---
title: "Robby Gordon’s Father Among Two Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide"
description: "Gordon's father, Baja Bob Gordon, was a desert racing legend."
date: "2016-09-15"
modified: "2016-09-15"
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  - name: "Mike Guy"
    job_title: "Editor-at-Large"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/5204/robby-gordons-father-among-two-dead-in-apparent-murder-suicide"
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  - "Robby Gordon"
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---

# Robby Gordon’s Father Among Two Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide

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The father of former NASCAR legend Robby Gordon was found dead last night in an apparent murder-suicide involving Robert "Baja Bob" Gordon, [according to multiple sources](<https://www.foxsports.com/nascar/story/robby-gordon-s-parents-found-dead-in-california-home-091516>).

Police are investigating the deaths of the elder desert-racing legend, 69, and his wife, Sharon, 57. Their bodies were found in their Orange, California, home last night after a 5 p.m. 911 call. Police told multiple sources they were investigating the murder-suicide scenario, though they didn't specify how the two died.

Robby Gordon has has raced in NASCAR, CART, IndyCar, Trans-Am, IMSA, IROC and the Dakar Rally, and founded the Stadium Super Trucks racing, which is now known as the Speed Energy Formula Off-Road series, in 2013. Gordon's sister, Beccy, is married to IndyCar ace Ryan Hunter-Reay.

Baja Bob was a fixture in desert racing in the late 1970s and '80s and a two-time winner of the Baja 1000.

## Author
A former editor at *Details* and *Rolling Stone* and the digital director at *Maxim*, Mike Guy is a longtime contributor to *Road & Track*, *Playboy* and *Men's Journal*. His writing on motorsports is collected in the *Best American Sportswriting* anthology.

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