Jeff Gordon has established himself to be the most dominant road course racer in NASCAR.

However on Sunday, Gordon did not seem to be performing in his usual cut throat fashion in the Centurion Boats at The Glen.

With high expectations heading into the event, the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports team crossed the finish line in a lackluster 29th place on Sunday afternoon at Watkins Glen International after starting the race in the sixth position.

The first of his troubles came when his radio began acting up, haltering the teams communication.

"We lost probably about 15 seconds on that; probably 20 total because there were guys coming in to pit earlier and we needed to pit," Gordon said. "[Crew chief] Steve [Letarte] was trying to tell me to pit and I had no idea. We just had a loose connection and finally they black-flagged me. But even while I was out there I was trying to fix it and I lost even more time doing that. And so we finally got in there and shoot, we came out and we were like 30th, you know. The car was a struggle already and the last thing we needed was to lose that much track position."

Gordon has troubles swallowing the happenings on Sunday. Gordon noted, that you can’t point a finger at any one person.

Gordon has not had the best season of his career so far, but has somehow done good enough to hold a spot in the Top-12.

"I can't believe we are where we are in the points, to be honest with you," he said. "If it weren't for us having such an awesome team, we wouldn't be where we are. As a team, we know we've got to get the cars running better too. At Indianapolis it was exciting and it was great to be running up front. But it was one of those weird, crazy races.

"But I really feel like we've been gaining on our 1.5-mile program but we have absolutely missed our road-course program. And we even went and tested and I thought we were going to be pretty good. We were good on our short runs in testing and here, but we just didn't make enough long runs and that's what we're going to have to work on."