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Jeff Gordon and Ingrid Vandebosch Welcome a Son

Ingrid Vandebosch and Jeff Gordon attend the Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 3, 2010, in New York. Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images

NEW YORK (CBS) It's a boy for race car driver Jeff Gordon and wife Ingrid Vandebosch.

The couple welcomed son Leo Benjamin on Monday at 8:53 a.m. He weighed 7 lbs, 2 oz., and measured 19 inches long.

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"He's happy and healthy, and Mom is doing great," Gordon wrote on his website.

He and Vandebosch are also parents to 3-year-old daughter Ella Sophia.

They announced they were expecting their second child in February.

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