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By Leon, on April 13th, 2010%
(photo courtesy Jason Smith/Getty Images)
Kasey Kahne will leave Richard Petty Motorsports at the end of the 2010 season. More importantly Kahne will drive the #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevy, but not until after Mark Martin retires at the end of the 2011 season. So beginning with the start of the 2012 season, . . . → Read More: Kasey Kahne Jumps To Hendrick Motorsports
By Leon, on March 29th, 2010%
Jeff Gordon pulling into the garage area at Atlanta (photo courtesy Leon Hammack)
A Forbes’ report released Wednesday shows NASCAR’s top team, Hendrick Motorsports, is worth $350 million. But the report claims the average team value has declined $5 million over the past year. Forbes magazine annual rankings show that Hendrick Motorsports . . . → Read More: NASCAR Team Values Drop Except Hendrick Motorsports
By Leon, on February 6th, 2010%
(photo courtesy Jason Smith/Getty Images)
Apparently Mark Martin’s fairy tale 2009 season was no fluke! However, it appears that Dale Earnhardt, Jr.’s horrendous 2009 season was just that, a fluke! Likewise it appears that Hendrick Motorsports is the team to contend with again in 2010! That is the case if the 2010 . . . → Read More: Mark Martin: Daytona 500 Polesitter
By Leon, on January 25th, 2010%
( l-r, Denny Hamlin, Brad Coleman, Joey Logano, and Kyle Busch photo courtesy Jason Smith/Getty Images)
Arguably Hendrick Motorsports has been the most dominate and successful race team in NASCAR for the last 15 years. HMS has set the bar extremely high for every other Sprint Cup team to try to attain, winning . . . → Read More: Is Joe Gibbs Racing The Future Of NASCAR?
By Leon, on January 23rd, 2010%
(photo courtesy Leon Hammack)
The phone conversation between NASCAR team owner, Rick Hendrick, and crew chief Alan Gustafson was brief and to the point.
“Hey man,” Gustafson said Hendrick told him,” the 88 has got to run good, capiche?” “Sure thing, boss.”
Hendrick Motorsports, clearly the most successful race team in NASCAR, . . . → Read More: Hendrick Makes Rebuilding Junior’s Team A Priority
By Leon, on December 28th, 2009%
(photo courtesy Leon Hammack)
Almost as impressive as the Hendrick Motorsports 1-2-3 finish in the 2009 Chase points standings was the total absence from the lead group of Dale Earnhardt, Jr., HMS fourth driver. While Jimmie Johnson was busy celebrating the team’s fourth consecutive championship and Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon were . . . → Read More: Junior [Under] Achievement
By Leon, on November 20th, 2009%
(photo courtesy Jason Smith/Getty Images)
Team owner, Rick Hendrick, has announced that Lowe’s has re-upped their contract through the 2013 season, thus enabling the #48 team to continue together for four more years. This proclamation comes on the cusp of Hendrick Motorsports, almost certain, ninth NASCAR championship, and the #48 Lowe’s Chevy’s . . . → Read More: Johnson Signs A Contract Extension
By Leon, on October 29th, 2009%
(photo courtesy Hendrick PR)
What does Rick Hendrick possess that none of the other owners have? How are his race teams able to perform at such a continuously high level? What is the magic piece to the puzzle?
Three of his four NASCAR race teams are fighting for the 2009 Sprint . . . → Read More: Hendrick Motorsports Magic?
By Leon, on October 28th, 2009%
(photo courtesy of nascar)
Over the last three seasons there has been a running debate over just what has happened to Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Where did the “glory days’ run off to? Who is responsible for the total lackluster performance of the, then #8 Budweiser team, and now the HMS #88 AMP/National . . . → Read More: Has Dale Jr Lost His Mojo?
By Leon, on October 20th, 2009%
(photo courtesy of Leon Hammack)
It has been five years since that fateful foggy Sunday afternoon on October 24, 2004. A Beechcraft Super King Air 200 airplane, owned by Hendrick Motorsports, bound for the Martinsville racetrack crashed while trying to land at the Martinsville airport.
There were no survivors. Lost in the . . . → Read More: Martinsville Five Years Later
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