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Hendrick Motorsports is a group of NASCAR racing teams started by Rick Hendrick in 1984 under the name "All Star Racing", racing only Chevrolets, racing in both the Nextel Cup and Busch Series circuits. Hendrick Motorsports has garnered... [more]
Hendrick Motorsports is a group of NASCAR racing teams started by Rick Hendrick in 1984 under the name "All Star Racing", racing only Chevrolets, racing in both the Nextel Cup and Busch Series circuits. Hendrick Motorsports has garnered six Cup Series championships, three Craftsman Truck Series titles, and one Busch Series crown, making it one of stock-car racing’s premier organizations.
There has been talk that after this Sprint Cup series is over Kyle Busch will be solidified in Nascar racing schedule history if he can get 13 season wins. There have only been two other drivers to accomplish this and they are nothing short of house hold names in Nascar friendly families, Petty and Gordon. Busch has already won 7 of his Nascar racing schedule appearances this season and is on pace to make or break the record. With over two hundred points above second place Dale Earnhardt Jr...
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Martinsville Let me start this post by saying, "Martinsville was just about all I hoped it would be and more!" Except the ending! As an Earnhardt fan, I would be lying to you if I said I wasn't dissapointed with the end result. I'll be honest and confess I turn into some naive big kid when I see my team dominate in a race as they did in Martinsville! I just want that magical ending to finish it off! Texas Gang, what a year this is that I could find myself dissapointed with 6th place...
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Stop sweating the other Junior By Jerry Bonkowski, Yahoo! Sports Mar 19, 9:32 pm EDT Tony Eury Jr. talks strategy w… Getty Images - Feb 29, 5:00 pm EST Dale Earnhardt Jr. is fifth in the standings, far ahead of his...
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Hendrick's slump Everybody is worried about Hendrick! They are in a slump and something is wrong! Folks, I just have one thing to say about that, "April Fools!" Before I continue this blog, let's just mention that Dale Earnhardt Jr is 5th in points, Jeff & Jimmie 13th-14th, & Casey 33rd. To go further let's put it in context just a bit. The context (a little background) First of all, every year we find Hendrick's in the game! At the same time every year looks different, but the one...
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kyle busch, leader of la revolucion, won ANOTHER race, this time the Coke Zero 400, a thriller featuring extra laps, a last lap pile up and a neck and neck finish.
busch, the world’s best stock car driver and the man you dale earnhardt jr sycophants (it really is a word, rednecks, lookerup) love to hate, overcame beaucoup problems with his car to nip carl “the carl” edwards when the field was frozen during a final lap caution.
dale earnhardt, jr….as is his tradition, finished in the top ten...
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Craftsman Truck Series, information from Wikipedia.org
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Truck #17 history
The 17 Craftsman Truck Series team made its debut in 2000 with Ricky Hendrick driving with GMAC/Quaker State sponsorship. He made six races that season and finished in the top-ten four times. In 2001, Hendrick won his only career Truck race at Kansas Speedway and finished sixth in points, runner-up to Travis Kvapil for Rookie of the Year honors. The team did not run after 2001.
Truck #24 history
The 24 truck debuted with the Truck Series in 1995 with Scott Lagasse driving and DuPont sponsoring. Lagasse posted two top-fives and finished ninth in the standings. The team also fielded the 25 Budweiser Chevrolet part-time with Hendrick Sr. and Roger Mears driving. Midway through the season, Jack Sprague came on board to finish out the season for the team, winning a pole at Phoenix International Raceway. In 1996, he moved to the 24 full-time with Quaker State sponsoring. He won five races and was second in the points. The following season, he won three times and clinched his first NASCAR championship.
The team lost the Quaker State sponsorship after 1997, but signed GMAC Financial as a sponsor after a one-race deal with Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce. He won an additional five races, but lost the championship by three points. In 1999, Sprague won the championship again but fell to fifth in 2000. In 2001, NetZero came on board as the team's sponsor, and Sprague won his third championship. After Sprague moved to the Busch Series, Ron Hornaday drove the 24 in a one-race deal at Daytona, finishing twelfth. The team closed after that race to focus on its Busch Series efforts.
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Truck #17 history
The 17 Craftsman Truck Series team made its debut in 2000 with Ricky Hendrick driving with GMAC/Quaker State sponsorship. He made six races that season and finished in the top-ten four times. In 2001, Hendrick won his only career Truck race at Kansas Speedway and finished sixth in points, runner-up to Travis Kvapil for Rookie of the Year honors. The team did not run after 2001.
Truck #24 history
The 24 truck debuted with the Truck Series in 1995 with Scott Lagasse driving and DuPont sponsoring. Lagasse posted two top-fives and finished ninth in the standings. The team also fielded the 25 Budweiser Chevrolet part-time with Hendrick Sr. and Roger Mears driving. Midway through the season, Jack Sprague came on board to finish out the season for the team, winning a pole at Phoenix International Raceway. In 1996, he moved to the 24 full-time with Quaker State sponsoring. He won five races and was second in the points. The following season, he won three times and clinched his first NASCAR championship.
The team lost the Quaker State sponsorship after 1997, but signed GMAC Financial as a sponsor after a one-race deal with Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce. He won an additional five races, but lost the championship by three points. In 1999, Sprague won the championship again but fell to fifth in 2000. In 2001, NetZero came on board as the team's sponsor, and Sprague won his third championship. After Sprague moved to the Busch Series, Ron Hornaday drove the 24 in a one-race deal at Daytona, finishing twelfth. The team closed after that race to focus on its Busch Series efforts.
Do not adjust your televisions or medications tonight. Because yes, that will be a Craftsman Truck series race on a Wednesday night. Yes, that will be Jimmie Johnson driving a truck. And yes, Johnson will be driving a truck owned by Randy Moss.
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' The NASCAR Nationwide Series, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and IndyCar Series will be in action on the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway tri-oval in 2009.
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BRISTOL — Johnny Benson will be chasing history at Bristol Motor Speedway tonight, and he’ll have a couple of big names chasing him. Aaron’s 150, 5:45 p.m. O’Reilly 200, 8 p.m. (Speed TV) Benson has won three Craftsman Truck Series races in a ...
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BROOKLYN, Mich. - Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports team gambled for track position when he stayed on the track with 20 laps to go. A few laps later, his day was all but done when he slammed the Turn 2 wall.
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Wondering if Joe Gibbs Racing's cheating scandal will mar Kyle Busch's spectacular season? Heck no, say Pete Pistone and Brian De Los Santos, who also applaud NASCAR's tweaks to the '09 Cup schedulein Feud of the Week.
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BROOKLYN, Mich. - When Dale Earnhardt Jr. won at Michigan International Speedway on June 15, much of the world seemed right for the Hendrick Motorsports driver.
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Jimmie Johnson makes Truck debut at Bristol Reigning back-to-back NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson will make his Craftsman Truck Series debut on Wednesday night at Bristol Motor Speedway as he pilots the No. 81 Kobalt Tools Chevrolet ...
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All Dale Earnhardt Jr. could do was shake his head and lament what might have been. The winner of the June race at Michigan International Speedway, appeared on the way to a top-five finish despite an ill-handling car in Sunday's 3M Performance 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race. But his Hendrick...
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Do not adjust your televisions or medications tonight. Because yes, that will be a Craftsman Truck series race on a Wednesday night. Yes, that will be Jimmie Johnson driving a truck. And yes, Johnson will be driving a truck owned by Randy Moss. Yes ...
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Two-time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson makes his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut for Randy Moss Motorsports Wednesday at Bristol Motor Speedway (8 p.m. ET live on SPEED; NCTS Setup with Krista Voda at 7:30 p.m. ET ...
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On October 24, 2004, ten people associated with Hendrick Motorsports lost their lives in a plane crash while en route from Concord North Carolina, to a small airport near the Martinsville Speedway. The plane crashed in heavy fog into Bull Mountain, seven miles from the Blue Ridge Regional Airport in Spencer, Virginia. While NASCAR officials learned of the crash during that day's Subway 500 race in Martinsville, they withheld that information from drivers until the end of the race. Hendrick driver Jimmie Johnson won the race.
All ten aboard the Beechcraft King Air 200 died:
* John Hendrick, president of Hendrick Motorsports; Rick Hendrick's brother
* Ricky Hendrick, Rick Hendrick's son
* Kimberly and Jennifer Hendrick, John Hendrick's twin daughters
* Jeff Turner, general manager of Hendrick Motorsports
* Randy Dorton, chief engine builder
* Joe Jackson, DuPont executive
* Scott Lathram, pilot for NASCAR driver Tony Stewart
* pilots Richard Tracy and Elizabeth Morrison
For the balance of the 2004 season, all of the Hendrick Motorsports cars and the #0 Haas CNC Racing car showed pictures of the ten Hendrick members on the hood.
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All ten aboard the Beechcraft King Air 200 died:
* John Hendrick, president of Hendrick Motorsports; Rick Hendrick's brother
* Ricky Hendrick, Rick Hendrick's son
* Kimberly and Jennifer Hendrick, John Hendrick's twin daughters
* Jeff Turner, general manager of Hendrick Motorsports
* Randy Dorton, chief engine builder
* Joe Jackson, DuPont executive
* Scott Lathram, pilot for NASCAR driver Tony Stewart
* pilots Richard Tracy and Elizabeth Morrison
For the balance of the 2004 season, all of the Hendrick Motorsports cars and the #0 Haas CNC Racing car showed pictures of the ten Hendrick members on the hood.
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