Hendrick Motorsports

Hendrick Motorsports is an American professional auto racing organization that competes in the NASCAR Cup Series.

The team has fielded cars in the past for many NASCAR drivers, including Hall of Famers Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, Terry Labonte, Darrell Waltrip, Benny Parsons, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, and others such as Geoff Bodine, Tim Richmond, Ricky Rudd, Ken Schrader, Ricky Craven, Jerry Nadeau, Joe Nemechek, Kyle Busch, Casey Mears, and Kasey Kahne.

[6][7][8] It was one of the first teams in NASCAR to be successful operating multiple entries, partly based on the model used at the Hendrick car dealerships.

At the 2021 Coca-Cola 600, Hendrick Motorsports became the winningest team in NASCAR Cup Series history when it won its 269th race with the No.

Toward the end of the season, Hendrick suddenly announced his retirement from driving due to lingering effects from the crash, but he remained as car owner until his death in 2004.

[17][18] Vickers won three races and the Busch Series championship, finishing just 14 points ahead of Hendrick test driver and former No.

As for Fernández, Feese, Reid, and Krisiloff, the 4 drivers driving the 5 car combined 21 starts scoring no wins, no top fives, and only one top ten with Fernández's 10th place run in Mexico along with a combined average finish of 31.2 and had 10 DNF's which made Rick Hendrick put his driver development program on hold.

5 on a part-time basis, sharing the ride with Mark Martin, Landon Cassill, Casey Mears, and Adrián Fernández, running a total of 26 races.

5 team moved to JR Motorsports in 2008,[23][18] and featured eight drivers, including Johnson and Earnhardt Jr., and four primary sponsors in its first year.

15 car for 17 races with sponsorship coming from Levi Garrett, with Cup Series driver Geoff Bodine running 12 of them.

17 in three Xfinity races in 2022, with Kyle Larson running at Road America, Alex Bowman at Indianapolis, and William Byron at Watkins Glen.

This marked Hendrick Motorsports' return to the Xfinity Series after Tony Stewart won for the team at Daytona in 2009.

[28] At the September Darlington race, Larson finished fifth after engaging in a three-car battle with Noah Gragson and Sheldon Creed over the closing laps.

17 in four Xfinity races in 2023, with Byron running at Circuit of the Americas, Larson at Sonoma and Darlington, and Bowman at Watkins Glen.

[33] The organization claimed their first win in the Xfinity Series since 2009 with Larson at the Circuit of the Americas after overtaking a dueling Shane van Gisbergen and Austin Hill on the final lap.

24 team started in 1999 with Gordon-Evernham Motorsports, owned by Jeff Gordon and crew chief Ray Evernham.

The car received sponsorship from GMAC company Ditech.com, and Busch scored three top tens including two-second-place finishes.

17 Craftsman Truck Series team made its debut in 2000 with Ricky Hendrick driving with GMAC/Quaker State sponsorship.

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.

In 2004, development drivers Blake Feese, Boston Reid, and Kyle Krisiloff ran a combined eight races in ARCA in the No.

Elliott made his debut at age 16 at Mobile International Speedway, scoring a pole and six top tens in six races.

Elliott, at age 17, became the youngest superspeedway winner in ARCA Racing Series history, beating fellow 17-year-old Erik Jones.

[64] Elliott ran the 2014 ARCA season opener at Daytona, in order to gain NASCAR approval to run the Nationwide Series race the next week.

[68][69] Cassill attempted three races (failing to qualify at Talladega) with two top ten starts but finishes of 38th at Kentucky and 32nd at Pocono.

[71] In 2005, Blake Feese ran the Daytona season opener in the 94 car, and was involved in a pit road crash that injured four photographers.

[73] (key) In 2023, Hendrick Motorsports entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans, working with NASCAR, Chevrolet, Goodyear, and IMSA to field a modified version of the Camaro Cup car in the experimental Garage 56 category.

Modifications included real headlights and taillights, a larger fuel tank, uprated carbon ceramic brakes, as well as new tyres developed by Goodyear.

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 (11 km) from the Blue Ridge Airport in Stuart, Virginia, after a failed attempt to land.

0 Haas CNC Racing car featured pictures of the crash victims on the hood, accompanied by the phrase "Always in our hearts".

Hendrick Motorsports race shop in Concord, North Carolina
Ricky Hendrick 's No. 5 GMAC Chevrolet in 2002
Casey Mears ' No. 24 National Guard Chevrolet at Homestead in 2007
Chase Elliott 's No. 94 Aaron's Chevrolet at Rockingham in 2013
Chase Elliott 's No. 9 Aaron's Chevrolet at Road America in 2013
Brian Vickers ' No. 25 Ditech/ GMAC Chevrolet, which pays tribute to the ten people killed in an October 2004 plane crash