Celebrate the NASCAR-champion team’s 40th anniversary with this officially licensed history featuring stunning photography, including rare images from the Hendrick Motorsports archive.

Rick Hendrick built on a successful career in the automotive-retail business to launch NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports in 1984Over the ensuing four decades, it has become one of the most successful and high-profile teams in the sport’s long history. Competing across NASCAR’s three race series, as of 2023, the team had posted the most Cup wins of any team (301) and the most Driver’s Championships (18).
 
Hendrick’s driver roster is a who’s who of the sport’s greats, including Champion drivers Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Terry Labonte, and Dale Earnhardt JrToday the team fields four drivers: William Byron, Alex Bowman, and Cup champions Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson. Hendrick Motorsports even fielded a team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023!
 
Hendrick Motorsports relates the team’s incredible history through 40 stories focused on team milestones since its founding in 1984Stories and highlights include:
 

• First win at Martinsville
• Days of Thunder involvement
• Jeff Gordon and the Rainbow Warriors
• 1-2-3 Finish at the 1997 Daytona 500
• The seven championships of Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus
• Hendrick Motorsports and the Earnhardts
• Reaching 300 Wins at NASCAR''s highest level
• Garage 56 Le Mans program

Authored by long-time NASCAR journalist Ben White and illustrated with images from top NASCAR photographer Nigel Kinrade as well as photos from Hendrick Motorsport’s archive, Hendrick Motorsports offers the ideal 40th anniversary retrospective.

Format Inbunden Omfång 200 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Utgivningsdatum 2024-11-07 ISBN 9780760391235