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Hendrick Motorsports 40 Years

NASCAR Racing’s Greatest Team Celebrates Four Decades
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"Spanning forty years and more than three hundred victories, the contributions of countless people have built Hendrick Motorsports into the greatest team in NASCAR history. This book is made up of their stories." - Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, from the foreword Celebrate the NASCAR-champion team's... Read More
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Hendrick Motorsports 40 YearsΒ celebrates the NASCAR-champion team's 40th anniversary in competition. Forty stories from the 1980s to today relate the team's full history in this officially licensed book.
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"Spanning forty years and more than three hundred victories, the contributions of countless people have built Hendrick Motorsports into the greatest team in NASCAR history. This book is made up of their stories." - Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon, from the foreword

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 retail automotive business to launch NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports in 1984. Over the ensuing four decades, it has become one of the most successful and high-profile teams in the sport's long history. Competing in the elite NASCAR Cup Series, as of 2023, the team had posted the most points-paying wins and the most championships.

Hendrick Motorsports' driver roster is a who's who of the sport's greats, including NASCAR Hall of Famers Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Terry Labonte, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Today 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: 40 Years relates the team's incredible history through 40 stories focused on team milestones since its founding in 1984. Stories and highlights include:

  • The first win at Martinsville that saved the team
  • Involvement with the motion picture "Days of Thunder"
  • The dominance of Jeff Gordon and the Rainbow Warriors
  • The team's historic 1-2-3 finish at the 1997 DAYTONA 500
  • The record-tying seven championships of Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus
  • Hendrick Motorsports and the Earnhardts
  • Becoming the first team to reach 300 wins at NASCAR's highest level
  • The ground-breaking Garage 56 Le Mans program

Authored by long-time NASCAR journalist Ben White, with a foreword by Jeff Gordon and afterword by Rick Hendrick, the 200-page book includes images from top NASCAR photographer Nigel Kinrade and from Hendrick Motorsport's archive. As the official 40th anniversary book covering the team's entire history, Hendrick Motorsports: 40 Years is the ideal retrospective.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760391235

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 November 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Motorbooks

Illustration: color & b-w photos

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Jeff Gordon
  • Afterword by Rick Hendrick

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 235.0mm

Height: 270.0mm

Weight: 1238g

Pages: 200

About the Author

Ben White attended his first NASCAR Cup Series race in 1972 at Darlington, South Carolina, at age 11. The Clinton, North Carolina, native drove his own race cars on a few local short tracks in the late 1970s before joining Richard Childress Racing as a crew member in 1980. White turned his attention to writing about NASCAR in 1983 for the Lexington Dispatch (North Carolina) newspaper, and he continues to write for that publication today, as well as North Carolina newspapers in Fayetteville, Kinston, Burlington, and Asheboro.Β From 1989 until 2010, he served as staff writer, managing editor, and senior editor of NASCAR Illustrated Magazine and managing editor of the American Racing Classics book series from 1991 to 1994. White has authored numerous NASCAR books including Motorbooks' NASCAR Then and Now, NASCAR Racers, NASCAR Legends, and 20 Years of Hendrick Motorsports. White resides in Salisbury, NC.

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