Hendrick Motorsports - Wikipedia.com
Hendrick Motorsports is a stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The team is principally owned by Rick Hendrick, but Jeff Gordon and Mary Hendrick are listed as the owners of the #48 and #5 respectively. One of stock car racing's premier organizations, Hendrick Motorsports has garnered eight Sprint Cup Series championships, three Camping World Truck Series titles, one Nationwide Series crown, 175 Sprint Cup Series victories, 29 Nationwide Series wins, and 25 Camping World Truck Series victories.
The team will field five Sprint Cup Series cars in 2009, including the #5 Kellogg's/Carquest Chevrolet Impala for Mark Martin, the #24 DuPont/National Guard/Pepsi Chevrolet Impala for four time Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon, the #25 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet Impala part-time for Brad Keselowski, the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet Impala for three time and defending Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, and the #88 National Guard/AMP Energy Chevrolet Impala for Dale Earnhardt, Jr., marking the 25th anniversary of Hendrick Motorsports.
All Hendrick race cars are constructed start-to-finish at the 100-plus acre Hendrick Motorsports complex in Concord, North Carolina. More than 550 engines are built or re-built on-site each year, with the team leasing some of those to other NASCAR outfits. Hendrick Motorsports employs over 500 people that perform many day-to-day activities.
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