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Rick Hendrick released from hospital
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Rick Hendrick was released Monday afternoon from a hospital in North Carolina after a six-day stay following a crash landing of his plane in Key West, Fla. The Hendrick Motorsports owner has four broken ribs and a broken clavicle from the Oct. 31 accident, which occurred when the brakes failed on the team’s plane. The plane crossed a 600-foot overrun, impacted the far side of a ditch, crossed a dirt road, cleared … Read entire article »
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Jeff Gordon prepared to help get Dale Earnhardt Jr. in Chase
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service RICHMOND, Va.—Within limits, Jeff Gordon and his Hendrick Motorsports teammates will do all they can to help Dale Earnhardt Jr. clinch a spot in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. “It’s very important for us at Hendrick Motorsports to get him in the Chase, not just because he’s Junior, but because we want to get as many of our teams into that Chase as possible,” Gordon told Sporting News … Read entire article »
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. happy to avoid hassles in a contract year
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service HAMPTON, Ga.—Dale Earnhardt Jr. and team owner Rick Hendrick had a meeting of the minds—neither wanted to postpone Earnhardt’s contract extension with Hendrick Motorsports and invite questions and distractions next season. So they got the deal done a year early. Earnhardt, in the fourth year of a five-year deal with Hendrick, earlier this week announced a five-year extension that will keep him in a Hendrick Chevrolet through 2017. “I’m happy that it … Read entire article »
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. signs five-year extension with Hendrick Motorsports
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Dale Earnhardt Jr. has signed a five-year contract that will keep him behind the wheel of a Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet through 2017, the organization announced Thursday. “We’re excited to have everything formalized and announced,” team owner Rick Hendrick said in a statement announcing the agreement. “Junior and I had a handshake agreement months ago, and we let other people work out the finer points from there. It was as simple … Read entire article »
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.: I’m too nice to negotiate
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service LONG POND, Pa.—Dale Earnhardt Jr. acknowledges he’s making progress in negotiating a contract extension with Hendrick Motorsports—but, unlike Carl Edwards, Earnhardt would prefer to stay as far away from the process as possible. Edwards, who just re-signed with Roush Fenway Racing, negotiates his own contracts, down to the minutiae. Not Earnhardt. “I really don’t get involved in my negotiations too much, because I’m too nice,” Earnhardt said. “I had to send … Read entire article »
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Farmers Insurance Partners with Hendrick Motorsports
CONCORD, N.C. – Farmers Insurance has joined Hendrick Motorsports as a five-race primary sponsor of the Chevrolets driven by Mark Martin in the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, with plans to kick off the relationship by fielding a special “throwback” paint scheme. The agreement secures primary placement for Farmers Insurance in five events and associate-level sponsorship on Martin’s cars throughout the remainder of this season. The NASCAR team sponsorship is the first for Los Angeles-based Farmers since February 2009, when it executed a one-race program at Fontana, Calif. “This partnership makes a lot of sense for Farmers,” said Paul Patsis, president of Enterprise Marketing for Farmers Insurance. “NASCAR fans are among the sports world’s most loyal and passionate. This is a great opportunity to show them why Farmers is an industry … Read entire article »
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Can Dale Earnhardt Jr. finally turn things around at Hendrick?
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Another season, another cameo. Another Miss Congeniality award to Jimmie Johnson’s Miss America. Another undercard to the main event. It wasn’t performance on the racetrack that brought Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Las Vegas in early December. It was an Internet fan vote that confirmed him as the Sprint Cup Series’ most popular driver for the eighth straight year. Earnhardt’s brief, barely-short-of-sheepish appearance at an annual awards luncheon came some 30 hours before the meat of the Cup awards program—the banquet that honors those who won and contended for championships, those who rewarded their fans with checkered flags. The ceremony came nine days after team owner Rick Hendrick pulled the trigger on radical changes that, among other things, will pair Earnhardt with his third crew chief in four seasons at … Read entire article »
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Four-Time May Take The Fifth With New Crew Chief
Guest Column By Cathy Elliott Anyone who still believes NASCAR has an off-season hasn’t been listening to the news. Just three days after the organization won its fifth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship with driver Jimmie Johnson, Hurricane Hendrick flattened the racing community. Hendrick Motorsports announced that three of its four Cup Series superstars would be working with new crew chiefs next year. Jeff Gordon will work with Alan Gustafson and the former No. 5 team, while Mark Martin will move over to the former No. 88 team to work with Lance McGrew. There will be no change for Jimmie Johnson, who will remain with Chad Knaus. And Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s new home will be in the former No. 24 shop, as he is paired up with Steve Letarte in 2011. The crew members, … Read entire article »
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Based on personalities, changes at Hendrick could work
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Was that Rick Hendrick or Richard Childress on Wednesday morning’s media conference call? It was a prominent NASCAR Sprint Cup car owner, that’s certain. It was a car owner who okayed a late-season pit-crew change—in the middle of a race. It was a car owner who had just announced a wholesale realignment of drivers and crew chiefs, one involving three of his four Cup teams. It was a car owner who said his cars aren’t where they need to be, but whose teams had shown improvement toward the end of the season. Sound familiar? It was Richard Childress at the end of 2009. Right now, however, it really is Rick Hendrick. Forget that Hendrick just won a fifth straight championship with driver Jimmie Johnson. The other three teams at … Read entire article »
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