cars: Hendrick honda

Sunday, 8 July 2012

Hendrick honda

Joseph Riddick Hendrick III (born July 12, 1949), better known as Rick Hendrick, is the current owner of the American NASCAR team, Hendrick Motorsports and founder of the Hendrick Automotive Group and Hendrick Marrow Program. He attended Park View High School in South Hill, Virginia, and began his career in auto racing at age 14. He is also a retired race car driver himself, driving in only three NASCAR races throughout the course of his NASCAR career.Hendrick, born on July 12, 1949 in Warrenton, North Carolina, was raised on his family's farm.^[1] Hendrick, at the age of 14, began drag racing in a self built 1931 Chevrolet. Two years later, at age 16, Hendrick won the Virginia division of the Chrysler-Plymouth Troubleshooting Contest, a two-part test consisting of a written exam and a timed hands-on diagnosis and repair of defects planted on a car.