Hendrick Motorsports
Between Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Terry Labonte, Mark Martin, Darrell Waltrip, and plenty more, Hendrick Motorsports has rostered some of the biggest names in NASCAR’s history.
The professional racing organization was founded by Rick Hendrick in 1984 and originally known as All Star Racing, and it’s enjoyed more success than any other team with a record-setting number of victories in the Cup Series and 18 drivers’ championships across the sport’s leading circuits.
Hendrick Motorsports fields four full-time cars in the Cup Series: the No. 5 Chevrolet driven by Kyle Larson, the No. 9 Chevrolet driven by Chase Elliott, the No. 24 Chevrolet driven by William Byron, and the No. 48 Chevrolet driven by Alex Bowman. Bowman, Byron, and Kyle Larson also compete under the Hendrick Motorsports umbrella in the Xfinity Series.
Last weekend’s Daytona 500, the official kickoff to the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, didn’t go as Chase Elliott wanted. While the outcome couldn’t have been any more favorable to Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports teammate William Byron, who captured his second consecutive win in The Great American Race, Elliott was an afterthought in the final analysis. […]
By any objective analysis, all the stars had to align perfectly for William Byron to win Sunday’s Daytona 500. But Byron, whose No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet was five rows back coming to the white flag, bristles at any suggestion that his second consecutive victory in The Great American Race was some kind of fluke. […]
When the green flag waves on Sunday’s Daytona 500, Joey Logano will be the only NASCAR Cup Series champion in the field with a Daytona 500 victory. Remarkably, the other five — and possibly six — champions will all be chasing their first Harley J. Earl Trophy. Before the engines fire in Central Florida to […]
No matter how you slice it, Sunday night’s Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium was a major success for NASCAR. Not only did fans pack the stands and the sport’s most popular driver score a popular win, but the participants got to sleep in their own beds — which rarely happens over the lengthy […]
Sunday night’s Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium might not have produced the best racing in the world, but many people watching in the stands and from home couldn’t have been more pleased with the outcome. That’s because the night — and, really, the entire weekend — belonged to NASCAR’s most popular driver, Chase […]
It’s been well over six years since Kasey Kahne competed in a NASCAR event. Forced to retire from competition earlier than planned because of lingering issues with dehydration, Kahne unexpectedly called it quits after a last-minute bow-out ahead of the 2018 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Since that time, Kahne has managed to fly […]
Set to embark on his third consecutive season as a part-time NASCAR Cup Series driver, Jimmie Johnson won’t compete in nearly as many races this year as he did in 2024. That’s the bad news for fans of the seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion. The good news? Johnson couldn’t have picked two better or more […]
In the weeks leading up to every new NASCAR Cup Series season, optimism abounds among those who will be sharing a race track from February through November. Ask just about any driver this time of year to offer a forecast for the upcoming season, and they’ll claim they’re “excited” about the possibilities. In reality, though, […]
Welcome to the new year and the unofficial start of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. Before the season gets officially underway with the Daytona 500 on February 16, here’s a handful of bold predictions about what’s going to unfold between now and early November. 1. Brad Keselowski Will Finally Win The Daytona 500 Keselowski […]
Over the past four seasons, one NASCAR Cup Series driver has stood tall above the rest in the win category. That driver is Kyle Larson, wheelman of the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. So, while a Team Penske driver has claimed the champion’s mantle in each of the three previous Cup Series seasons, Larson […]
