The beat goes on (and on) for the No. 1 team in the history of NASCAR Cup competition.
Rick Hendrick and driver William Byron celebrate No. 300 for the team on Sunday in Texas.As usual, “Mr. H” said all the right things. “Three-hundred is such a milestone,” he said after Byron led only the final six laps in the first race of Round 2 of the Playoffs. “When you put that distance on Petty’s record by a pretty good margin and at the rate we’re going, we’re just adding to it. young drivers and young crew chiefs, and Jeff Gordon is here helping.
Chevrolet-based company has gotten 51 victories from its current lineup of Chase Elliott , Kyle Larson , Byron , and Alex Bowman . The late Tim Richmond added 9 victories, Bodine 7 , Kasey Kahne 6, Mark Martin 5, and Ricky Rudd, Kyle Busch, and Ken Schrader, 4 each. “That 268 was in my brain for a long time and I didn’t think we could ever get there,” Hendrick recalled. “I owe it all to the people here and the drivers along the way. It’s unbelievable to be at 300. I think about that Martinsville race all the time. Had we not won that race there wouldn’t be a Hendrick Motorsports and we wouldn’t be at 300 wins. I'm very, very thankful for that.
“Winning 300 races was never a goal,” Hendrick said. “The goal was to tie and then beat Petty's record … but I never thought we’d get there. We started counting down until we broke that record. Once we got there, everybody started looking at 300. But we didn’t start talking much about 300 until we got to 299 .Al PearceUnemployed after three years as an Army officer and Vietnam vet, Al Pearce shamelessly lied his way onto a small newspaper’s sports staff in Virginia in 1969.
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