#Rick Hendrick

America's biggest form of motorsport, NASCAR, is very traditional. There's a staid way of doing things and, even if the unexpected occurs every now and then, the rule of thumb is that the powerhouse teams always win. What doesn't happen is a start-up operation arrives at its top level, bragging a co-owner who's a Grammy Award-winning megastar. It…

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Ross Chastain skyrocketed to motorsports infamy for wall-riding his way into NASCAR's championship race with a video-game style move that has overshadowed the finale and his fellow title contenders. With that comes a ton of pressure on the eighth-generation Florida watermelon farmer and journeyman NASCAR driver who once took…

Jimmie Johnson was targeting "Bucket list" races. Everything from the Indy 500, Rolex 24, Daytona 500, Coke 600, Le Mans, Chili Bowl, the NASCAR All-Star race, all of it. And notably, Johnson didn't appear to have any sort of priority list. After a year of learning the hard way that his calendar would be far too full for a self-described family man…

She's the big sister who's now the big boss. Kelley Earnhardt Miller sits at the top of the organizational pyramid of JR Motorsports, one of NASCAR's spotlighted operations. As chief executive officer of the web of companies owned or partially owned by retired driver and auto racing guru Dale Earnhardt Jr. , Kelley has her hands in virtually…

Rick Hendrick. Joe Gibbs. Roger Penske. Justin Marks? One of those four team owners certainly doesn't belong when it comes to success and experience at the NASCAR Cup Series championship level, but external expectations haven't meant a whole lot to Marks, co-owner of Trackhouse Racing alongside Miami-area rapper Pitbull. Their outfit has crashed…

CONCORD, N.C. - The first racing book Justin Marks ever read was called "The Unfair Advantage," written during a one-year sabbatical by the late Mark Donohue about his boss Roger Penske. Marks grew up in admiration of Penske, Rick Hendrick and Joe Gibbs, the top owners in American motorsports. When he was 15, Marks got his picture taken with Gibbs…

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) - William Byron had a freight train in his rearview mirror. A sitting duck, it seemed. Fortunately for him, all those challengers started jostling against each other rather than working together to take down the leader. While Byron cruised to the checkered flag for the third victory of his NASCAR Cup career, one last…