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Podcast: NORTH CAROLINA SPORTS NETWORK
Episode: DAVID GLENN SHOW CLASSIC | Rick Hendrick #nascar #dalejr #williambyron #jimmiejohnson #chaseelliott
Description: Rick Hendrick is a self-described "gearhead" who turned his passion for the automobile into successful business ventures in the retail automotive and professional auto racing industries.
Raised on a tobacco farm near the small community of Palmer Springs, Virginia, Hendrick worked on and raced cars as a young man. Alongside his father, "Papa Joe," he rebuilt his first car, a 1931 Chevrolet, at age 14 and regularly traveled to racetracks across the region, often volunteering as a crew member. After high school, he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, to pursue a co-op program with North Carolina State University and Westinghouse Electric...