Hendrick Motorsports won 10 Nascar Cup Series championships.
The three drivers that won the titles were Terry Labonte(1996), Jeff Gordon (1995, 1997, 1998, 2001) and Jimmie Johnson (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010).
Hendrick Motorsports fields four race cars in the Nascar Sprint Cup Series.
The popular story is that while driving in the 2000 Busch Series (now known as the Nationwide Series) for Herzog Motorsports, Jimmie asked fellow Nascar driver Jeff Gordon's advice on a subject at a drivers meeting. The two became friends, and Hendrick Motorsports, on Jeff Gordon's recommendation, offered Jimmie a driver development deal with a potential for advancing in 2002. In 2002, Jimmie became a full time driver in the Cup Series for Hendrick Motorsports. What the popular story omits is the role GM racing head Herb Fishel played in getting Johnson into stock cars to begin with, with the goal of eventually elevating him to Hendrick Motorsports, the "works" team of Chevrolet in NASCAR circles.
Hendrick Motorsports builds their own cars and engines at their own motor shop for their race teams.
Hendrick Motorsports supplies Tony Stewart's Sprint Cup Series car engines.
In the Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Dale Jr. drives the #88 car with the National Guard and Diet Mountain Dew as his primary sponsors. In the Natiionwide Series, he is the co-owner of JR Motorsports, which fields three cars, the #5, #7 and the #88.
Richard Petty was a Nascar Cup Series driver for 35 years. He is now a co-owner of Richard Petty Motorsports, which fields two Nascar Sprint Cup Series cars.
No. Tony Stewart and Gene Haas co-own the #14 and #39 cars. Hendrick Motorsports supply the engines for Stewart Haas Racing.
In the Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Kyle Busch drives for Joe Gibbs Racing, which is owned by former NFL head coach Joe Gibbs.Kyle Busch Motorsports is the team he owns personally, which fields cars in both the Nascar Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series.
The Nascar Cup Series fields 43 drivers at every race they go to on the schedule.
The teams are always selling used race cars for use in lower NASCAR racing classes. If you want something more new, without shelling out all that dough for a shop, equiptment, research, and so on, most of the teams would be happy to take care of your needs, provided, you have the cash, and the talent to pilot it. I think Hendrick still offers a rental program, where, he will rent you a car that will more than qualify, and, I think he will even rent you a team to pit it, and a tuner to fine tune it. That would be my choice. A proven winner, and you return it until the next race. What more could any racer want?!
No mustangs are not used in nascar the cars in nascar are the "official stock car of nascar"
He drove sprint cars before NASCAR. I think he did so well with sprint cars, someone noticed him and offered a job to race stock in the NASCAR Nationwide Series (then it was called the Busch Series) and moved up to Sprint Cup.
All race cars in the top 3 nascar touring series have 4 speed transmissions.