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The magic number is 269, and four drivers have a vested interest in getting there.
Hendrick Motorsports next NASCAR Cup Series victory will be the organization s 269th and will break a tie with Petty Enterprises for most all-time. That tie that has existed for one week, since reigning series champion Chase Elliott picked up the 268th win for HMS last Sunday at Circuit of The Americas.
Hendrick s first opportunity for the record triumph comes Sunday in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway (6 p.m. ET on FOX, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Elliott is the most recent winner at the 1.5-mile intermediate track, having taken the checkered flag on May 28, 2020, four days after the running of the 2020 Coke 600.
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Hendrick Motorsport teams up with GM Defense.
GM Defense, a subsidiary of General Motors, opened its new state-of-the-art production facility last week in Concord, North Carolina - just a two hours drive from the US Army s Fort Bragg. It also named its new president, Steve duMont, whose previous gig was 13 years at Raytheon Intelligence & Space. Last summer, GM Defense won a contract from the US government worth over $200 million to build 649 units of the next-generation Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV), which is based on the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2.
One of the key reasons why the ISV beat out proposals from rival defense manufacturers is because GM Defense said it could build a lightweight vehicle, something that ll be fast on the battlefield and can be transported there with ease by a Blackhawk helicopter. Enter Rick Hendrick and his company, Hendrick Motorsport.