Another Hendrick Team: Hendrick Motorsports will field a fifth Winston Cup team next season in at least four races, team owner Rick Hendrick said Friday. Hendrick made the announcement at the company’s year-end gathering at its shops in Harrisburg. David Green, who drove several races for one of Hendrick’s Grand National teams this season, will drive the #60 Chevy [Jack Sprague’s team will run the #0 Pontiac in 2003] in at least the four superspeedway races in 2003, including the season opener at Daytona. The new team will be led by Gary DeHart, who heads Hendrick’s research and development program and is a former crew chief for Hendrick driver Terry Labonte. “You know, every year I’ve tried this and it has ended up turning into a new team because somebody has come along and it’s worked out,” Hendrick said. “But we thought about it this year and all the crew chiefs talked about it. Gary started our first R&D department. He built our first chassis back in 1988 and he’s always built a really slick car. We felt like that’s where we would dedicate our efforts, to the superspeedways.” Hendrick already fields four full-time teams, with drivers #24-Jeff Gordon, #48-Jimmie Johnson, #5-Terry Labonte and #25-Joe Nemechek.(ThatsRacin.com)(12-21-2002)
