What set the foundation for Hendrick Motorsports’ current success in NASCAR

Hendrick Motorsports is on a roll in the 2025 Cup season. An integr♐al member of the team reveals what separates the team from its rivals.

Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports
Kyle Larson, Hendrick Motorsports
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Hendrick's ‘open book’ approach to data-sharing has been key to its current success in the NASCAR Cup Series, according to Kyle Larson’s෴ crew chief Cliff Daniels.

Hendrick Motorsports is the most successful team of all time in the Cup♑ Series, boasting 316 race wins and 14 titles.

This year, all four Hendrick drivers sit inside the top eight in the standings, with Kyle Larson leading the way from teammate William Byron after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:scoring h🧸is third victory of the season in Kansas last weekend.

While other teams on the grid have also enjoyed plenty of success, Hendrick has been𝓀 able to provide a car with which all four of its drivers can consistently fight at the front.

Daniels believes this is down to the philosophy established by team owner Rick He🎀ndrick in 2017, when he made it clear that all four c𓆉rews would work together as one large group.

In practice, this involves open communication between all drivers and their respective crews, with data openly being shared within the team.
 
“To me, it all goes back🌠 to I think it was 2017, Mr. Hendrick demand𝐆ed that we weren’t going to have the building split with two teams in different buildings and put us all together,” explained Daniels.

“We say 🀅it a lot, and it’s one thing to say but it’s another thing to practice how closely all four teams really do work. There’s no hidden notes. There’s no secret🎶 notebook.

“Everything is shared really out in the open with our engineering corps, with the crew chief group. All of our meetings are together. We do everything as a combination of the four teams. There’s never any specific meeting or conversation that just happens between a couple groups.
 
“If we’re going to talk engineering or setup theory, it’s going to be with all foꦛur teams present in the same room.

“That’s just Mr. Hendrick’s vision of how he wanted the company to be led, and I think he saw that, that the communication, the teamwork, all the cliche things but they’re so important to live out, if that came into fruition, you’d see what you see today, where I would argue we could run 1 through 4🌳 with the speed of what some of those guys looked like earlier in the day.”

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