Earnhardt Now Understands Hendrick Grief
Earnhardt, whose father died on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, knows the sorrow of unexpectedly losing a loved one. Hendrick also experienced tragedy when he lost his son, Ricky, his brother, John, John’s daughters Jennifer and Kimberly, Hendrick Motorsports general manager Jeff Turner, engine builder Randy Dorton and four others in a plane crash en route to Martinsville Speedway on October 24, 2004. But when Earnhardt joined Hendrick in 2008, he realized he didn’t have as much in common with Hendrick as he thought....