Hendrick Motorsports has dominated the world of NASCAR, being the richest and most successful team in NASCAR history. Rick Hendrick, is a retired racing driver who is the current owner of Hendricks and co-owner of JR Motorsports. Driver-turned-entrepreneur is also one of the founders of the Hendrick Automotive Group and the Hendrick Marrow program.
Rick, who founded Hendrick Motorsports in 1984, currently has an estimated net worth of $1 billion according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Now let’s go back to the year 2020, when the greatest basketball player of all time entered the NASCAR group chat.
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This was the year a new NASCAR team was formed under the ownership of Michael Jordan and a current Joe Gibbs Racing driver, Denny Hamlin. These two elements are at the origin of the birth of the 23XI Racing team. retired basketball player valued The net worth is $2.2 billion and his main source of income is from the Charlotte Hornets, an NBA team based in North Carolina. Other than that, the Hall of Fame player earns nearly $100 million in a single year from endorsements.
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Basketball’s GOAT definitely stole the show and prize money for being richer than the former NASCAR driver and current Hendrick Motorsports team owner.
About 23XI Racing
The racing team owned by the legendary Michael Jordan as majority owner and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin as minority owner announced its formation as a team in September 2020. And Bubba Wallace as first driver for the start of the 2021 season.
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The team name and first car number #23 was inspired by Michael Jordan’s jersey number during his basketball career.
In their first season, #23 driver Wallace earned the team’s first win at Talladega Superspeedway. In addition to winning three top five and three top ten. Later, the team grew and took veteran driver Kurt Busch under its hood driving car #45.
A few months ago, the team announced the signing of Tyler Reddick, the two-time NASCAR Xfinity champion for the 2024 season.
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WATCH THIS STORY: Bubba Wallace plans to call Daniel Ricciardo for sensational F1-NASCAR swap as part of the ongoing project91
The greatest of all time and probably the richest owner of any NASCAR team, MJ and his partner Hamlin, have a very sublime plan for their future and their drivers are here to prove the same to them.
