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was an American NASCAR stock car driver and partial owner at Hendrick Motorsports, a team that his father Rick Hendrick founded. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on April 2, 1980, and began his career in racing at the age of fifteen. He competed in both the XFinity Series and Truck Series before his death from an airplane accident on October 24, 2004. In 1999, he entered his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Myrtle Beach Speedway, where he qualified fifth and finished 20th. He continued to run the series in 2000, with the addition of competing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. His first Truck series start would come at Pikes Peak where he started 11th and came home with a nice sixth place finish. He would run six races in the Truck Series during this season with all but one of his finishes

being 12th or better. In 2001, he started to compete in all the Truck races. He recorded his first NASCAR career win on July 7, becoming the youngest rookie to win a race at the time. Hendrick was also able to accomplish 19 top ten finishes, the most by a rookie at that time. In 2002, he moved to the Xfinity Series with team mate Jack Sprague. During the season he was involved in an accident at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, sustaining a shoulder injury. He required surgery and two months of healing before he could race again. He ran 22 of the 34 events and had a best finish of fifth on two occasions before his injury. However, whenever he was healthy enough to return to racing; he decided to retire and take an management role at Hendrick Motorsports. He continued to be employed by Hendrick Motorsports, as the owner of two teams: Brian Vickers in the NASCAR Cup Series and Kyle Busch in the Xfinity Series. On October 24, 2004, around 12:30 p.m.

EST, Hendrick died in a plane crash near Martinsville, Virginia. With him were nine others who also lost their lives. The plane, on its way to the Martinsville Speedway, crashed on Bull Mountain due to pilot error in heavy fog. The Hendrick plane was headed to Martinsville to attend the Cup event held there that day. Of the ten people killed in the crash were: members of the Hendrick family including John Hendrick, brother of Rick Hendrick, and president of Hendrick Motorsports, John's twin daughters, Kimberly and Jennifer Hendrick, General Manager Jeff Turner, and chief engine builder Randy Dorton. The pilots were Richard Tracy and Elizabeth Morrison. Other passengers include Joe Jackson, an executive at DuPont and Scott Lathram, Tony Stewart's pilot. At the time of the crash Ricky's fiance' Emily Maynard with pregnant with

their first child. They had been together for four years, and had just gotten engaged six months before the crash. She found out she was pregnant just days before Ricky's memorial. She gave birth to Josephine Riddick "Ricki" on June 29th, 2005; eight months after the fatal crash. Ricky's full name was Joseph Riddick Hendrick IV. Emily informed Rick Hendrick and his wife Linda she was pregnant. The Hendricks were delighted. Rick stated "At the lowest time of our life, it was like a miracle that happened for us because we get a chance to have a piece of Ricky left. I can’t describe how happy and how excited we are. When she told us, it was hard to even believe. It was like God had given us back something. We had lost so much." In January of 2011 Emily was chosen to be a contestant on ABC's reality TV show "The Bachelor". She was picked by the Bachelor on the show, and he proposed to her. They split up in June 2011. In 2012 Emily got a

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JOSEPH RIDDICK "RICKY" HENDRICK IV - 04/12/1980 - 10/24/2004