DON'T BET AGAINST HENDRICK.(Competition)(Rick Hendrick the owner of Hendrick Motorsports)

Byline: AL PEARCE

Funny man, that Rick Hendrick. The owner of Hendrick Motorsports sat in front of the entire American motorsports media in mid-January and said with a straight face that his teams were tied for dead last in the 2008 Sprint Cup standings. He added, again with a straight face, that he hoped some of his teams would qualify for the Chase and then run well enough maybe to contend for this year's NASCAR championship.

That's a good one, Rick. Pretty funny. What a kidder.

If Hendrick had glanced up during that speech, he'd have seen 11 NASCAR championship banners ...

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