With four racing teams, Hendrick Motorsports has an opportunity to build quite a number of entries in the record books. 

Last year, team owner Rick Hendrick notched career win number 300 in the Cup Series over their 39 year history and is just three laps shy of having one of his drivers leading a lap 80,000 times!  When HMS reaches that impressive stat, they will be the first team to do so.  They are just three laps shy of the milestone.

Getting the momentous record setting started was Geoff Bodine in 1984 when he took the lead at the April race in Martinsville and then went on to earn HMS their first win in the same race.

HMS drivers have a streak of leading races for 74 consecutive races.

A bulk of the HMS laps led have come at Martinsville; but the HMS drivers have led races at a total of 35 different NASCAR tracks for about 20 percent of the total laps!  With the inaugural race on the streets of Chicago last year, it is the only course that has not seen an HMS driver leading a lap.

HMS drivers have led at least 240 laps in every season they have run in the Cup Series.  In 2021 when Kyle Larson earned his championship, HMS drivers lead a grand total of 4,119 laps; nearly a third of the total 15,089 laps led on tracks in Virginia.

HMS drivers have equally as well during the “west coast swing” with 9,247 laps led.

Those 79.997 laps led have come to about 105,321 miles! 

Of those 29 drivers, Kyle Busch was the youngest at just 19 years, nine months and 25 days old when he led a lap at Auto Club Speedway in 2005; while Mark Martin is the oldest at 52 years nine months and 14 days old at Talladega in 2011.

Of the 10 months of racing in the Cup Series, October has been the most successful month for HMS drivers with drivers leading 11,216 laps led.

Rick Hendrick has had 29 of his drivers lead at least one lap during a race.  Jeff Gordon leads the way with 24,936 laps led.  Gordon led lap number 10,000 at Atlanta in 1993, lap 20,000 at Darlington in 1997, lap 30,000 at Bristol in 2003, lap 40,000 at Talladega in 2007, and lap 50,000 at Las Vegas in 2010.

Kasey Kahne led lap number 60,000 at Atlanta in 2013 and William Byron led lap number 70,000 at Daytona in 2020 amidst the Covid pandemic.