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For Rick Hendrick, being Number One matters a whole lot. As a race-team owner, Hendrick holds the record for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships with 11 and he has won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship three times. On the automotive side, his Hendrick Automotive Group is the sixth-largest automotive dealer network in the United States with 2014 sales of more than 180,000 new vehicles and a workforce of more than 10,000 employees.