Rick Hendrick was driving home from lunch on a Sunday afternoon in 2004 when his cell phone rang. A longtime employee was on the line, and he nervously asked the boss to pull over so they could talk. Hendrick was 55 years old. He owned a $3 billion chain of automotive dealerships and a 460-employee NASCAR racing operation. As he eased his BMW X5 off the road, he figured there'd been a wreck at that afternoon's race and that one of his drivers was injured.
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