Is Hendricks success creating stress fractures?
Time was, HMS was just a plain old good NASCAR team. Then came the 1990s and Jeff Gordon and Terry Labonte and it started winning championships. Then came the new century and Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus and more championships and the view that Rick Hendrick not only knew how to win, but knew how to win while style and grace and all the while treating his employees as though they had value.And the Hendrick jobs became the most sought after jobs in the sport. Really, really good drivers jumped from teams their fathers founded, they came out of retirement, they signed deals that left entire seasons unaccounted for all just for the opportunity to get into a Hendrick Sprint Cup car.And while the boulder rolls on this season, it appears from a distance that there may be some stress fractures developing.The most obvious is the growing spat between drivers Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson. They exchanged hisses a week ago after the race at Texas Motor Speedway but it was all chalked up to race
