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Hendrick misses finale to be with niece

by Associated Press

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Posted on November 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) -- NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick is not at Homestead-Miami Speedway because he stayed in North Carolina to be with an ailing niece.


A Hendrick spokesman says that Alesha Gainey is in critical condition at a North Carolina hospital awaiting an emergency liver transplant.

She is the 29-year-old daughter of John Hendrick, one of the 10 people killed in a 2004 plane crash.
Also killed in that accident were John Hendrick's twin daughters.


Rick Hendrick is poised to win a Cup Series record ninth championship Sunday when either Jimmie Johnson or Mark Martin wins the Sprint Cup title.


The title will be Hendrick's 12th overall in NASCAR, also a record.

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