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Ray Hendrick, known as "Mr. Modified", was born in Richmond, Virginia on the 1st April 1929 and sadly died of cancer 28th September 1990. Ray was known for his philosophy on race that "race anywhere and everywhere." He was a prolific racer, competing in a hundred races across the highway, earning him a win in some 712 races. This philosophy he is prevented from completing a full season in the NASCAR Winston Cup so that he never won a championship, but did not get two top five six Top 10 ending in seventeen starts.
His career lasted more than a race thirty-four years, during which time he has mainly competed in the NASCAR Modifieds, driving his familiar # 11 changes winged coupe, owned by Jack The most important and Clayton Mitchell. Ray has won five championships in the South Boston Speedway, four as they compete in the NASCAR Modified division and one in NASCAR Lat model sportsman division. Although she never won the National Modified Championship has finished in the top 10 in points nine times between the years 1960 and 1969 and also finished eighth and 9 respectively in 1974 and 1975 in the National Late model sportsman points (later known as the Busch Grand National Division). In 1969, Ray won the Modified Race of Champions at Langhorne Speedway one mile and again in 1975 to 1.5 mile oval in the Trenton Speedway.
became the first all-time winners list Martinsville Speedway with twenty wins between 1963 and 1975, topping the Richard Petty's 15 victories. 1970 saw Ray 100 laps to win the national championship race on Memorial Day weekend.
It can be credited the following awards: - inducted into the national motto Press Association Hall of Fame in 1993, named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers in 1998, named one of NASCAR Modified All-Time Top 10 in 2003, was the first inductee in the Virginia motorcycle Hall of Fame inductee in 2003 and the International motorcycle Hall of Fame in Darlington, South Carolina in 2007.
Ray has achieved almost legendary status among the Modified and Grand National drivers who have met him a week for almost 35 years. During the 50's and 60 has teamed up with car owners Ira Smiley, John and Jack Tadlock Tanto Clayton Mitchell, who has won hundreds of races Change from South Carolina to New England.
in June 1977 Langley Speedway honored Ray with a special gala night was thrown, to identify with Ray's Silver Anniversary Late Model Sportsman 200 and the night before the presentation, Ray and his family were delighted to attend a lavish banquet uChamberlin Hotel in Hampton. Ray was at that time. " This is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, I can not imagine anyone not feeling quite good about something like this. "