# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ricky-hendrick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:28:29.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ricky-hendrick"
name: "Ricky Hendrick"
slug: "ricky-hendrick"
description: "Joseph Riddick \"Ricky\" Hendrick IV was an American stock car racing driver and partial owner at Hendrick Motorsports, a NASCAR team that his father Rick Hendrick founded. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 2, 1980, and began racing in Go Karts at a young age, then the Legends Series at fifteen. He competed in both the Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series before his death from an airplane accident on October 24, 2004. He was killed with nine other family members and friends during the accident."
tagline: "American stock car racing driver and racing executive (1980–2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/ESRickyCharlotte.png/330px-ESRickyCharlotte.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1980-04-02"
deathDate: "2004-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.44
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.1033
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ريكي هندريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ريكى هندريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Hendrick"
    title: "Ricky Hendrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Hendrick"
    title: "Ricky Hendrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Hendrick"
    title: "Ricky Hendrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1094127"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump