NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick, wife OK after plane crash

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A Gulfstream jet carrying Rick Hendrick, one of NASCAR’s most successful team owners, his wife Linda and two pilots ran off a runway in Key West, Fla., on Monday night but ‘there were no serious injuries,’ Hendrick Motorsports said.

The G150 jet was ‘experiencing brake issues upon landing at Key West International Airport,’ the team said, adding that all four people aboard ‘were taken to a local hospital for evaluation.’

‘Hendrick Motorsports is gathering additional information on the incident,’ the team said.

Four of the leading drivers in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series drive for Hendrick: Reigning champion Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Mark Martin.

The incident occurred seven years after Hendrick’s 24-year-old son, Ricky, Hendrick’s brother John and two of Hendrick’s nieces, along with six others, were killed when their small plane crashed on the way a race in Martinsville, Va.

-- Jim Peltz