Richard Childress did the hard work of turning a shoestring operation into NASCAR royalty, a scrappy start in 1969 that evolved into one of the sport’s most successful family-run empires. Childress bought a battered 1947 Plymouth for $20 and, over decades, built RCR into a multi-car powerhouse that famously paired Dale Earnhardt to capture a championship and define an era. That old-school, hands-on blueprint, the owner on the trailer and the family face in the garage, produced marquee moments and created deep institutional memory that still guides the team today. “I’m more involved than I have been in several years because I want to get the right people to help me make the right decisions. I don’t want to make all these decisions on my own. I’ve got to have the right people helping make t

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