NASCAR emerges bruised from federal antitrust lawsuit but ready for 78th season
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the days after the 2004 Hendrick Motorsports flight that killed all 12 people on board, Bill France Jr. and Mike Helton showed up at Rick Hendrick’s front door in Charlotte, North Carolina. France, terminally ill at the time, was the president of NASCAR, the stock car racing series his…