 a day that changed nascar it's fair to wonder what nascar would look like today had bodine failed to win throughout hendrick motorsports 40 years of operation it has been part of some of the sport's most poignant moments and has employed several of the sport's top talents over the last half century all of that history would have been lost in fact never would have happened without jeff bodine racing to victory on that april afternoon 40 years ago at martinsville