Ricky Rudd
Ricky Rudd
Richard L. "Ricky" Rudd, nicknamed "The Rooster", is an American former racing driver. He is the uncle of actor Skeet Ulrich and former NASCAR Busch Series driver Jason Rudd. He retired in 2007 with 23 career wins. He was named the 2006 Virginian of the Year and was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2007. In October 2010, he was selected to the Hampton Roads Sports Hall of Fame, which honors those who have contributed to sports...
last race three wrecked
We've wrecked out of this race the last three times,
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It's usually been a good track for us, and we were lucky we got a good qualifying spot (starting fifth) and just tried to keep our nose clean all night. It worked out pretty good.
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It's almost been sort of an uneventful day. We didn't have to change a whole lot of stuff. The car was ready off the truck.
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They're as good as they've ever been. They're still competitive. Their retirement plans are based on their sons coming up. They want to spend time helping their careers, and I have a lot of respect for them.
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A smaller pack that's staying in line, you have a tendency to have cleaner air, more like conditions are when you're running by yourself,
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The bottom line is five guys can go faster than 40.
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Nowadays, as they've been working on the cars and the quality control is getting a lot better, there's not a really a big difference. The cars are built specifically for different types of race tracks, whether it's a high-travel track or low-travel track, and that's what they go by. They go by data. It's past me, way beyond me now. But as far as me saying I've got a favorite car, they're getting stuff more consistent. I don't really see that anymore. They all seem to run about the same - unless they're purposely trying to make one differently, which they can do very easily.
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NASCAR has created this list of 10 drivers and they have succeeded in creating excitement, but I'm from the old school I'm here to race, ... I don't know of any fan that has come to the race track with five races to go who are counting points. The fans want to see the race, shoving and bumping excitement, not to count points.
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I just kind of took all the extra skin and taped it to my eyelid and taped it up to my forehead and put my helmet on and went on.
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I really enjoy racing for the Wood Brothers - they are great people,
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If I were to decide never to drive again, I have had a great career,
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I have not taken a vacation or sick day in nearly 30 years of racing, and with my contract with the Wood Brothers expiring at the end of this race season, it seemed like the perfect time to step back and take a break.
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THEY LOOK THE SAME, BUT THEY DON'T DRIVE THE SAME.
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I'm really sort of surprised at this run because we spent 98 percent of our time yesterday working on race setup and I got really comfortable with what I had there, ... Within the rules structure they allow you to do a few things for qualifying and the guys took advantage of that.