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Ricky Rudd announced today that he will be retiring from NEXTEL Cup competition after this season. Rudd made his NASCAR debut in 1975. Now, 30 years later, he has 23 wins in the top series but never won a Championship. He finished second to Dale Earnhardt in 1991. The current rumor is that Ken Schrader will move over from the BAM Racing #49 to drive the Wood Brothers #21 car that Rudd will leave behind.
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Ricky Rudd will retire from Nextel Cup racing at the end of this season, his 31st on NASCAR's top circuit. "I still have the desire and ability to win races, but a little burnout is beginning to set in," Rudd said. "It's time to freshen up and do some things with my family that I have put off for a lot of years."
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Ricky Rudd went winless in 1999, ending a string of 16 consecutive seasons with at least one trip to Victory Lane. However, he doesn't believe this is the beginning of the end, and neither does Robert Yates. Yates hired the Virginia native to drive his
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Ricky Ruddwill race this Car of Tomorrow COT in 16 scheduled races in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series. NASCAR may decide that every team will drive this new car for the full season in 2008. These diecasts are better than the normal diecasts that everyone is accustomed to. The high wing and the lower splitter really catch your attention on this collectible. This is the 1st year for this car to see the track in competition after NASCAR's seven year commitment to safety.
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Rudd is the "Ironman" of NASCAR, holding the record for most consecutive starts in NASCAR racing. At his retirement, Rudd had made 788 consecutive starts. He is ... remembered as one of the "Tide ride" drivers as well as for winning a race in sixteen consecutive seasons (1983 to 1998). Rudd had a total of 23 wins, 194 top 5's, and 373 top 10's. On November 8, 2005, Rudd announced his intention to take a break from racing effective at the end of 2005 season. Ricky Rudd was named the 2006 "Virginian of the Year."
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In 1981, Rudd signed with DiGard Motorsports to drive the #88 Gatorade car. Although he had no victories, he won his first three pole positions, and began his lengthly streak of consectutive race starts. He left at the end of the year to pilot the #3 Piedmont Airlines Pontiac for Richard Childress Racing. He had six top-fives but dropped down to ninth in the championship standings. He was able to get his first two wins of his career in 1983, at Riverside and Martinsville Speedway, respectively, but stayed at 9th in points. He ... ran the only three Busch Series races of his career that season, winning in his debut event at Dover Downs.
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