Ricky Rudd reflects.....

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Ricky Rudd was a youngster in NASCAR at a time when the term described anyone under 30 that drove around in used equipment and hoped someone noticed their talent before the wheels fell off.
 
2 Sweet said:
On Rudd's win at Riverside...

"It wasn't a road-race car," Will Lind, now Business Director of Competition for RCR, said. "It was our Martinsville car with the gas hole moved and the oil cooler for the transmission. The only thing specialized about it was him (Rudd)."
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great quote.
 
My two most memorable moments from Ricky Rudd were where he had his eyes taped open for the Daytona 500 after he flipped his car in the Busch Clash the week before and him almost having a heat stroke during a Martinsville win in the late 90's. They nicknamed Earnhardt "Ironhead" and "One Tough Customer". But Rudd was one of the toughest drivers I have seen in the modern era.
 
MRM said:
My two most memorable moments from Ricky Rudd were where he had his eyes taped open for the Daytona 500 after he flipped his car in the Busch Clash the week before and him almost having a heat stroke during a Martinsville win in the late 90's. They nicknamed Earnhardt "Ironhead" and "One Tough Customer". But Rudd was one of the toughest drivers I have seen in the modern era.
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love rickys feet on a roadcourse!

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It's a shame that Ricky spent so much time in his own ride. I think he would've done way better with better equipment. His early run with Yates showed that he had something in the tank that was lost when he ran his own team.
 
The Nature Boy said:
It's a shame that Ricky spent so much time in his own ride. I think he would've done way better with better equipment. His early run with Yates showed that he had something in the tank that was lost when he ran his own team.
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Yet somehow he managed to extend that streak of having at least one win every season.

Rooster was one tough old bird. DF, thanks for the discussion!
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Yet somehow he managed to extend that streak of having at least one win every season.

Rooster was one tough old bird. DF, thanks for the discussion!
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charlie I wanted to share that it was Rudd who really engrained my love of road courses. He was a humble guy too.
 
I loved Ricky Rudd, was one of my first favorites when I started watching this sport. I remember the 2001 Richmond race when Harvick booted him out of the way with 20 to go, Ricky somehow saved the thing, then ran Harvick back down and returned the favor to win. Badass
 
I was a fan of Ricky until he dumped the race leader Davey Allison on a road course. It was the only time I saw NASCAR take the win away from a driver and penalize him several positions.
 
Zerkfitting said:
I was a fan of Ricky until he dumped the race leader Davey Allison on a road course. It was the only time I saw NASCAR take the win away from a driver and penalize him several positions.
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That was such a BS call by NASCAR. Allison shouldn't have left the inside lane open. NASCAR would never make a call like that today. We've seen much, much worse than that with nothing being called.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
That was such a BS call by NASCAR. Allison shouldn't have left the inside lane open. NASCAR would never make a call like that today. We've seen much, much worse than that with nothing being called.
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As I recall, Ricky lifted Davey's rear tires, it was a bad pass for the win IMO - based on my memory of the event.
 
DaBiff1618 said:
I loved Ricky Rudd, was one of my first favorites when I started watching this sport. I remember the 2001 Richmond race when Harvick booted him out of the way with 20 to go, Ricky somehow saved the thing, then ran Harvick back down and returned the favor to win. Badass
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I recall Ricky being quoted somewhere as saying, "He (Harvick) may be in Dale's car, but he ain't Dale."
 
DanicaFreak said:



No yellow for a call in the wall...
rudd vs Big E...
Last lap spin
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Kind of ironic for Dale to complain about being spun and saying that Rudd should be fined and have sit out. I liked Dale for being a hard driver, but he knew that he would have done the same thing, and had before, and never bat an eye.
 
Isn't the Rudd and Gordon BS and feud the reason why we have the STUPID yellow line rule at Daytona and Talladega???
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
That was such a BS call by NASCAR. Allison shouldn't have left the inside lane open. NASCAR would never make a call like that today. We've seen much, much worse than that with nothing being called.
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At the time, only into my second year of watching NASCAR I thought it was completely justified...but after years of watching intently it seems it's the way to do it so NASCAR was completely wrong busting Ricky like that.

Friggin Dave Marcis caused it. Should have let the leader go and it would have finished as it should have. But he was a true Chevy guy so he did the company thing holding up Davey.
 
^ Yeah, it was a bad call, IMO.
 
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