NASCAR Cup

Ricky Rudd career summary

RICKY RUDD Born: Chesapeake, Va. Resides: Lake Norman, N.C. D.O.B.: 9/12/56 Spouse: Linda Children: Landon - August 26, 1994 Enjoyed successful season in first year as owner-driver of Tide- sponsored RPM Racing... Won at Loudon, N.H., in ...

Edited: May 8, 2001, 12:19 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

RICKY RUDD

Born:  Chesapeake, Va.
Resides:  Lake Norman, N.C.
D.O.B.:  9/12/56
Spouse:  Linda
Children:  Landon - August 26, 1994

Enjoyed successful season in first year as owner-driver of Tide- sponsored RPM Racing... Won at Loudon, N.H., in '94 for his 15th career victory... Has won at least one race in each season since 1983 - never more than two victories in a year... Began racing motocross and go-karts in late '60s... 1977 Winston Cup Rookie of the Year... 500 Winston Cup starts, 15 wins, 21 poles and $8,685,611 in career winnings (6th all-time)... First Winston Cup race, 1975... First win came in 161st starts, Budweiser 400, June, 1983, at Riverside... First pole came in 96th attempt, 1981 Virginia 500 at Martinsville... Known as road racing extraordinaire ... Raced four seasons for Rick Hendrick before breaking off on his own... Runner-up to Dale Earnhardt for 1991 Winston Cup title... Won 1992 IROC title... $1,044,441 in '94 winnings, finished 5th in '94 Winston Cup standings... Enjoys outdoors, boating and water sports... Says his role as owner is a spark to an exciting second life in Winston Cup racing.

WINSTON CUP VICTORIES: 1983 - Riverside Martinsville 1984 - Richmond 1985 - Atlanta 1986 - Martinsville Dover 1987 - Atlanta Dover 1988 - Watkins Glen 1989 - Sonoma 1990 - Watkins Glen 1991 - Atlanta 1992 - Dover 1993 - Michigan 1994 - Loudon

SOURCE: 1995 NASCAR Winston Cup Media Guide

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Slugging percentage after Martinsville

Next article Irvan tests at Road Atlanta

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Mercedes explains why its upgrade made its F1 car harder to drive

Formula 1

Singapore GP

Mercedes explains why its upgrade made its F1 car harder to drive

How Geri Halliwell helped Christian Horner deal with fan hate

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1 13 min

How Geri Halliwell helped Christian Horner deal with fan hate

Max Verstappen stars with 15-place charge in 45 minutes: 'I learned a lot and had fun'

GT World Challenge Europe Endurance

WCEE GT World Challenge Europe Endurance

Portimão

39 min

Max Verstappen stars with 15-place charge in 45 minutes: 'I learned a lot and had fun'

How levelling the playing field isn’t antithetical to the principles of F1

Formula 1

How levelling the playing field isn’t antithetical to the principles of F1

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts