Birthplace:
Chesapeake,Va Birthdate: September 12,1956
Wife: Linda
Children: Landon Lee
Residence: Cornelius, N.C.
Hobbies: FlyingRicky Rudd's Fan Club Address:
P.O. Box 7586
Richmond.
VA 23231
NASCAR
Winston Cup Firsts:Start - March 2, 1975
North Carolina Motor Speedway Pole - April 24, 1981
Martinsville Speedway Win - June 5, 1983 Riverside International
Raceway
Titles
& Awards:
NASCAR
Winston Cup Rookie of the Year - 1977
IROC Champion - 1992
UAW-GM Teamwork Award - 1994
Career
Highlights & Timeline
1975 - First NASCAR Winston Cup race at North Carolina Motor Speedway
1977 - Winston Cup Rookie of the Year
1981 - Joined DiGard Racing Winston Cup team
First Winston
Cup pole at Martinsville Speedway on April 24th
1982 - Joined Richard Childress Racing Winston Cup team
1983 - First Winston Cup victory at Riverside International Raceway
on
June 5th
1984 - Joined Bud Moore Engineering Winston Cup team
1988 - Joined
King Racing Winston Cup Team
1990 - Joined Hendrick Motorsports Winston Cup Team
1991 - Finished 2nd in Winston Cup point standings
1992 - Finished 7th in Winston Cup point standings
Won International
Race of Champions Title
1993 - Finished 19th in Winston Cup point standings
Announces
in June he is starting his own Winston Cup team,
Rudd Performance Motorsports to start competition in 1994.
1994 - Wins first race as Owner/Driver at New Hampshire International
Speedway in July
Started 500th career Winston Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway
on November 13, 1994
Finished fifth
in Winston Cup point standings
1995 - Finished ninth in Winston Cup point standings
1996 - Finished sixth in Winston Cup point standings
1997 - Finished 17th in Winston Cup point standings
1998 - Extended streak of at lesat on evictory a year to 16 years,
a modern record, and finished 22nd in Winston Cup points
1999 - Finished 31st in Winston Cup points and didn't win a race
for the first time since 1983
2000-Finished
5th in Winston Cup points after selling his own team and moving
over to RYR
2001-Ricky
scored his first win in 3 years and finished 4th in Winston Cup
points