Ricky Rudd Planning to Retire From NASCAR

Ricky Rudd, a NASCAR driver with 23 NASCAR race wins to his credit and 374 top ten finishes is winding up his 32 year career as a race car driver. Rickey who is 51 said that NASCAR was a young man's game, telling reporters,

I've been fortunate that it's something that I've loved to do, had fun doing and made a good living doing it," Rudd said. "To run the schedule week-in and week-out, it's more demanding than it used to be. And it's really become a young guys' sport: a single guy or a guy that's married and no kids, which means guys in their 20s and early 30s, just because there are so many demands on your schedule.

Ricky Rudd has been nothing if not prolific when it comes to racing, finishing a career of 900 starts in his career. However this year hasn't been the best for Ricky and his NASCAR team (Yates/Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing) which apparently might have something to do with his retirement.

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I thik Rudd is right, NASCAR stock car racing probably is a young man's game although, drivers his age are not that uncommon on the NASCAR track. But the job and the schedule can be demanding and winning is pretty much everything. If you aren't winning, maybe it is time to step down.

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