Rudd, a 45-year-old native of Chesapeake ... t have bet a nickel on our chances to sign Ricky. We had one year of sponsorship left with Motorcraft and not enough to offer him.

Ricky Rudd remembers ... Winston Cup champ, is Rudd’s stablemate. Rudd has, arguably, the best race engines and one of the finest cars in NASCAR. “We have the model of a championship.