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Towards the end of the 1999 season Tide announced they were leaving the team and moving to PPI Motorsports who was entering NASCAR from CART with driver Scott Pruett. Following the 1999 season without a sponsor, Rudd closed his team, having decided that the stress of balancing team ownership with driving was unprofitable [ citation needed ] and ...
Rudd was born in South Norfolk, Virginia (now Chesapeake), the son of Margaret (née McMannen) and Alvin R. Rudd Sr., the president of Al Rudd Auto Parts. [2] [3] [4] He began racing as a teenager in karting and motocross, but did not attempt stock car racing until he was eighteen years old, when he made his NASCAR debut at North Carolina Speedway in 1975, driving the No. 10 Ford for family ...
Scott Donald Pruett (born March 24, 1960) is an American retired racing driver who has competed in numerous disciplines of the sport. In the 1980s, Pruett established himself as a top sports car racer, winning two IMSA GTO, and three Trans-Am championships.
Richard Allen Craven (born May 24, 1966) is an American stock car racing analyst and former driver. Prior to his broadcasting duties, he was a NASCAR driver who won in four different series—the ARCA Menards Series, and the three national series. [1] He occasionally served as a pit reporter when NASCAR aired on TBS in the mid-1990s.
PPI, short for Precision Preparation, Inc. [1], was a company founded by team owner Cal Wells in 1979 in Westminster, California. [2]At the time, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. needed to promote their tough, reliable technology driven line of trucks through participation in Off-Road Championships, the Score Desert Series, including the Baja 500 and Baja 1000, and the Mickey Thompson Off-Road ...
The permanent crew chiefs of those cars, Rudy Fugle for the No. 24 and Blake Harris for the No. 48, would return at Martinsville after their four race suspensions ended, so the team did not need to have third-string crew chiefs for both cars. [117] On April 19, 2023, NASCAR announced that Keith Rodden, the crew chief of the No. 3 car for ...
In 1986, Hendrick fielded the No. 15 car for one race at Atlanta with Brett Bodine as the driver. He won the pole and finished 2nd. In 1991, Rick Hendrick drove the No. 15 Tide car at Heartland Park Topeka. He started third and finished 23rd after a braking issue in his only career ARCA start. [66]
In 2007, Gordon asked part-time driver Mark Martin if he could be on standby for him to take over the No. 24 car, should he have needed to miss a race to witness the birth of his first child. Daughter Ella Sofia Gordon was born on Wednesday, June 20 in New York City ; Gordon traveled to Sonoma, California later that week to compete in the ...