From when Rudd famously raced with his eyes taped open in the 1984 Daytona 500 to ... I would screw up they would come find me and say, ‘Ricky, you should have done this or you should have ...

Ricky Rudd, known as the “Ironman” for his ... but was overlooked because of the tape keeping his eyes open. Another time, when the cooling system in his car failed, his team tried to help ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carl Edwards and Ricky Rudd had very little overlap ... of all time — he used duct tape to keep his swollen and bruised eyes open to ensure he wouldn’t miss the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — One of the toughest drivers in NASCAR history joined one the most enigmatic drivers of the modern era as the newest inductees into the Hall of Fame in a star-studded ...