The six-page letter was unsigned but included a long list of Rudd‘s career achievements ... still showed up in Victory Lane in 1998 at Martinsville Speedway despite suffering second-degree ...

He still put in a solid performance but did not win the race. The now-68-year-old made his NASCAR debut in 1975 at North Carolina Speedway ... to 1998, a rare achievement in NASCAR. Ricky Rudd ...