Rudd will carry #88 at Yates instead of #28
Quote selected text Published January 3rd, 2007 in NASCAR News
Sources close to Robert Yates Racing told ESPN.com Wednesday that Ricky Rudd’s Snickers Ford will carry the #88 in 2007. An announcement is expected as soon as this weekend, one source said.
Since the mid-December announcement that Rudd would return to Nextel Cup Series racing following a year layoff, considerable speculation has centered on what number his RYR Ford would carry. Team officials were undecided and a bit evasive during a conference call following the announcement, leading many to speculate the number would switch to# 28 — the number carried by Yates’ first-ever Cup Series entry from its inception through 2003, when the car was switched to #38.
Asked his preference, Rudd said he’d take the #28, which he drove for Yates from 2000-2002, posting three wins and 34 top-five finishes. But he’ll get the #88, a decision made based on a 2002 agreement between RYR and Texaco/Havoline, sources said.
The agreement, sources said, was that RYR could keep the #28 when Texaco left for Chip Ganassi Racing [#42 Dodge], but that Yates would wait several years to run the number. Yates and Masterfoods — Snickers’ parent company — wanted to run the #28, but couldn’t reach the required agreement with Texaco to do so, sources said.
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Hopefully he will do better in it than DJ did.
Huh…if you say so but DJ did win a Championship in 1999 with it sweetcheeks…I guess you must have forgotten??
Texaco left so they should not have a sayso in the car number now.
DJ lost my respect when he left to drive a Toyota.
Toyota is the biggest car maker in the world and hopefully you’ll be one of the fans of nascar that needs to just go ahead and stop watching now because a “jap” car is now in the Cup series. Imports will continue to take over motorsports and highways until Cheverolet, Ford and Dodge decide to make a reliable vehicle. Come on Toyota and don’t forget the rest of Japan either. Congrats to Ricky for getting back in and also for Dale for going where the fans don’t want him to.
I am glad to see that RYR will have two cars next season. I still cant believe that its going to be Ricky Rudd in that second car. I thought that they were done forever after all the shit they went through.