Rudd, who will retire at the end of the season, also has five races left in his career, if he is able to race at Martinsville next weekend.
“As far as my shoulder, it’s a little sore, ” Rudd said. “I knew it was hurting, but on a scale of 1 to 10 it wasn’t like something that you couldn’t bear it. It was just like a bad headache. “
Rudd said he needed some time to figure out if Martinsville was a go or not.
“I’ll know more about it when I wake up [Sunday] and go back to rehab therapy [on Monday], ” he said. “Right now, this [Lowe’s] is different than Martinsville. I’ll have to work it a whole lot more. It’s gonna have to get in a little better shape. I don’t want to start Martinsville and get out at halfway because you just lose too much time.
“Right now, I’m probably a little better than 50-50 for Martinsville. ” Ron Lemasters, NASCAR.COM
Ricky Rudd, who missed five races with a separated shoulder, managed an 11th-place finish at Lowe’s Motor Speedway despite running out of gas. Or did he?
“We ran out of gas when we got the green flag [on Lap 336], ” Rudd said. “I stood on the gas and it was buh-buh-buh-buh-buh and I pulled over to the inside and then it took off again.
“They [No. 88 pit crew] were saying, ‘There’s no problem on fuel. You don’t need to worry about running on the flat like everybody else. ’ They said we were good on fuel, but we weren’t good on fuel, so that’s really frustrating. We were seventh and we would have at least been seventh or moved to fifth. ” Ralph N. Paulk, inRich.com
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