Rick Mast

[1] After racing at the local track level for the decade, Mast began running the Busch Series in 1982, and had four top-ten finishes in eleven starts in his No.

[2] He improved to eighth position in 1988 the same year he made his Winston Cup debut for Buddy Baker at the Busch 500, finishing 28th at that race.

[2] Mast won five Busch races while running full-time the next two years, before focusing his efforts on the Cup Series.

[2] Mast made his Cup debut in a two-race schedule for Baker-Schiff Racing as an injury substitute for Buddy Baker.

This action is prohibited after the white flag by NASCAR rules, regardless of who the individual drivers are, but he was not fined money or points.

He slid to a stop a few hundred feet beyond the start-finish line and soon climbed out of the car, much to the delight of the crowd.

[3] In August of that season, he won the pole position at the inaugural Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway[3] (a race for which 90 cars were entered), finishing 18th in points.

1998 started off better for Mast as he won the pole at the GM Goodwrench Service Plus 400, but his struggles continued, and he left the team when the season came to a close.

After rumors spread that Mast would return to Travis Carter to drive a car sponsored by Kmart, he joined the No.

However, Universal did not renew their contract, and with questions surrounding Yarborough's plans on continuing to own the team, Mast was out of work again.

41 Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce-sponsored Chevrolet Monte Carlo for Larry Hedrick Motorsports.

27 Duke's Mayonnaise-sponsored Pontiac Grand Prix for Eel River Racing, but late in the season, the team closed down, and Mast was out of work once again.

[4] He had lost weight and was forced to miss races to take medical tests to find out what was wrong.

As NASCAR had mandated full-face helmets, teams were using forced-air inlet systems taking air from the car into the driver.

[3] He owns and operates RKM EnviroClean, Inc. which specializes in environmental clean-up services, underground utilities contracting, and site demolition.

[3] He did some announcing after he retired from racing, but decided that he wanted to stay home to help raise his twin daughters after missing out on most too much of Ricky's upbringing.

[9] In the movie Days of Thunder, Mast drove as a stunt double in Rowdy Burns' car for scenes shot at the Daytona International Speedway.