At age 15, Rick Mast ... solid 15-year NASCAR career that left Mast, now 58, comfortable and content. “It was my steer to use as I wanted,” he says, “and I wanted a race car.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Carbon monoxide poisoning, until recently a condition that was virtually ignored in NASCAR Winston Cup racing, has forced veteran driver Rick Mast to retire.

become the first driver to ever lead a stock car race at Indianapolis, and assert his dominance as NASCAR's champion and top gun. "Dale had told me, 'I'm gonna lead the first lap, Rick,'" Mast ...

NASCAR Winston Cup Series veteran Rick Mast announced his retirement ... will not allow me to race anymore,” Mast said. “While I stepped out of the car in May [2002], it was not until November ...

Seven years and several teams later, veteran Rick Mast is ... Many of Mast's fond memories of the inaugural Brickyard 400 centre around late seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt.

Because the race just to get into that inaugural NASCAR ... were cars everywhere,” remembered Bobby Labonte, who would go on to finish 16th. “It was very chaotic,” recalled Rick Mast ...

In a recent podcast interview, former NASCAR driver Rick Mast gave his thoughts about ... t start feeling better after being in the car.” While Mast had to step away from competing, his ...

CHARLOTTE - NASCAR driver Rick Mast said Wednesday that years of breathing in race car fumes has given him carbon monoxide poisoning that will end his career. Mast, who has not raced since May of ...

Former NASCAR driver Rick ... car. I'm assuming that's the reason they did that, right?" However, it was the intensity of Wallace's impact that might have drawn NASCAR's stringent response. Mast ...

Rick Mast remembers just how big a deal ... Thirty years later, Mast and 10 other NASCAR Cup Series drivers from that first Indy trip reunited at the start-finish line to mark the anniversary ...