Carl Edwards says he never expected to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He was shocked to learn he was joining Ricky Rudd as the 2025 inductees. Edwards won 28 races over 13 Cup Series seasons, another 38 races in the Xfinity Series and six Truck Series races. He won one Xfinity Series title and finished second four other times.
FILE - Carl Edwards does a backflip at the finish line after winning the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., June 17, 2007. Edwards, one of NASCAR’s top 75 drivers, was elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame last week based on his 28 career Cup victories. He said his election to the Hall was a surprise he didn’t see coming. FILE - Carl Edwards sits in the garage during practice for the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.
Edwards was in control of the winner-take-all race at Homestead-Miami Speedway until a questionable caution was called with four laps remaining. It set up a late two-lap sprint to the finish and Edwards wrecked on the restart racing Joey Logano for the win.AUTO RACING: Newgarden goes back-to-back at Indy. Bell wins in NASCAR and Leclerc wins in F1Less than two months later, he abruptly retired at 36 and essentially vanished.
“NASCAR is in the business of creating a sport for the fans,” Edwards said. “And I know from private conversations I have had that NASCAR is trying their best, and I respect that. The outcome at various points of my career, and that race specifically, I did not like it. But I 100% respect the sport and the people that run it. It gave me a life and opportunities that I never could have imagined.
“I would just like to say that I officially respect the way NASCAR runs the sport in the way they need to run it. I don’t want to say anything negative,” he said. But he then added, “I may have been unclear, and I want to be explicit, that I did not leave the sport because of the way 2016 ended. Period.”Now 44 and living in his home state of Missouri, Edwards focuses on being a father and a husband to his physician wife. He said he has no plans to ever race a Cup car again.
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