HC50: Personal
Info: Name, location, age, make, model,
year of car?
Dave Rudisell, Lawrenceburg,
Indiana,
Age 31, 1984 Mustang owned car since 1999
HC50: How long have you
been drag racing? How did you get
your start?
I started into racing in 1994
with Jim Huber, was his crew chief and Gary Rohe's crew chief
until in 1999 I built a car for NMCA's Factory Street.
HC50: What's
been the biggest challenge to your racing
program?
Trying to get radials to work
(hook). My BES motor has been very reliable.
HC50: What
would you consider you biggest accomplishment
as a racer?
Winning the 2001 NMCA Factory
Street championship and owning both the et and mph record in that
class. My biggest single race was this year in bowling green
pro race where I won the event in Xtreme Street and beating Gary
Rohe in the second round of
that race.
HC50:
What's gotten you hooked on the Mustang drag racing
scene?
I'm hooked on heads up
racing, because bracket racing is the only racing in the world
where you can lose for going too fast.. just
doesn't make any sense to me!
HC50: What are your plans
for the future?
I wish I could make plans right
now, but all the orgs are unstable.
I'll have to wait until winter for future plans, for this season I
plan on attending all of the NSCA/NMCA races and PRO, and Orlando
world finals.
HC50: What changes, if
any, do you feel the sanctioning
bodies need to make in order for our sport to prosper?
Get more contingencies, especially
NSCA/NMCA....show more of
the lower classes on TV and in the magazines
HC50: Do you think the
NMRA should change their rules to
allow different organizations to compete within each
other?
Somebody needs to make the rules
equal. I'd love to race the NMRA but they just won't allow a 30
year old Cleveland head in their classes.
HC50: Who are your biggest
friends (or enemies) at the
track? Who do you fear
having to see at the starting line?
My biggest friends are my fiancé
Kim, because she goes to every
race and supports me in good or bad times. All of my friends from
BES are awesome too.. they will do anything for me...even fill my
car full of beer cans when I
don't stay up and drink with them....that's another story though.
I fear nobody on the line, I just race my own race and what
happens happens, I do fear the
guy with the rosin and VHT, when he puts it down right before my
pass.. lol
HC50: Any other pertinent
info? (sponsors you'd like to thank, wives you HAVE to
thank, other things not mentioned you feel are important)?
I gotta thank Tommy at TRZ, for the
awesome suspension parts, and Jason at PA for the
great products he and Vern make, Steve Johnson from Holley, for
all his track help, also Stanley Budke from eagle racecars. Jim
Widener for a reliable transmission. BES for all the power I could
possibly need. Florida performance for all the race parts at the
track, Cincy Speed for all the parts at home.
