Michael Waltrip may not be behind the wheel of a Sprint Cup car week in and week out, but he's not completely retired. One kind of racing brings the driver out of his semi-retirement a few times a year -- restrictor plate racing. The Sprint Cup Series goes restrictor plate racing for the fourth and final time this season on Sunday with the Amp Energy Juice 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, and Waltrip will once again climb into a No. 55 car.
"If the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series raced every weekend at Talladega and Daytona, I'd still be driving full-time," Waltrip said. "That's how much I like those tracks and restrictor plate racing."
From the start of his Cup career in 1985 until he stopped competing full-time at the end of the 2009 season, Waltrip posted four-career wins, all coming at the restrictor plate tracks of Talladega and Daytona International Speedway. He has three wins at Daytona and one at Talladega, coming in 2003.
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