Rasmussen, a native of Edmonton, Alberta, started racing on dirt tracks in Southern Alberta, and made more than 600 starts in the touring CAMRA series. He made more than 50 USAC Sprint Car starts before reaching USAC National Championship (Indy car) in the 1970s.
He scored three top-10 finishes in 23 career starts with a best finish of seventh in a 100-mile heat race in 1975 at Ontario Motor Speedway, and he went on to claim ninth in the 500-mile feature race.
