But Richard ... is the role Petty had building stock-car racing from a day at the beach for good ol' boys into a superspeedway sport for the masses. The winner of a remarkable 200 NASCAR races ...

"Richard was not ... made much of the fact that Petty used NASCAR tactics on I-85 when, boxed in by a slow commuter, Petty tapped him from the rear. His No. 43 car is an attraction in the ...

Former NASCAR Cup Series driver Richard Petty shared a solution for the problems with Superspeedway racing. On his official X account, the seven-time Cup Series champion stated that the cars ...

Returning to one of NASCAR's iconic tracks for the 2023 All-Star Race, Legacy Motor Club and STP will honor one NASCAR Cup Series NASCAR officials indicated that three drivers -- William Byron ...

Richard Petty arrived in style at the ... Perhaps the most iconic NASCAR car to sport the Petty Blue color and No. 43 was the Plymouth Superbird from the early 70s. The racecar was designed ...

It all started with Lee Petty, which feels appropriate. He won the first Daytona 500 in 1959. Five years later, his son, Richard, claimed the increasingly iconic NASCAR race for the first time.

A half-dozen of the country’s top NASCAR drivers met in town on Jan. 2, 1975, to try their hand at making a record instead of breaking one. They are Darrell Waltrip, left, Richard Petty ...