Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daytona felt like a different world to Richard Petty. It was 1959, and Petty was driving a pickup truck through the tunnel as his ...

When the NASCAR haulers rolled into Daytona Beach in the summer of 1975, Richard Petty’s future Hall of Fame plaque was already largely engraved. He’d won five of what would become seven Cup Series ...

Richard Petty is 86 years old now, and his seven NASCAR Cup championships and record 200 wins at the sport’s highest level came long ago. But Petty is still going strong in Level Cross (pop. 3,694), ...

Denny Hamlin heads into the 2024 Daytona 500 with more wins than any NASCAR Cup Series driver in the field. Hamlin does not, however, have the most Dayton 500 wins in history. That honor belongs to ...

Richard Petty is one of the most iconic and successful American racing drivers ever, winning seven NASCAR championships and seven Daytona 500s – among several more accolades. Later this month, a 1970 ...

Daytona Beach is still the center of the racing universe twice a year, but for 60 years, there was a third time of year on or around the Fourth of July. For many of those years, the race was known as ...

Introduced in 1969 for NASCAR homologation, the Dodge Charger Daytona saw daylight in 503 units. The following year, Plymouth introduced a largely identical Superbird. However, because NASCAR changed ...

Richard Petty won his first Firecracker 400 in 1975, his 172nd career victory. Richard Petty had won everything at Daytona in February, but not in the summer. His long-awaited Firecracker 400 win came ...