During the interview, Dale Jr asked how Lee Petty and their family overcame that injury during their Daytona stint in 1961. Richard Petty exclaimed, “He had a rod in his neck, a rod in a leg.
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. You ...
forcing Dodge to develop the more aerodynamic Charger 500 and the radical Daytona. In 1970, Bobby Isaac won the series for Dodge. The following year, Richard Petty did the same for Plymouth in the ...
The sky is the limit, as this 1975 Dodge Charger Daytona currently available on ... especially on NASCAR circuits where Richard Petty continued his reign as the king. But for 1975, Chrysler ...
Byron is just the fifth driver to win the Daytona 500 in consecutive years. Richard Petty (1973, 1974), Cale Yarborough (1983, 1984), Sterling Marlin (1994, 1995), and Denny Hamlin (2019 ...
It's only fitting that "The King" Richard Petty holds the record for most all-time wins in the Daytona 500 with 7 victories. Other drivers with multiple wins include: Cale Yarborough (4), Bobby ...
Retired seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Richard Petty was seen with the 45th and currently the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, prior to the start of Sunday's Daytona 500 ...
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.