Each week, The Athletic asks the same 12 questions to a different race car driver. Up next: “The King,” Richard Petty — NASCAR’s winningest driver and a seven-time series champion. Petty, 88, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Having your number retired is the ultimate honor in sports. It's the ultimate nod to what that number, and subsequently the athlete, meant to the sport. While individual teams in the major sports ...

Since NASCAR was spawned from the moonshine trade, it seems natural that its most iconic driver would add his name to the newest batch. Sugarlands Distilling Co. announced on Wednesday that it’s ...

Richard Petty, the “King” of NASCAR, has long been a vocal and influential figure within the sport. With a career that spans decades and a record 200 Cup Series wins, Petty commands respect not only ...

Some kings wear robes. Others wear crowns. Richard Petty wore a cowboy hat and sunglasses. During his reign as NASCAR’s sovereign ruler from 1958 to 1992, Petty won 200 NASCAR Cup Series races, seven ...

Kyle Petty feels lucky and blessed to still have his father so active in NASCAR. "He's Richard Petty, and he always has been." I’m blessed to have my dad still around after all these years. He turns ...

NASCAR legend Richard Petty seems to think Shane Van Gisbergen did something wrong when Van Gisbergen won his way into the 2025 Cup Series playoffs this past weekend in Mexico City. I know, how dare a ...

View post: Mavericks' Cooper Flagg Suffers Injury Scare on Wednesday Sunday’s race in Mexico had an interesting connection to Richard Petty. The last time the NASCAR Cup Series held an international ...

The excitement was palpable amongst the fan base that turned out to see the NASCAR Cup Series debut at Mexico City's Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez and compete in the series' first international ...