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 ...

Allison's pit stop handed the race lead to six-time Daytona 500 winner and seven-time Winston Cup Series champion Richard Petty ... on the final lap in 1979, and while Petty was in a position ...

Feb. 19, 1979, saw a historic Daytona 500 take place, and not just because Richard Petty ended his 45-race losing streak or ...

2024 NASCAR Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony - Source: Getty Richard Petty, often just referred ... he became the first driver to win the Daytona 500 three times. 1979 was marked by an iconic ...

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 ...

The Daytona 500 is one of motor racing's iconic events, with the "Great American Race" something every NASCAR driver dreams of winning. No one has done that more than Richard Petty, who brought ...

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 ...

DAYTONA BEACH — The seventh Daytona 500, in 1965, was dramatically shortened by rain — just 133 of 200 laps were completed before rain halted things and Fred Lorenzen left with the wet trophy. The ...

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.