Jimmie Johnson, Richard Petty headline weekend at Dover Petty, the seven-time Cup Series champion, won the inaugural Cup Series race at Dover in 1969. The 86-year-old raced his way to victory lane ...

Legacy Motor Club revealed on Wednesday a paint scheme for the organization’s No. 43 Toyota that will pay tribute to the ...

With more and more races separating him from that last win, talk of retirement began to swirl. By the '90s, a new Petty -- Richard's son Kyle -- was beginning to make his mark. In October 1991 ...

Richard Lee Petty was born on July 2, 1937, in Randleman, N.C., the son of one of stock-car racing's early pioneers, Lee Petty, who in the fifties would win three Grand National championships.