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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shock 2011 Daytona 500 champion Trevor Bayne has always carried an air of "what if " regarding his motorsports career and will make a NASCAR comeback behind the wheel this weekend after transitioning ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Richard Petty may still reign as NASCAR’s King, but with Jimmie Johnson wresting control of Petty’s old race team, he is definitively not the boss. The Hall of Famer ...

Richard Petty calls for NASCAR to change its title format after Denny Hamlin championship loss at Phoenix despite Hamlin’s ...

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 ...