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 ... The 67th ...

There are few racing venues with as much prestige as Darlington Raceway. The 1.3-mile egg-shaped track is in its 75th year ...

The fuselage-styled Mopar soldiered on NASCAR tracks through 1977, winning nearly 40 races and two championships with Richard Petty ... race-spec 426 Hemi still roars like thunder, and the car ...

Not bad for a guy who made only $760 his first year of racing. 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 ...

1975: Another record — only 14 cars finished the race. 1976: Richard Petty and David Pearson wrecked on the last lap. Pearson limped across the line to win. 1977: Janet Guthrie became the first female ...

Former NASCAR Cup Series driver Richard Petty shared a solution for the problems with Superspeedway racing ... So that's the first thing to really separate the cars because that's the way how ...

Retired seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Richard ... in the #84 car. Trump attended the 2020 Daytona 500 during his first term as the United States President. He served as the race's grand ...

Christopher Bell earned his third NASCAR Cup Series race in a row after winning Sunday's race at Phoenix. He's the first to ...