There’s a place in Randleman, North Carolina where racing royalty lives on through gleaming chrome, vibrant paint jobs, and the unmistakable aura of motorsport history – the Richard Petty Museum. It’s ...

Explore Richard Petty's NASCAR dominance in 1975 as a new points system fueled his legendary run, reshaping the Cup Series forever.

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Win on Sunday, sell on Monday,” the mantra that ostensibly explains why auto manufacturers participate in motorsports, ...

In-N-Out Burger buys warehouse property in Wilson County at Speedway Industrial Park. In-N-Out Burger continues to show an all-in effort when it comes to a Middle Tennessee expansion. The company has ...

Richard Petty, one of NASCAR’s most iconic voices, has spoken out about two issues he sees hurting the sport. The absence of dominant drivers and the complications of the modern points system. Petty ...

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 ...

A Mopar guru received a phone call one day. Someone on the other end of the line told him he had a rare car stashed away, describing it as being in "pretty nice shape, not bad." But when the words ...

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 ...