Disappointed, Petty left stock-car racing and spent a year on the drag-racing circuit. The following year NASCAR introduced new rules that made Petty’s Plymouth 426-inch hemispherical-head engine illegal. He won his first Daytona 500 (NASCAR’s most prestigious event) in 1964 and also claimed his first Grand National Cup. In February 1960 he earned his first victory in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Richard joined NASCAR as a driver in 1958, and in 1959 he accumulated nine top-10 finishes and was named Rookie of the Year. The elder Petty was a three-time winner of the Grand National Cup as well as founder of Petty Enterprises racing team. Petty came from a racing family his father, Lee Petty, also raced stock cars. Petty won 200 NASCAR races in his career and collected 7 Winston Cups (known as the Grand National Cup prior to 1970), both records. Firecracker 400 winner David Pearson gets a victors kiss 7/4 after edging Richard Petty at Daytona International Speedway.
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Richard Petty, in full Richard Lee Petty, (born July 2, 1937, Level Cross, N.C., U.S.), American stock-car racer who was the most successful driver in the history of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). Lee Petty, Kyle Petty, Richard Petty and family and friends celebrate Richards win at the Talladega 500 on Augin Talladega, Alabama. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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