On the latest episode of the Petty Family Racing podcast, NASCAR Cup Series champion Richard Petty held a Q&A session.

Richard Petty, with a record 200 Cup Series wins, seven championships and a first-ballot inductee into the Hall of Fame, is considered NASCAR’s greatest driver. He is spending the season celebrating ...

I’m blessed to have my dad still around after all these years. He turns 88 today, the second day of July. He’s always been such a big part of mine and my sisters’ lives that I know they feel the same.

Richard Petty is 86 years old now, and his seven NASCAR Cup championships and record 200 wins at the sport’s highest level came long ago. But Petty is still going strong in Level Cross (pop. 3,694), ...

Richard Petty, 86, passed away on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. He was born on April 12, 1938, in Oklahoma City, to R. M. (Pat) and Jennie Petty. He grew up in Clovis and Portales, New Mexico. After ...

A rather famous 2009 Dodge Challenger extensively overhauled by Petty Garage in late 2010 will be auctioned off early next month by Mecum Auctions and is expected to sell for between $160,000 and $180 ...

Daytona felt like a different world to Richard Petty. It was 1959, and Petty was driving a pickup truck through the tunnel as his trailer and race car followed. As he gazed into the distance, Turn 1 ...

Most remarkably, Petty had a marvelous run from May 25 to September 21. Over that 11-race stretch, he won six times and finished second in the other five races. His Dodges completed 3,187 of the 3,188 ...

Randleman, N.C. — Ahead of this weekend’s NASCAR All-Star Race, a return to the legendary North Wilkesboro Speedway, the man who won more there than any other reflected on a life in racing with WRAL ...

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 ...