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          Over the course of 34 years, Petty won races in his career, was the first driver to win the NASCAR Cup Championship seven times (the others being Dale.!

          Richard Petty

          2/7/1937

          Record updated 02-Jul-06


          Richard Lee Petty was born in Level Cross, North Carolina, and is a renowned former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver.

          Book Title.

        1. A simple biography of the NASCAR driver who is the only driver to have won Winston Cup races.
        2. Over the course of 34 years, Petty won races in his career, was the first driver to win the NASCAR Cup Championship seven times (the others being Dale.
        3. Richard Petty Biography: The Life And Legacy Of A Motorsports Icon by Fred K. Ed ; Approx.
        4. Richard George Petty, the future husband of Anna Sophia Somerset, was born in Cross Hills, Kildwick, Yorkshire, the third of four sons to.

          5. He is most well-known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat, but with 76 victories and a lone Daytona 500), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone.

          (A 1972 rule change eliminated races under 250 miles in length, reducing the schedule to 30 [now 36] races.) Petty is arguably the greatest NASCAR driver of all time.

          He also collected a record number of poles (127) and over 700 top-ten finishes in his 1,185 starts, including 513 consecutive starts from 1971-1989.

          He also won seven Daytona 500s and nine Most Popular Driver awards.

          Petty is a second generation driver. His father, Lee Petty, won the first D