NASCAR’s recent decision to enforce a uniform firesuit policy for Craftsman Truck ... Similarly, incidents like the 1981 pit fire involving Richard Petty’s team and a major pit road fire ...

He has not won a race since 1984. His last championship came in 1979. But Richard Petty's big sunglasses, cowboy hat and that No. 43 still loom large over stock-car racing. Petty raced for a ...

Former NASCAR Cup Series driver Richard Petty shared a solution for the problems with Superspeedway racing. On his official X account, the seven-time Cup Series champion stated that the cars ...

So you want to go after that guy. You want to beat him more than anybody else," says Darrell Waltrip about Richard Petty on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. He has not won a race since 1984.

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 time.