Imagine, for a second, being so famous and talented that at 80 years old you have so many trophies and collectables from the highest level of a sport that you just have to have a yard sale. Thatās the situation NASCAR legend Richard Petty is in right now.
A year after Daniel Suarez became the first Mexican driver to compete full time in NASCARās top series, Darrell Wallace Jr. will be the first black driver to do so since 1971 next season. Heāll replace Aric Almirola, whoās raced for Richard Petty Motorsports for the past six years, in the No. 43 car.
NASCAR icon Richard Petty hasnāt driven his 1970 Superbird stock car that gave a character to Pixarās Cars since the end of the 1970 season, but as he is a regular at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, heās about to fire her up next month.
You can see a lot of cool things at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed, like supercars charging up the hill, or amazing sculptures, and it's all very European. Well, Richard Petty didn't get that memo because he, his Plymouth Belvedere GTX, and his hat brought the America.
Richard Petty is a very famous, very successful, and very old NASCAR driver. So when he said a stupid thing about NASCAR driver Danica Patrick last week, we all let out a collective "ugh" and shook our heads. Just so we know, though, Richard Petty is NOT a sexist. In fact, Richard Petty loves women. A lot.
Richard Petty's long relationship with Chrysler ended with the Dodge Magnum, and in fact for the first time since 1960, Petty racked up nary a single Grand National win in 1978 while driving that car. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Magnum comes from that same winless year, but will its price earn the checkered?
STP, the iconic engine additive brand and logo, long known for its connections to Indy racing greats Andretti, Parnelli Jones, Gordon Johncock and some guy named Richard Petty, has been largely absent for 11 years in major American motorsports.
Fans are unlikely to hurl cans of Miller Lite while hollering "Sacrilege!" at this Ferrari F430, set to race in the British GT Championship. That's right, this Ferrari borrows its STP-themed paint from Richard Petty's old NASCAR racer.
Okay, not the King his own self, but Richard Petty Motorsports will merge with Yates Racing to run four Ford Fusions in the 2010 Sprint Cup. If only it was high-winged Superbirds... [Ford Racing]
Our friends at Popular Mechanics have put together a list of what they consider the top ten most influential crashes in NASCAR history, complete with video. These ten smash-ups were influential not in how they changed the course of a single race, but in how they got us to today's "Car of Tomorrow," a race car that isā¦
We shit you not, but at one point, while attempting to say something, Tom LaSorda totally hijacked and ran off with Homsar's famous "AaAaAaA..." Other highlights? A random appearance by Anthony Edwards, who got flustered when Richard Petty gave him crap about being an open-wheel guy. Kasey Kahne? Boring as hell. Ericā¦
Go ahead. Call Richard Petty a relic. Call him back-asswards on women's issues. Fair game, of course. But never let it be said that the man doesn't have personality. The kids over at thefirehouse.biz, Chrysler's media-only blog, posted a podcast featuring some short interviews with NASCAR drivers past and present, andā¦
