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Kyle drove for Petty Enterprises in the early 80s but eventually left for Wood Brothers in the 7 car. He wouldn't return to Petty until 1999, when he also became CEO. At some point, Kyle basically got forced out when Richard sold the race team and merged with Evernham's team.
Jun 19, 2023 · On October 9, 1983, Richard Petty won his 198th at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the Miller High Life 500. Four hours later, Ken Squier did a stand-up in the Charlotte Motor Speedway press box announcing Richard Petty's car had a massively oversized engine and left side tires on the right side of the car. The result, a 104 point penalty and a $35,000 fine (roughly $105,000 in today's money).
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Hall of Famer Richard Petty(2010) won a record 200 premier series races, the final one being the 1984 Firecracker 400, which was witnessed in person by President Ronald Reagan. While that race understandably made front-page news coast-to-coast, Petty’s 198thvictory, which happened less than a year earlier, also created national headlines, but unfor...
At the 0.25-mile Flemington Speedway in New Jersey, Hall of Famer Mike Stefanik(2021) bested a 36-car all-star field of NASCAR Featherlite Modified Tour (now Whelen Modified Tour) racers to claim victory in the Torco Racing Fuels Challenge of Champions. The victory was the ninth of 10 Modified race wins Stefanik would score that season, as he captu...
In his run to a second NASCAR premier series championship, Hall of Famer Terry Labonte (2016) came up big in the UAW-GM Quality 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Labonte entered the race 111 points behind his Hendrick Motorsports teammate and fellow Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon (2019). But midway through the 334-lap race, Gordon’s car began to overheat...
It was a fabulous afternoon on the Occoneechee Speedway dirt track in Hillsborough, North Carolina, for Herb Thomas, who won a 150-lap race in front of 12,000 fired-up race fans. Driving his iconic Hudson Hornet, Thomas scored his sixth of seven race victories on the season, earning $1,000 for taking the checkered flag. The season would conclude wi...
During the ’72 season, Hall of Famer Bobby Allison (2011) won 10 races and posted a career-high 12 poles. One of Allison’s highlight moments came in the National 500, the annual fall race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Allison was 15 seconds ahead and apparently headed for an easy victory when Hall of Famer Richard Petty (2010), who was running secon...
At Memphis-Arkansas Speedway, a 1.5-mile dirt track in LeHi, Arkansas, Hall of Famer Buck Baker(2013) put a hurting on the NASCAR field, finishing five laps ahead of second-place Dick Rathman. The total race purse was $10,950, the second-biggest payout of the season, behind only the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. For the victory, Baker and car...
When NASCAR visits Talladega Superspeedway, the action is always fast and furious and the 1998 Winston 500 was no exception. In a battle of Hall of Famers, Dale Jarrett (2014) held off a determined last-lap charge by Jeff Gordon (2019) to win his third and final race of the season, this one by a mere 0.14 seconds. For the victory Jarrett earned $11...
Private Cleveland O. Petty was a patrooper in Easy Company. He was a runner of Captain Sobel in their training at Camp Mckall according to the episode Currahee. Sobel calls Petty for the map and thought that they were in a wrong position and leads his men into an ambush. At the time of enlistment, Petty was single, without dependents, stood 69 inches tall, weighed 157 pounds, and had an ...
Mar 13, 2022 · COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH) – It’s been 25 years since 3-year-old Cody Stepp went missing in Columbus, and now his mother is making what could be a final plea to her community for answers. No ...
Cleveland O. Petty (19 May 1924-6 March 1961) WWII 101st Airborne Div, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Easy Company "Band of Brothers" Husband of Helen. Father of Bonnie Sue. Son of Frank Marion Petty & Georgia Ann (Hardwick) Petty. Brother of Margaret & Lonnie. Petty, who went by his middle name O’Neill, joined Easy at Ft. Bragg. Assigned to 2nd Platoon, he made the jump ...
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May 20, 2022 · Former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Stan Lynch are back on road for their first tour in 30 years. ... to “There’s a dream I keep having where my brother comes to ...
