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Two car-lengths back is A. J. Foyt, Richard Petty takes it into the tri-oval!" Arute: "Here they come to the stripe, Richard Petty's STP Olds-... Waltrip dives to the inside, Petty almost puts him off in the grass, and Richard Petty will win the Daytona 500! The Petty crew, jumping up and down on pit road congratulating each other!
Petty's IROC Porsche 911 from the 1970s Petty's car used for his 1979 Daytona 500 win, on display at Daytona USA 1983 racecar On February 14, 1971, Petty won his third Daytona 500, driving a brand-new (for 1971) Plymouth Road Runner and beating Buddy Baker , by little more than a car length en route to another historic year, making him the ...
Trevor Bayne and Bobby Allison are the youngest and oldest Daytona 500 winners, winning at the ages of 20 years and 1 day in 2011 and 50 years, 2 months, and 11 days old in 1988, respectively. [15] [16] Petty also holds the distinction of having the longest time between his first and last wins, 17 years between the 1964 and 1981 races. [17]
A look at the all-time winners list year by year in the NASCAR Daytona 500, which began in 1959. ... 1979: Richard Petty. 1978: Bobby Allison. 1977: Cale Yarborough. 1976: David Pearson.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the Daytona 500 in 2023. Here's the history of NASCAR's "Great American Race," including other past winners. ... Richard Petty has the most 500 victories with seven ...
It had the features Richard wanted, and he switched back to Plymouth for the 1970 season. 1971 was a year of "threes" for Petty, he won his third Daytona 500 and third championship, edging over Virginia driver, James Hylton. Richard would win twenty-one races that year, making him the first stock car racing driver in history to win over $1,000,000.
Denny Hamlin will go for his fourth Daytona 500 win. Here's where that would rank him among all-time Daytona 500 winners, including Richard Petty. ... 1971, 1973, 1974, 1979 and 1981. Petty ...
In perhaps the most famous and most well known NASCAR race, the 1979 Daytona 500, held February 18, 1979, a race that Richard Petty won, Waltrip was a pre-race favorite to win the race. As the first NASCAR race covered "flag to flag" on national television, Cale Yarborough , and Donnie Allison , while battling for the lead on the last lap, came ...