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The 1984 Firecracker 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on July 4, 1984, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. [2]Richard Petty, driving the #43 Pontiac for Curb Racing, won the race.
Richard Petty is an American racing driver who competed in the NASCAR Cup Series championship from 1958 to 1992. Over the course of his racing career, Petty amassed 200 victories in the top series of NASCAR, becoming the most prolific winner in series history.
Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937), nicknamed "the King", is an American former stock car racing driver who competed from 1958 to 1992 in the former NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series), most notably driving the No. 43 Plymouth/Pontiac for Petty Enterprises. He is one of the members of the Petty ...
Overall, thirty-six different drivers have won the Championship, [2] with Richard Petty, [6] Dale Earnhardt, [7] and Jimmie Johnson holding the record for most titles at seven. Johnson has the record for most consecutive Drivers' Championships, winning five from 2006 to 2010 . [ 8 ]
Richard Petty had not won at Dover Downs International Speedway since 1979 and had not won the track's spring/early summer race since 1969. But he battled Bill Elliott, Tim Richmond, and Harry Gant to the win, his 199th Winston Cup win. Gant led 218 laps but fell out while running in the top five 108 laps from the end, while Elliott cut a tire ...
43–Richard Petty; 1–Donnie Allison; 27–Benny Parsons; 28–Buddy Baker; 11–Cale Yarborough; 9–Bill Elliott; 90–Ricky Rudd; 05–Dick Brooks; 72–Joe Millikan; Waltrip won this race following a fierce duel with Richard Petty; they exchanged the lead eight times in the final five laps and three times on the last lap alone.
On the 55th anniversary of Richard Petty's last victory at Darlington, his driver Erik Jones wins on the same track. Why Richard Petty left early and missed No. 43 winning at Darlington for first ...
The 1992 Hooters 500 was the 29th and final race of the 1992 NASCAR season. It was held on November 15, 1992, at Atlanta Motor Speedway and is widely considered the greatest NASCAR race of all time, [2] [3] with three stories dominating the race: the debut of Jeff Gordon in the Winston Cup Series, the final race of seven-time champion Richard Petty's thirty-five-year career, [4] [5] and the ...