Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. The victory gave Petty his 200th win in NASCAR Winston Cup Series competition, extending his longstanding ...
President Ronald Reagan gave the command "Gentlemen, start your engines!" by phone from the White House. Yarborough, Allison, Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty took turns leading the early laps of the race, but Petty and Allison fell out early with mechanical problems. Yarborough clearly had the strongest car, leading 51 of the first 100 laps.
The NASCAR Winston Cup Series era was the period of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing from 1971 to 2003. In 1971 ... Ronald Reagan with Richard Petty.
President Ronald Reagan was in attendance, the first sitting president to attend a NASCAR race. Reagan celebrated the milestone with Petty and his family in victory lane. [18] In early 1988, Petty traveled to Australia to help promote a NASCAR exhibition race at the then new Calder Park Thunderdome, the
It's President Reagan's birthday. He's one of two US leaders who worked to Make America Great Again. President Trump shares that role, along with a devotion to the nation and its people.
In his first full season, he won five races and finished sixth in the 1955 NASCAR Grand National points standings. In 1958, Johnson won six races. In 1959, Johnson won five more NASCAR Grand National races (including a win from the pole position at the 1959 Hickory 250); by this time he was regarded as one of the best short-track racers in the ...
President Reagan, shown in 1981, based many of his policies on ideas from the Heritage Foundation publication "The Mandate for Leadership." Project 2025 makes up a majority of the latest edition ...
Ronald Reagan was an optimist, another striking distinction from the darkness of the Trumpian party. Surely, he wouldn’t be sunny about how Republicans have left his legacy behind.