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The 1970 Rebel 400 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on May 9, 1970, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina.The race is known for a crash involving Richard Petty that inspired NASCAR to implement the window net, a mandatory safety feature in today's NASCAR vehicles.
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 ...
Richard Petty: Petty Enterprises: Dodge: 199 $35,750 40 Crash (+50 yards) 175 3 32 72 Benny Parsons: L. G. DeWitt: Chevrolet: 199 $23,680 16 +1 Lap 170 4 11 54 Lennie Pond: Ronnie Elder Chevrolet: 198 $16,890 0 +2 Laps 160 5 13 12 Neil Bonnett: Neil Bonnett: Chevrolet: 197 $14,000 0 +3 Laps 155 6 2 81 Terry Ryan: Bill Monaghan Chevrolet: 196 ...
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 who was involved in the lap 10 crash, had a crew member, one Maurice Petty involved in a post crash scuffle with NASCAR officials. Maurice was suspended by NASCAR for the next two Cup Series races. Bobby Allison's victory would make him the last Ford driver to win this particular race until Bill Elliott in 1992.
The wreck allowed Richard Petty, at the time of the crash over one-half lap behind the leaders, to claim his sixth Daytona 500 win. As Petty made his way to Victory Lane to celebrate, a fight erupted between Yarborough, Donnie Allison and his brother, Bobby , at the site of the backstretch wreck.
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 ...
Kenny Hemphill, Tim Richmond (12th-place finish), and Bob Riley would start their NASCAR Cup Series careers at this race while Janet Guthrie and Nelson Oswald would make this their last races. [5] Guthrie was forced out of the race when her engine failed after 134 laps. [7] Richard Petty broke his neck as a result of a crash on lap 57. [2] [8]