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First Name

Richard

Last Name

Petty

Date of Birth

02 July 1937

Build

Slim

Eye Color

Brown - Dark

Hair Color

Brown - Dark

Place of Birth

Level Cross, North Carolina, USA

Star Sign

Cancer

Ethnicity

White

Claim to Fame

Seven-time NASCAR Champion

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Couple Profile

The King of stock car racing, Richard Petty retired from NASCAR competition after the 1992 season. During his storied career, he won 200 Winston Cup race (a feat that will never be equaled), seven Winston Cup championships (tied by Dale Earnhardt in 1994), and seven Daytona 500`s. His 200th win came in the July 4th, 1984 Firecracker 400 at Daytona, when he beat Cale Yarborough by mere inches with President Reagan in attendance. Petty remains a fixture on the Winston Cup circuit. He still owns the familar number 43 STP Pontiac team, and you can still find him signing autographs for his legion of fans. His son Kyle is currently a NASCAR Winston Cup series driver.

Couple Profile Source

www.us.imdb.com/name/nm0678809/bio

Full Name at Birth

Richard Lee Petty

Wikipedia Text

Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. "The King", as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone. (A 1972 rule change eliminated races under 250 miles (400 km) in length, reducing the schedule to 30 races.) Petty is widely considered one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time. He also collected a record number of poles (127) and over 700 top-ten finishes in his 1,185 starts, including 513 consecutive starts from 1971�1989.

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