RICHARD PETTY Autographed Legends Magazine Cover

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RICHARD PETTY Autographed Legends Magazine Cover
Cover Only - Not the entire magazine
November/December 1993 Issue
Richard Lee Petty
(born July 2, 1937), nicknamed
The King
, is a former
NASCAR
driver who raced from 1958 to 1992 in the former NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup Series (now called the
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
). He was the first driver to win the NASCAR Cup Championship seven times (
Dale Earnhardt
and
Jimmie Johnson
are the only other drivers to accomplish this feat),
[1]
winning a record 200 races during his career,
[1]
winning the
Daytona 500
a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races
[1]
(10 of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone.
[2]
Statistically, he is the most accomplished driver in the history
[3]
of the sport and is one of the most respected figures in motorsports as a whole. He also collected a record number of poles (127) and over 700 Top 10 finishes in his record 1,184 starts, including 513 consecutive starts from 1971–1989. Petty was the only driver to ever win in his 500th race start, until
Matt Kenseth
joined him in 2013. He was inducted into the inaugural class of the
NASCAR Hall of Fame
in 2010.
[4]
Petty remains very active, as both a NASCAR team owner (
Richard Petty Motorsports
) in the Cup Series and owner of Petty's Garage (car restoration and modification shop) in Level Cross, North Carolina.