April 23 - This day in Petty history
1960 - Lee finishes 2nd and Richard finishes 3rd in a 200 lap race at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina.
1961 - Richard wins from the pole in the Richmond 200 at Atlantic Rural Fairgrounds in Richmond VA.
1962 - Richard finishes 5th in a 200 lap race at Bowman-Gray Stadium.
1967 - Richard wins the Virginia 500 at Martinsville.
1972 - Richard wins the Gwyn Staley 400 at North Wilkesboro.
1978 - Richard finishes 3rd in the Virginia 500 at Martinsville.
still exists as a ghost as seen from above..strange the track still exists as its been closed since late 60's..origionally dirt then paved w a...
@paul crawford started 12 years ago - replies: 1
In the late 60s and early 70s my husband used to help with Freddy Smith's race car and we were at Concord, Metrolina, Carolina, Gaffney and Shelby...
@Diane Whitlow started 12 years ago - replies: 0
I attended the 1980 Mason-Dixon 500 in Dover. I was only 18 and still in HS. I was a huge NASCAR fan and photographing NASCAR was a hobby. After...
@Mark Palczewski started 12 years ago - replies: 3
Hi everyone, Ive been researching the old speedway here in my hometown of New Bremen for about the past twenty years, an addicting, fun project....
@Dave Kramer started 12 years ago - replies: 7
I would like to get Terry's 2003 Darlington Win car, the Kelleogg's "Got Milk" Chevy autographed, does anyone know Terry's official fan club...
@Jim Wilmore started 12 years ago - replies: 1
Bennett, North Carolina Bennett Speedway By Dennis Andrews Bennett Man Builds Racetrack That was the headline of a June 21, 1956 Chatham...
@Dennis Andrews started 12 years ago - replies: 11
Is he as much of a pain as a driver as he is commentator now or just good fun. I think him and mikey going at it would be goood TV!
@Lance Fowler started 12 years ago - replies: 0
Saw BB at the first Columbia Speedway clean up thought he was a hot shoe ace out of FL come to find out he is a reagler guy number one in my book
@Leon Phillips started 12 years ago - replies: 0
FROM BERNIE BIERNACKI WITH VOTING FOR THE NASCAR HALL OF FAME CLASS FOR 2013 COMING UP VERY SOON, FANS OF FRED LORENZEN NEED TO SHOW THEIR...
@Bernie Biernacki started 12 years ago - replies: 0
