I am not a racing fan. For years, the joke was on me at the Mansfield News Journal. One of my first assignments at the newspaper in the summer of 1990 was to help cover the IndyCar race at the ...

Only Lee Petty had ... was in racing, in business, in life, he remained true to his roots. A long-time tradition found Johnson cooking breakfast for family and friends at a shop near his house ...

Lee, won 42 times on the dirt — the most of any driver. "He would say, 'Stay out of the holes,'" Petty said with a laugh. "He had his way of driving, and I had my way of driving. I learned the ...

N.C., shop and is relocating to the RCR facility in Welcome, N.C. RCR will supply chassis and engineering support to the Petty team, and Wallace will race with engines built by ECR Engines ...

RELATED: 2025 Daytona Speedweeks schedule | SHOP: Daytona 500 gear Maynard ... in the 40-lap Daytona 500 qualifying race held on Feb. 20, outlasting Lee Petty, Rex White, Speedy Thompson, Junior ...

Petty was also a part of the family-owned NASCAR racing team. Founded in 1949 as Lee Petty Engineering, the team was later renamed Petty Enterprises. Apart from Lee, Richard and Kyle Petty ...

No-one in any frontline racing series has even come close, nor is ever likely to. The reason he was at Charlotte that June day of ’49 was to watch his father Lee ... Petty’ or The King’.” Like Richard ...

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Bobby Allison, founder of racing’s “Alabama Gang” and ... Bud Moore, Pearson and Lee Petty. “Bobby Allison personified the term ‘racer,’” France said in statement.

The Petty family is one of the most legendary dynasties in American motorsports. Lee Petty set on a racing path in the middle of the 20th ... Motor Club and manages his high-performance speed shop, ...

Presently, the now-86-year-old driver is working on several ventures such as a NASCAR team, a high-performance automotive shop ... Petty owned the race team founded by his father Lee Petty ...

A. Petty Enterprises, previously known as Lee Petty Engineering, stood as a prominent NASCAR racing team headquartered in Level Cross, North Carolina, USA. Founded by Lee Petty alongside his sons ...