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In Autumn 1968, Richard Petty left the Plymouth NASCAR Racing Team for Ford's. Charlie Grey, director of the Ford stock car program, felt that hiring Petty would send the message that "money rules none". However, the Superbird was designed specifically to lure Petty back to Plymouth for the 1970 season.
Richard Petty, the 1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion. This would be his 4th of his 7 championships. The 1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 24th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 1st modern-era NASCAR Cup series season. The season began on Sunday January 23 and ended on Sunday November 12.
The 1972 Rebel 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event that was held on April 16, ... '72 Plymouth 292 27 running 3 15 18 Joe Frasson Mario Frasson Cement Co.
Thanks to his 28 Top 10 finishes (25 Top 5 finishes and 8 victories), Petty went on to win his 4th NASCAR Cup Series championship. 1972 was a year of change in other ways, as it was the last year where Petty would campaign a Plymouth-based race car; as in the middle of the year, he debuted to drive a newly built 1972 Dodge Charger in a few ...
Plymouth had 31 wins and Dodge had 18; both lost the points title 1967: 10 Plymouth had 31 wins, but lost the points title 1968: 21 1969: 26 1970: Dodge: 17 Plymouth and Dodge cars ran unopposed most of season after Ford dropped out, had 21 wins, but lost the points title 1971: Plymouth: 22 1972: Chevrolet: 10 1973: 7 Mercury had 11 wins, but ...
He won the 1967 NASCAR national Sportsman division championship. [1] After that season he moved south to race in NASCAR. He started racing in the NASCAR Grand National division in 1968, and was the series Rookie of the Year. [1] In 1969, he competed in NASCAR's Grand American division, a division of smaller pony cars. [1] He won 12 of 26 races ...
In 1970 Plymouth developed their own version of the Dodge Daytona, the Plymouth Superbird. It had the features Richard wanted, and he switched back to Plymouth for the 1970 season. 1971 was a year of "threes" for Petty, he won his third Daytona 500 and third championship, edging over Virginia driver, James Hylton. Richard would win twenty-one ...
The Generation 2 in NASCAR refers to the cars used between 1967 and 1980. The second generation of stock cars featured stock body with a modified frame, and modified chassis became part of the sport with entities such as Holman-Moody, Banjo Matthews, and Hutchenson-Pagan building chassis for teams. [1]