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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 ...
Petty's fans were also mostly Dodge fans, so when word got out about the Mirada, over 15,000 people attended just to watch Petty test. Unfortunately for Richard, the Dodge's top speed averaged at 186 miles per hour, about 8 miles per hour slower than his fellow GM and Ford competitors. So, Petty abandoned the Dodge Mirada, and purchased a Buick ...
Petty won 200 races from 1960 to 1984. Of those, 196 wins came with Petty Enterprises, mainly in the No. 43 but also in Nos. 41 and 42 from 1962 to 1966. Petty ran two dirt races for owner Don Robertson in 1970 at Columbia Speedway and North Carolina State Fairgrounds as part of a deal with Petty Enterprises, winning both starts.
The 1974 National 500 was a NASCAR ... The 500 would be the last race for owner Ray Fox, his #3 Dodge Charger finished 29th after a ... Richard Petty '74 Dodge: 34. ...
Richard Petty (4) Petty Enterprises (8) 43 Dodge Plymouth (7) 31: 3 8 28 8,701.4 127.9 [58] [59] 1973: Benny Parsons: L.G. DeWitt: 72 Chevrolet Mercury (2) 28: 0 1 21 7,173.8 67.15 [60] [61] 1974: Richard Petty (5) Petty Enterprises (9) 43 Dodge: 30: 7 10 23 5,037.75 567.45 [62] [63] 1975: Richard Petty (6) Petty Enterprises (10) 43 Dodge: 30: ...
Stellantis tells owners of 2005–2010 Dodge Challenger, Charger, Magnum and Chrysler 300 cars to park them until they have replaced faulty Takata airbags.
Richard Petty debuted a hand-built (by his brother, the team's chief engine builder Maurice) small-block Chrysler engine and won going away. The win put him back into the point lead. Petty stated the small block cost $50,000; “so we're still in the red right now.” Top ten results. 43 - Richard Petty; 11 - Cale Yarborough; 12 - Bobby Allison
Bobby Allison, making his debut in Bud Moore's Ford, fell out after 40 laps, while Richard Petty finished 16th after rearend failure; Petty was driving the 1974 Dodge Charger for the final time as the car's Winston Cup Grand National eligibility ended after this race. 11 - Cale Yarborough; 72 - Benny Parsons; 21 - David Pearson; 5 - Neil Bonnett