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“I did plenty wrong,
but they did wronger.”
—Richard Petty, on winning
Petty recalls. “It wasn’t that I knew what to do, I
knew what they did. You’d see some and say, ‘I want
to drive like him.' But I’ve seen some, where I said,
‘I don’t want to drive like that.’ You just develop
your own style, whatever the circumstances are, with
the equipment you got and the ability you have.’’
Petty’s natural ability allowed him to forge ahead
on the track. He quickly perfected his own finesse
type style of driving, and he wasn’t afraid to get in
the thick of the action.
“My object was to win,’’ he says. “If I had to run
hard I would, if I didn’t have to run hard, I didn’t.
Our strategy was don’t see how for you can get
ahead, just see if you can win the race.”
And the wins came for Petty’ like no other driv
er in the history of the sport. Within 10 years after
his first NASCAR race, a convertible division non
points event in Columbia, S.C., in 1958, Petty had
attained 75 wins and two driver’s championships. It
wasn’t long before he was dubbed “The King" by a
team of reporters on the racing circuit.
“In ’67, we just dominated,” Petty says of his
banner year, in which he entered Victory Lane a
record 27 times, including 10 w’ins in a row. “We
had a group of reporters who traveled together,
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A youthful Petty poses with his 1967 Plymouth.
American Profile •
Photo courtesy of Petty Enterprises
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