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Oct 27, 2016 · Smithfield Foods & Richard Petty team up to build the ultimate giveaway car: A street-legal Hemi-powered clone of Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere stock car!
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Jul 2, 2019 · Richard Petty's most dominant season came in 1967, when his blue Plymouth stormed to 27 wins in 48 starts and his second championship. Here, Petty's No. 43 works to the low side of rival...
Petty’s 10-race winning streak in 1967 is likely an unreachable record for today’s racers. Petty said the streak gained significant attention at win No. 9 when Chrysler flew him to New York...
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- Career Year vs. Career
- Winning Percentage
- Short-Track Success
- Daytona Disappointment
- Dirt Demon
- Setting The Pace
- Short-Run Speed
Here’s a mind-boggling stat: Petty won more races in 1967 alone than 14 different Hall of Fame drivers won in their entire careers. By comparison, Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Class of 2021) and Fred Lorenzen (Class of 2015) won 26 races each, Joe Weatherly (Class of 2015) won 25 and brothers Terry (Class of 2016) and Bobby Labonte(Class of 2020), won 22 an...
With 27 victories in 48 starts, Petty won 56.25 percent of the races he ran in 1967. That winning percentage is yet another record Petty set during his magical season. And to put that number in context, for a driver to win 56.25 percent of their starts in today’s 36-race schedule means they’d have to win 20 races. Since NASCAR consolidated its sche...
Hard to believe, but in winning 27 races in 1967, Petty won on only one track longer than 1.00-mile, the 1.375-mile Darlington Raceway, where he swept both the spring race and the Southern 500 on Labor Day. All of Petty’s other 25 victories came on tracks 1.00-mile or shorter in length.
Richard Petty is synonymous with success at Daytona International Speedway, where he won a record seven Daytona 500s and three July 4th races. But in 1967, Petty went 0-3 at Daytona, finishing fifth in his 100-mile Daytona 500 qualifying race, eighth in the 500 and 11th in the Firecracker 400. The 11th-place run in Firecracker was Petty’s lowest fi...
Of Richard Petty’s 27 victories in 1967, 11 of them came on dirt tracks. Petty swept dirt races at Columbia Speedway and the dirt track at Virginia State Fairgrounds (now Richmond Raceway). And here’s an odd nugget: Petty swept both races at Hickory Speedway in North Carolina. The Hickory 250 was won by Petty in April on the track’s dirt surface. I...
Another record set by Petty in 1967 was laps led, with 5,543. All told, Petty led 44 percent of the laps he completed during the season. Here’s another odd little quirk: Petty led at least one lap in 41 of 48 races. But he didn’t lead any laps in the Daytona 500 or the Firecracker 400, the July 4th race at Daytona International Speedway. Likewise, ...
Of Petty’s 27 victories in 1967, the shortest came in the Islip 300 on Long Island’s Islip Speedway, a 0.200-mile track. The total distance covered in the 300-lap race was a mere 60 miles, which took 1 hour, 24 minutes and 51 seconds to compete, meaning the average speed was a glacial 42.428 mph. Islip was the only race Petty won in 1967 where his ...
Mar 21, 2023 · The 1967 Plymouth Belvedere is a symbol of Petty’s success and his impact on NASCAR history. This car, painted in the iconic “Petty Blue” color, became a legend on the track and helped cement Petty’s place in racing history. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at the 1967 Richard Petty car and its legacy.
Jan 18, 2023 · Petty won his second Cup championship that season. He also won 27—27!—races. And, to add cream to the top of the pie, he won 10 in a row. There were 49 races in 1967, so Petty “lost” only 22.
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Mar 8, 2014 · Richard Petty in his Big Blue number 43 made a shambles of the stock car record books in 1967 winning almost everything in sight.
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