NASCAR 75: One of a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR, as Autoweek races to the 2023 Daytona 500.
The greatest racer in American sports-car history kicked off his NASCAR Cup career ... in Canada.
First, though, he gave Richard a test run of sorts. On July 12, six days before the Cup race in Toronto, Petty made hisdebut in a Convertible Division race at Columbia Speedway in central South Carolina. He finished sixth, five laps behind. His feet officially wet, the Pettys rolled off to Canada for the next weekend’s race.
Lee, one of NASCAR’s pioneer drivers, also was in the field, a fact that would become all too clear to his son. As Richard would confirm many times over the years, racing was very much a business for his father, particularly in the sport’s early years. A win meant more money to fuel the family’s racing operation, and no one—not even his son—would stand in the way.
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