European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse The winning ways of the by Mike Spear staff writer n 19 years of grand National Lascar Auto Richard Petty has won so Many races that you blame him if he got bored with it once in a but theres less Chance of that than him coming in in eats and sleeps he is not the t of Driver who sees the car on race Day or shortly Safter a race when he returns Home to level Cross a Community in the rolling Hills of Central i Carolina near he spends a Good part of i time overseeing the work that done on to care at try a huge racer engineering facility it has grown Over the years with the Petty family of fortunes at f the business is a juggernaut of engineering Talent that Blue can apart to the last the Wear two attention to Ortall has paid off big Tor with he is the ram in the Story of National and some years his feats Border on the in 1987 he won 27 i 10 of the victories coming in Al he won 21 of 46 y t Petty has earned Well Over million driving number 43 across the finish last when he finished i Yler through Bat there Are other he likes to quote hit a Champion Stock car him set matter How West youll overcome ever1 think pausing for i can control How Good i do with my How fast i de but if somebody throws a Beer can on the track Fandl is into i cant control or people Are always talking about fast howling cars and Oil that kind of but it is not How fart you but How Page 14 the stars and stripes someone spins out in front of i cant control but circumstances Over the years have favored Petty beyond All his closest rival in victories is David Pearson with and another is third with h and be Hast raced since if a driving his career Hast been an overnight Success his 19 years of race driving Tell Only part of the he and his brother who is now his chief Mechanic and considered one of the Best engine men i began following their dad to races in the late 1940 before they were Tjien grew up with racing and the family has become to Isis what were to baseball or the Kennedy to mention Lascar racing and potty name comes up almost he is called the King or the so the but he has never let that sort of reverence influence Hla Hes outward the fart that iks Jeen Hospes an inner but he blames it on i Roer diet going to a race careful about what he eats now and he says Bis troubles at sfeet2 and 190 pounds Hes nearly 20 pounds i to111 n s Ito but the Petty smile is the same two rows of air alight White the kind that would put do Abbout offs Ness if enough people had to Stock car a that its origin la liquor a image and Hes never capt for one Brief stint at Wking about racing safety in his Walnut an Ete Dounce at Lewi Cross while Brooking Hifa St in a if i Haa always worked on a car for someone else it might have been or Ollen an for More a Oinui Oul ii Vou Al Petty with trophy for 77 Atlanta 5001 lessons on safety Are sometimes Learned the i and the pettys have had Tome spectacular Addens waa nearly tilled at Daytona in when Johnny 1 champs car slowed into Hla and they went throw Fence at Iso Miles an then Richards Plymouth went out of control i Langton in overturning three or four times i he escaped with a separated shoulder but i nets on the Drivers aide became mandatory after Rel the Lascar racers that we run now Are of t any racers anywhere in the Petty 1 la would the the Vij Petty Tuu won i grand National c the latest in if Tai performance in the last couple of be lays to to i going i Dotti Mil season after four Yean with a Dodge Charger what for the last Lime at Riverside tin january and t Plet Ethe he is changing to a i9t8 which he and his Crew have been readying Tor he will go out to do Battle with it att to 500 in but understand the magnum wont Toi the newness Only goes skin thing under it Chassis and Well ran the same engine weve run for the Petty weve got some different r and weve been working on Home Heads and f to keep i improving the thug All the but wet Repetty talks of Imp primarily Choc end with us at Daytona potty will by
