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  1.   Chevy posted:
  11.23.2005 - 9:28 am
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Richard Petty was first announced as the winner of the race. Scoring
cards were re-checked after the protest of driver who was initially
thought to finishing 2nd ... his dad. Welcome to big time racing, son!


  2.   DEIFan16 posted:
  08.22.2007 - 12:07 am
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Pettys first lead lap finish


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.11.2008 - 7:22 pm
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First time a father and son finish one-two in a NASCAR race, it would
happen again with Bobby and Davey Allison in the 1988 Daytona 500


  4.   18fan posted:
  12.08.2008 - 1:50 am
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Why did they draw for starting positions in the 1950s like they do now
for the Budweiser Shootout?


  5.   Spen posted:
  01.25.2009 - 4:45 am
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Qualifying was probably rained out.


  6.   David posted:
  06.25.2012 - 1:45 pm
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There was a $500 bonus if the winner of the race was driving a
current-year model. Lee told his son after the race that they needed the
money.


  7.   88&4Fan posted:
  01.27.2016 - 5:08 pm
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Possibly the biggest example of karma ever in NASCAR... Lee Petty whines
loud enough and gets NASCAR to take the win away from his own son and
give it to him, which would've been Richard's first career win. But
thats okay. Richard only went on to win 200 races after that, also known
as nearly 4x the amount Lee won.


  8.   TeamDCRfan posted:
  12.09.2018 - 9:29 pm
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Richards unofficial 201st win


  9.   RaceFanX posted:
  09.27.2019 - 9:25 am
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@8
Petty was flagged as the winner of at least 202 Cup races IIRC
correctly. In addition to the 200 he won and this one he was also
initially flagged as the winner of the 1978 fall race at Atlanta before
a rechecking of the score cards revealed Donnie Allison as the real
winner. That one was a bit more obvious than this one though, right from
the get go everyone thought Allison was winning and that the King hadn't
really won the race.

Still hard to believe Lee did this. I'm glad to hear it was more of a
money thing than anything else.


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