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  1.   HomeDepotKid posted:
  12.06.2004 - 4:44 am
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2/28/60, Charlotte, NC.

"Good job, Richard, you've only got 199 to go!" It was his 1st win. He
won $800 for it. Wow.


  2.   JR posted:
  03.18.2008 - 1:45 pm
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A victory in his 35th start


  3.   Scott B posted:
  06.01.2018 - 1:20 pm
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While Richard Petty celebrated his first GN win, another young up and
comer named David Pearson was making just his third appearance in the
series, the first two having come at Daytona Speedweeks earlier the same
month.

Imagine seeing these two at a little dirt track at that stage of their
careers.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  06.01.2018 - 1:44 pm
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This was also just the third career start, and only one of the season,
for 21-year-old South Carolina young gun Cale Yarborough. This was the
first time Richard Petty, Pearson, and Yarborough all ran against each
other in the same race.


  5.   34McDowellFan posted:
  07.31.2018 - 10:30 am
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Career win #1 for Richard Petty. He turned out to be pretty decent


  6.   A posted:
  02.27.2019 - 12:53 pm
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Seven cars running at the end


  7.   joey2448 posted:
  10.02.2019 - 6:14 pm
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According to Greg Fielden's book, "NASCAR: The Complete History", Lee
Petty put the bumper to Rex White in the closing stages, allowing his
son Richard to get by and win the race.


  8.   A posted:
  06.09.2020 - 10:26 pm
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Just 21 cars and seven didn't even win 100, but Lee Petty, David
Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Buck Baker, Ned Jarrett, Junior Johnson and
Richard Petty were among those running that day.


  9.   ScottB posted:
  06.10.2020 - 11:31 am
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Comment 7-

If that's true, Lee must have been driving in relief of somebody, since
his own entry was out of the race early on.

Lots of laps led are not accounted for in this race. Very likely Rex
White was out front for more than one, but since all we know for certain
is that Petty passed him for the lead, he's shown with just the one lap
he must have led for that to happen. Qualifiers 1 through 5 were all
DNF's, so there were a lot of cars with potential to get to the lead in
the early part of the race.

Frustrating that more detailed results haven't been found, since this
race was Richard Petty's first win... but no one knew at the time how
significant that would be.


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