Kyle Petty

Petty in 2011

Born

June 2, 1960 (age 56)
Level Cross, North Carolina

Achievements

1987 Coca-Cola 600 Winner

Awards

1998, 2000 NASCAR USG Person of the Year
1999, 2000 NASCAR Illustrated Person of the Year
2000, 2004 National Motorsports Press Association Myers Brothers Award

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career

829 races run over 31 years

Best finish

5th (1992, 1993)

First race

1979 Talladega 500 (Talladega)

Last race

2008 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 (Phoenix)

First win

1986 Miller High Life 400 (Richmond)

Last win

1995 Miller Genuine Draft 500 (Dover)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
8	173	8

NASCAR Xfinity Series career

55 races run over 14 years

Best finish

21st (1986)

First race

1982 Kroger 200 (IRP)

Last race

2000 Miami 300 (Homestead)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
0	11	0

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career

1 race run over 1 year

Best finish

100th (1997)

First race

1997 The No Fear Challenge (California)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
0	0	0

Statistics current as of February 16, 2015.

Kyle Eugene Petty (born June 2, 1960) is an American racing driver. Now retired, he formerly competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and is currently a television analyst for NBC's pre- and post-race shows. He formerly was a color commentator for TNT's NASCAR coverage from 2006 through 2014. He is the son of racer Richard Petty, grandson of racer Lee Petty, and father of Adam Petty. He and his ex—wife Pattie have two other children: Austin and Montgomery Lee. He last drove the No. 45 Dodge Charger for Petty Enterprises, where he formerly served as CEO. He appeared in the 1983 Burt Reynolds movie Stroker Ace. Petty was born in Randleman, North Carolina.

Petty began racing at a young age and made his major-league stock car debut at the age of 18. He won the very first race he entered: the 1979 Daytona ARCA 200, in one of his father's mothballed 1978 Dodge Magnum race cars; at the time becoming the youngest driver to win a major-league stock car race. Later in the season, he made his Winston Cup Series debut; again driving a passed down STP Dodge Magnum numbered No. 42 (a number used by his grandfather Lee Petty) for his family's team. He ran five races and had a ninth-place finish in his first series race at Talladega. In 1980, he made a total of fifteen starts in the No. 42 (after crashing the last of his father's Dodge Magnums in one of the Daytona 125 qualifying races) and had six top-ten finishes (using what ever hand-me-down race car his father could spare), garnering a twenty-eighth-place points finish. He began the 1981 season driving his father's No. 43 for one race, before running a full schedule in his regular No. 42, finishing in the top-ten ten times and finishing twelfth in points.

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