re: NASCAR.. Who's The Goat? Earnhardt,Petty,Or Other?

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Yeah there were 55 freaking races …

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And Petty ran 54 of them.

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Weatherly ran 52. And look at the car owners between the two.

Hell, Weatherly drove 5 different car brands. Pontiac ,Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge and Mercury.

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Peak Richard was a hell of a race driver on any kind of track, dirt to road courses, but I think he retroactively gets some grief as far as his historical status because aside from that ill-fated venture into drag racing during a Chrysler boycott, he never really tried any other kinds of racing.

Where Bobby and Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough and Lee Roy Yarbrough and Bobby Johns actually did Indy; Junior Johnson, Curtis Turner, David Pearson (who supposedly was wicked fast in his test at Atlanta in the 1960s but wanted no part of it), Fred Lorenzen, Charlie Glotzbach, Ken Schrader and Neil Bonnett took rides in Indy cars; Cale, Terry Labonte and Dick Brooks ran LeMans; Pearson actually won an SCCA TransAm race in the 1960s; and even Dale Sr. did the Daytona 24 Hours.

But I think it goes back to the businesslike attitude that Lee instilled. The Pettys did Grand National/Winston Cup racing, they did it well, that was their thing, and they and Richard stayed in their lane.