Richard Petty was (and still is) UNBEATABLE
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- While the "Big 4" American sports see a record-breaker most every year, NASCAR's greatest feats have already been achieved for over 50 years; all hogged by one man, one legend, one King.
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After Petty won that 200th race in 1984, some unseen force basically went "Enough" and forbid him from winning again
Saw that with jimmie too…but not with dale sr…he won in 2000 and was 2nd in points at age 48.
@@BigOleMattyhonestly, with Jimmie, it feels a bit like the ruling bodies didn't want him to break the 3 way championship tie.
@@cavalierliberty6838that and the Pocono wreck shook him up pretty bad and to add the struggles of the new camaro probably didn't help
Actually it was because he didn't win that many and people was pointing that out back then and still today, in fact he did indeed lose his 198th win straight up and was overruled by the owner of NASCAR remember it isn't a "sport" it's just called that for funsies, he doesn't measure up when you take off the rosy glasses and most people in the know have a low opinion of him for very good and extensive reasons
Yeah. That force was money lol
the winningest season in NASCAR's modern era was Gordon's 1998, where he won 13 races.
someone would have to replicate that year *sixteen times* to get to Petty.
outrageous.
HES BACK
When u look at what I’m carnation said petty is the goat and it’s NOT close
Larson could've easily won 16 in 2021.
It’s funny he says all this and thinks dale earnhardt is the GOAT nascar driver😂
Busch beat him already. Idc if most of his wins are in xfinity and truck. The parity in those 2 series is much much more competitive than the parity during Petty's era where most of the races didnt even have 30 cars.
Watching Petty on the track would be one of the first things i would do when i have access to time travel.
Could just watch old videos of him racing today right :P
@@citizenoftheyearCC That works too
Mine would be petty or earnhardt.
Now this is an individual who’s got their priorities straight
First race I ever went to was Martinsville, Va (lived in same county) in 1971. Petty won driving his ‘71 Plymouth short track Roadrunner. Saw him win many races there, wonderful memories.
One important bit of context is that today's fields are significantly more competitive than they were in the '50s and '60s. Back then, with such a long schedule, very few drivers had the stamina and finances to compete in NASCAR full-time, especially in the numerous low-paying short track races they had.
In quite a few of Petty's early victories the field consisted basically of him, David Pearson when he felt like showing up, and a bunch of local ham-and-eggers in substandard equipment. That doesn't at all mean that Petty wasn't an incredible driver...but his early success was due at least in part to his marketing skills as it was his driving skills.
There are always factors. To be frank, the greatest racing driver to ever live will likely never actually compete in a racing car. Opportunity, timing, and luck are all factors, and they will never go away.
Him ‘requesting’ a fire extinguisher at his final race in 1992 is legendary.
"Get the fucking fire extinguisher!" -Richard Petty
It's on FARRR
to be frank, the wins record in baseball is also unbreakable. Due to the way pitchers don't play nearly as many games as they used to and get taken out earlier etc.
Jeff Gordon's 93 wins should be the benchmark for wins that drivers should strive for. With today's playoff format, I don't think anyone will tie 7 Championships again for a long while.
Why? All seven of Johnson's were under a playoff format, a few different formats in fact.
@@joshuapowers4623 The current elimination style format? Maybe I will be wrong, but not seeing it.
@@joshuapowers4623 don't forget 5 of the 7 were won 5 in a row. That also helps odds. In order to get 7. Someone needs to win at least 3 in a row maybe even back to back 3-peats like Jordan did.
@@joshuapowers4623 I like to joke that the format constantly changed JUST to try and stop Jimmie Johnson
@@acedelta12 You're right because take a look at this: 2004 was the first year of the chase format with 10 drivers competing for the cup. In 2006, Johnson won his first title. In 2007, NASCAR changed the format with 12 drivers competing for the cup. Johnson won 4 more in a row in that span. In 2011, NASCAR changed the format to the wild card format. Johnson won the title in 2013. In 2014, NASCAR changed the format to the elimination chase format. Johnson won the title in 2016. In 2017, NASCAR tweaked the format to now we have stage racing and playoff points. Johnson nearly made it back to the final 4 in 2017. Who knows what would have happened if he won his 8th title.
My grandfather was lucky enough to have watched Petty many times in his youth and met him several times. He once told me a story of when he was at a race at Dover and petty ran out of gas with a few laps to go. But was ahead by so many laps that he was able to coast the whole way on an empty tank and still win
Richard Petty moment
The fact that people try to pull this "plummer" excuse is sad.
He went against:
David Pearson-105 wins
Bobby Allison-84 wins
Darrell Waltrip-84
Cale Yarbrough-83 wins
Ned Jarret-50 wins
Junior Johnson-50 wins
Lee Petty-54 wins
Herb Thomas-48 wins
Buck Baker-46 wins
Tim Flock-39 wins
Bobby Isaac-34 wins
Fonty Flock-19 wins
Rex White-28 wins
Fred Lorenzen-26 wins
Jim Paschal-25 wins
Joe Weatherly-25 wins
Benny Parsons-21 wins
Jack Smith-21 wins
Speedy Thompson-20 wins
Curtis Turner-18 wins
Dick Hutchinson-14 wins
If you consider any of them plumners,you don't know wheel.
It's so weird to compile a list of drivers that raced against his dad, and then more that raced against his son and then say look at all this competition he had... No, he was not competitive against a lot of those drivers...
To speed run his records you need to dominate nascar for 7 yrs with 29 wins a season and lead most of the laps in every race damn thats crazy.
To truly speedrun Richard Petty's records, you need to win every single race you enter in for five and a half years. *FIVE AND A HALF YEARS.*
Don't forget that the racetracks varied greatly back then. They raced on dirt, asphalt, concrete, various road courses. Very minimal practice time to get used to a track and set up for it. You show up, qualify and go. That Petty mastered all these different tracks with so little prep time deserves much more attention than he currently gets. That's why he's the King: he could, and did, beat you literally anywhere.
I honestly wonder how much better (or worse) Petty would be regarded if we had more footage of races in his era. We don't have video or even photos for most of the races he raced in or won.
hopelessly chasing perfection; good line
The King is the Ultimate Legendary GOAT of NASCAR and racing history
No wonder Kyle cracked so often. He was under immense pressure.
Kyle Busch is still young ( compared to drivers in pettys Era.
He has a combined win total of 229.
Yes Petty has more cup wins but alot of those were against non sponsored very weak teams.
Even the Truck series is harder to win in than any cup race prior to 1984.
Petty was a very smart driver and was also the first driver to bring in a huge sponsor when that was unheard of way back then. Definitely a pioneer but he was just at the right place at the right time along with alot of talent.
The 'event' races in the '60's and '70's (basically anything with a purse over 10 grand); would usually have 10-15 legitimately fast cars. The low purse races would only have three or four good cars, and there were a few races that were truly Petty vs. nobody (Asheville '71 being by far his biggest joke win), but I'd definitely take a North Wilkesboro '62 field over any random Truck field.
To me, Kyle Busch’s 200+ wins over the 3 series is way more impressive. Even today it’s hard to say all the cars are competitive, but in Petty’s early days it was a joke how much better his cars were than the field. A DNF in 25% of starts and more top 10’s than finishes on the lead lap makes accumulation stats seem a lot less impressive.
kb lol
He was the Wilt Chamberlain of NASCAR. When the competition is as lacking as it was back then and with it not being a full time profession for most drivers, his accomplishments are blown out of proportion.
The difference is that Wilt Chamberlain is not top 10 in the NBA, and Richard Petty is at least top 5 in NASCAR
@@Isaac_Arango Wilt isnt top 10? LOL apparently you know nothing about basketball. Only a fool would keep Wilt out of the top 5.
@@HughWanztino Bill Russell, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and even Shaquille O'Neal are all better
lol no @@Isaac_Arango MJ, LeBron, and Kareem, I'll give you. Russell and Magic are arguable. Duncan, Kobe, and Shaq hell nah.
also, you only named 9 players, thought he wasn't top 10?
@@HughWanztino Even Stephen Curry could be considered a little bit better
The King will always be the King forever and ever. Also, looking forward to your Hater's Guide to the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season video!
Now we need a Jimmie Johnson video
These sorts of records kind of make me wish NASCAR wasn't a spec series. Let teams have a development war!
Thats why hes called The King.
Never knew he was such a a legend
Great video btw!
To win 7 Daytona 500 SEVEN in the sport biggest race no one is going to break that mark
GOAT contenders: Petty, Earnhardt, Johnson, Gordon, Pearson, Waltrip, KyBusch, Bobby Allison, Yarborough
I think Petty is actually very underrated because there were tons of talent throughout the 60s and 70s, and he was clearly better than all of them:
David Pearson
H2H Wins: 290-261 Petty
Wins: 108-97 Petty
Top 5s: 292-289 Petty
Top 10s: 367-349 Petty
Av. Finish: 9.8-11.3 Petty
Ned Jarrett
H2H Wins: 146-140 Petty
Wins: 42-39 Petty
Top 5s: 151-149 Petty
Top 10s: 193-198 Jarrett
Av. Finish: 8.7-8.9 Petty
Bobby Allison:
H2H Wins: 385-308 Petty
Wins: 134-83 Petty
Top 5s: 351-329 Petty
Top 10s: 455-436 Petty
Av. Finish: 10.4-11.3 Petty
Cale Yarborough
H2H Wins: 275-246 Petty
Wins: 82-75 Yarborough
Top 5s: 255-243 Petty
Top 10s: 324-300 Petty
Av. Finish: 11.4-12.5 Petty
Bobby Isaac:
H2H Wins: 196-96 Petty
Wins: 86-31 Petty
Top 5s: 191-125 Petty
Top 10s: 219-159 Petty
Av. Finish: 7.6-13.1 Petty
For 20 years, nobody was better than he was, week in and week out. That's why he's the greatest.
Thats a very odd list to put together. Many of those drivers were racing against his dad, and others were racing against his son. Richard Petty wasn't competitive against most of those people on the list...
@kwade5158 What are you even talking about? The guys on that list raced during the exact time as Petty, who else should I have brought up? Someone like Dale Earnhardt who had his prime well after Pettys ended?
Elly dropping another banger
Is it really the same sport when he was winning vs nowadays? Still the King but if the records are unbeatable like that, and the schedule is different, it doesn't seem like those records should be compared to modern racing.
Well said. I agree.
Even winning a truck series race is extremely difficult compared to some of Pettys wins where he lapped the field 20 times.
Kyle has 229 wins in all three series.
Any one of those series is harder to get to victory lane than anything prior to the mid 80s in cup.
@@Mike-xt2ot facts
Petty>Busch
5:56 I appreciate the Talladega night clip 🥹 my favorite movie ever !
Great video, i would love to see one about Steve Kinser and how he is the King in Sprint Car Racing with the World of Outlaws.
I like dale I would say he is the best to ever do it but is he as good as a driver as Richard some would say yes but to me they are both greats and deserve to be treated and respected as such
I liked this video the moment i heard the Donkey Kong Country song lol
Nothing can stop Richard Petty tonight
He will forever be The King
I’m tired of the Richard Petty slander. The fact is his success is backed up by modern stats. There’s a reason why everyone in the industry respects him, and no credible figure is saying “well actually, the competition now is better”🤓.
It’s true, there weren’t ANY other super teams besides Petty Enterprises until the late 70s arose. Lee Petty won all those titles and the money and basically passed it to Richard who was yes indeed talented but if you took Petty, Earnhardt Sr, Gordon, Pearson and KyBusch all in their primes and put them together for a full season in the same equipment, Petty wouldnt win the title. When other teams were catching up to PE in the 80s, Petty wasn’t even a title threat and only won a couple or a few races a year
Not to mention Pearson had a better winning percentage and win ratio than petty when they were racing on track together. Much less that The Wood Brothers weren’t even a good team, mostly the same goes for Holman-Moody
Richard Petty is 5.7% on average When you Compare number of # of starts to # of wins. David Pearson is 5.4% he started roughly half the number petty did and still won 103 times. DP is the GOAT
Restrictor plates killed any drivers chance to catch up with "The King".
Everyone always says that they use to race a ton of races in Richard's day. This was true in the 1960's, but in the 1970's when RJ REYNOLDS began to sponsor the WINSTON CUP SERIES, the schedule was drastically shortened. Look back and you'll see that the schedule was reduced to as little as 30 races a year. LASS THEN TODAY'S CURRENT schedule. This stood in place well into the 1980's until the schedule slowly began to grow again, eventually ending up at today's 36 race season........
Please do the 1992 season next. I can't wait any longer. XD
This makes me want to go in and check the career wide average finishing position to see if drivers are getting better on avg and just the king takes the win or if averages are falling meaning the pack is getting tougher.
FACT: when Dale Sr rejoined RCR in 1984, Richard Petty stopped winning.
I believe Cal Ripken Jr consecutive games played is one of the most impossible record to beat also.
While a HUGE Richard Petty fan, he doesn’t even come close. John Force is the UNDISPUTED GOAT!!!
Yay - loved this. I’ve got all the respect in the world for figures like Dale Sr., Jeff Gordon, Bill Elliot, or Mark Martin, and recognition for Johnson and all those drivers I stopped caring about after the turn of this century, but even if he wasn’t “my guy,” Richard Petty has earned every iota of his legend. People like to diminish him and others from the past, like drivers of today are a new and stronger breed and something someone like Benny Parsons couldn’t handle. This is nonsense - Cup drivers have always been the best and if you dropped a 25 year-old Richard Petty in a modern car, he’d own just as hard - he raced against legends like all of the Allisons, Junior Johnson, Cale, Fireball, Weatherly, Ned Jarrett, DW, along with Dale Sr., Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace, Tim Richmond, and on and on. One wonders if Busch or Logano would have done quite so well if they were dropped into the 1979 Daytona 500?
Give the man his due, people. Things weren’t easier back then and the competition wasn’t soft. Yet this man doubled the accomplishments of the next best driver and was nicknamed “King.”
Johnson would not have won 7 without the joke that is the playoff system. It should be Petty, Earnhardt, and Gordon.
Johnson is massively overrated, a great crew chief and a lame points system really propped him up, take away the points resets and he only gets 3 championships maximum...Kevin Harvick was a far better driver that fake 7 time...Jeff Gordon actually should have 7 championships, and Jimmie stole 1 from Gordon...he stole 1 from Harvick, maybe 2...Harvick would be a multi time champ with season long points...and Jimmie Johnson made a total joke of himself in IndyCars when he was barely better than mediocre on road courses and only lucked into his 2010 Sonoma win.
@@PaperBanjo64 Johnson would have 3 without the playoffs, Gordon would have 7 and Harvick would have 4 hint he would be 4th all-time. Johnson would be tied for 5th instead of tied for first.
And people have the audacity to complain about Hamilton’s and Verstappen’s winning streaks.
Gordon is the goat. Petty is a pioneer. He had it relatively easy compared to the modern era Gordon, Earnhardt and Johnson raced in
Petty was racing Janitors and Electrictrians. Mickey Mouse Cups
I totally agree. There should be an asterisk next to that stat.
60 races per year😭
At one time, Richard Petty raced 2-3 time each week. Not all were NASCAR sanctioned races either.
I'll bet that car was strictly legal in every race. Petty is a great driver, engineer and car builder.
The Max Verstappen of NASCAR.
They didn't call him king Richard for nothing
I'm not the biggest fan of The King, but the man showed up to darn near every single points race, and it's not his fault he won a lot of them. You can't win if you don't race, and he raced the most and won the most. Yeah Pearson and Cale and Dale were great, but they didn't do what Richard did.
The king Richard Petty is Dinoco
Hearing Martin Broduer’s name said without the french accent hit me like a flashbang. I literally had to rewind to hear it again😂
The Donkey Kong music makes this so much better lol
I was always a Pearson fan back in the day- but the King IS the KING... no doubt about that
Which Lewis Hamilton F1's Goat only has 103 in a sport some say it's harder but to be honest Petty's Nascar was more then that... Also makes modern NASCAR look like 4D chess compared to F1's checkers considering new driver can beat that like in the other sports mentioned in the video... Also let's not forget careers are getting longer and drivers starting earlier and never dieing... So dacades from now we could ssee it the odds say it to be true we just need a child protagy and a 50 or so long career... But I doudt they'll beat him as they would have all the time it the world Petty only had 35 years.
In the constant fights NASCAR fans have about the GOAT, namely between Earnhardt, Gordon and according to some even Kyle Busch, Richard outclasses ALL of them by quite a margin
In football you have to compare stats relative to each position. You can’t compare the stats of a QB to a kicker or an olineman to a WR.
I also think the opening was misleading. The reason Tom Brady is consider great is not just how he has the most wins it’s the fact that he has won 7 SB. The most SB wins by a franchise is 6.
@@Tyler-qc6lz It's really not. Its not misleading anyone. No one is going the best K is better then the Best QB ever. Hell for three of Vinatieris Rings he was on Bradys team, the other Payton Mannings.
That being said 2 of Bradys rings wouldn't exist without Adam. Specifically 2001 as Adam came up big against Oakland in the TuckRule game, and then big in the actual super bowl kicking the game winner. And 2002 where he kicked another super bowl game winner.
Plus Vinatieri is hands down the Best kicker ever, and he holds the most points in the NFL record at 2,673. Being compared to him isnt an insult.
Also 7 super bowls really isn't out of reach in todays NFL. What makes Bradys so impressive was the fact he did it for so long, with the same team for the most part. How many sports do you see 1 team reign over the League like that. Like The road to the Super Bowl ran through New England. Kinda like it has been for KC recently. Then when he went to Tampa and got that last ring, was such a way to go.
couple minutes ago i thinking about Richard Petty career and i turned up my phone suddenly this pop out speechless
I have a PS2 copy of NHL '03 with Ovechkin on the cover....
In Brisca f1 racing, stuart smith snr has 500 feature final wins, second place has 289. Only 57% of the way there from a drive who has raced for twice as long. Stu won 50.7% of the races he entered. Only dominance which can outdo the 43's that i can think of
You have to remember the era he raced in was way less competitive. Doesn’t change how insane the stats are, but puts it into perspective.
Dale Earnhardt will always be the GOAT
Thank you very respectfull
While 200 wins is an insane stat that noone will touch likely ever. I will say I believe that Kyle Busch's 231 wins in NASCAR's National series is much more impressive considering the amount of elite equipment and drivers that have been around since his first win in 2004.
babe wake up the king posted again
I’m wondering how if we cheated with the stats a bit.
If we compared Richard’s stats in the Winston Cup with drivers that ran Top level, Xfinity and the trucks. Surely Richard will still be on top. But to see how the Bushwackers and drivers that ran everything else along with the cup would really put Richard’s dominance in a more crazy perspective.
Richard Petty is the Wayne Gretzky of NASCAR
Great story. All hail the King.
"The King" Richard Petty also has 555 Top 5s in his Career.
This means that "The King" won an Average of 19 Top 5s Per Year (From when he got his 555 Top 5s [1959 - 1988, 30 of his 35 Year Racing Tenure]), which is a 6.33% Career Average in Top 5s.
When will the new season of the haters guide return ? Been hyped up for the whole year waiting hahaha.
fun fact richard's last 2nd place ame to dale sr in 1987
Babe wake up Elly posted
Didn’t even mention stage racing changed the sport forever.
Sounds like Jim Clark
It’s amazing how many stats you rack up when there’s multiple races a week to varying levels of participation from competitors…
90% of his wins came on local tracks. NASCAR don’t even race those tracks anymore
It's really easy to win everything when you have 100 more horsepower and only 4 competitive cars every week not trying to take away anything from him but new rules and stuff make it sure that noone will ever top this
Also the amount of full time drivers being so low, so driver competition as a whole was lower.
Not to mention he had the largest sponsor as well in a time where guys had no sponsors at all.
Petty's stats are unsurprising when you consider that he was a talented driver in a factory team that had the sponsorship money to experiment and their scraps were still better than the best of anything that wasn't Wood Bros equipment.
It becomes incredible when you compare this to every other racing series in the era. Huge sponsorship funding didn't really start in F1 until the early 70s and that took another 5-10 years to filter into the rest of the racing world. The Petty family figured that out like ten years earlier than the rest of the racing **world** . Not nascar, but ahead of the**world**.
Dale is still the better driver imo
Ok but have you considered quinn houff
For those wh complain he cheated to 200 wins, Keep in mind He raced in an era where there were barely any rules like he could make the car anyway he wanted it and it didnt matter to the officials or Bill France Sr. and it was cause of guys like Petty, Pearson, etc, etc they Nascar made those rules so pretty much the entire Nascar rule book should all be credited to those guys
If Petty was younger and started his career later, he would never have the numbers he has
only in nascar and therapy do you realize perfection is petty
Keep in mind folks, David Pearson only raced when he felt like it
See thats the thing, the wins record was just crazy, but, the cars and drivers were different back then than they are now. There was a point in time where nascar execs started looking for talent to just drive, teams were forced to go by nascar rule changes, and year after year they made the cars more and more equal, the drivers got better and better, it's going to be impossible for a driver to win that many races again.
Nice Contra Hard Corps: Uprising music.
Comparing NFL and the NBA to nascar is wild 😂
The closest comparison would be Don Bradman's average of 99.94 compared to the nearest averages which are all around 50 in test cricket.
Forcing crickets to fight each other is inhumane.
Didnt know much about him before this video. Now Im willing to be a fanboy
Petty was the only guy crazy enough to throw all of his and the sponsor money into running every single race. It’d be like if you committed to running every single Nascar Weekly series track across the united states. You’d be living on wins. Using a car you bought from a dealership and modded to run as fast as possible. Richard was the greatest of the 60’s and 70’s and tapered off as soon as NASCAR became ultra modern, when actual stock cars were phased out for ultra fabricated race cars with factory motors. He set the tone, But it’s arguably way harder to win races when everybody shows up with the same level of prep if not more so than you every weekend of the year, than it is racing against 40-50 other guys who run limited schedules because their sponsors either can’t pay for it all or they don’t have the same raw skills at tuning cars. These days the cars and teams are so close together that 1 singular guy can’t stand out like they used to without finding a sinkhole in the rule book like Everham did.
200 wins out of 1185 starts…
Well not many drivers have even close to that many starts.
AWESOME video!
"there is no way these can be beaten"
Ya no shit, its a different sport now, half the amount of races are ran, if we ran 60 races a year then Richard would be just like another driver I'm sure.
I'm not saying he's Jeff Green or Danica Patrick or smthn, I'm just saying you cant compare to different sports like they are the same.
Two words: John Force
don't know my petties very well, thought this was about Tom Petty
Most of it In a Mopar. 😊
Just a question if someone can help me out . Didn’t he drive the absolute fastest car every race day tho?
Yes, he always had the better equipment, so most of his wins are bs, even his 198th win he had a way better car but NASCAR allowed him to keep it so he could get to 200.
@@vintageLEGOcollector thanks man . I’m trying to learn as much as I can about old stock car and nascar racing . I didn’t watch till the late 90’s . Born in 1994
He won in every conceivable way. He often had the best car but he was also an incredible driver. He won the 1981 Daytona 500 with better strategy on a day when he clearly didn’t have the best car.
Davis Pearson only raced part-time.