Richard Petty
Richard Lee Petty
The King
July 2, 1937
(Age: 88)
Randleman, North Carolina
| NASCAR Cup Series Statistics |
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| Year | Rank | Starts | Wins | Top5's | T5's | Top10's | T10's | Poles | Laps | Led | Races Led |
DNF's | Avg Start |
Avg Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 37 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 977 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14.4 | 20.4 | ||
| 1959 | 15 | 21 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 3648 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 11.0 | 15.4 | ||
| 1960 | 2 | 40 | 3 | 16 | 30 | 2 | 8189 | 447 | 6 | 8 | 7.4 | 8.2 | ||
| 1961 | 8 | 42 | 2 | 18 | 23 | 2 | 7866 | 703 | 7 | 19 | 8.9 | 11.0 | ||
| 1962 | 2 | 52 | 8 | 32 | 39 | 4 | 11551 | 1478 | 19 | 11 | 6.7 | 6.9 | ||
| 1963 | 2 | 54 | 14 | 30 | 39 | 8 | 12183 | 2181 | 25 | 12 | 6.5 | 7.5 | ||
| 1964 | 1 | 61 | 9 | 37 | 43 | 8 | 14041 | 3405 | 33 | 20 | 4.2 | 7.3 | ||
| 1965 | 38 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3697 | 967 | 9 | 4 | 2.1 | 8.8 | ||
| 1966 | 3 | 39 | 8 | 20 | 22 | 1 | 8737 | 2924 | 26 | 16 | 3.6 | 11.0 | ||
| 1967 | 1 | 48 | 27 | 38 | 40 | 1 | 12739 | 5543 | 41 | 8 | 2.4 | 5.0 | ||
| 1968 | 3 | 49 | 16 | 31 | 35 | 1 | 12254 | 4242 | 35 | 16 | 3.5 | 8.4 | ||
| 1969 | 2 | 50 | 10 | 31 | 38 | 6 | 12589 | 2777 | 32 | 15 | 4.1 | 7.9 | ||
| 1970 | 4 | 40 | 18 | 27 | 31 | 9 | 10536 | 5007 | 32 | 10 | 4.4 | 6.8 | ||
| 1971 | 1 | 46 | 21 | 38 | 41 | 9 | 13739 | 4932 | 41 | 5 | 3.8 | 4.2 | ||
| 1972 | 1 | 31 | 8 | 25 | 28 | 3 | 10282 | 2093 | 30 | 31 | 4.1 | 4.7 | ||
| 1973 | 5 | 28 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 3 | 8644 | 1815 | 16 | 10 | 4.9 | 10.9 | ||
| 1974 | 1 | 30 | 10 | 22 | 23 | 7 | 9097 | 3100 | 24 | 8 | 4.0 | 6.8 | ||
| 1975 | 1 | 30 | 13 | 21 | 24 | 3 | 9082 | 3158 | 26 | 6 | 4.1 | 6.6 | ||
| 1976 | 2 | 30 | 3 | 19 | 22 | 1 | 8941 | 1269 | 23 | 9 | 6.1 | 9.0 | ||
| 1977 | 2 | 30 | 5 | 20 | 23 | 5 | 8840 | 1403 | 24 | 6 | 4.4 | 7.5 | ||
| 1978 | 6 | 30 | 0 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 8904 | 417 | 15 | 12 | 8.9 | 12.8 | ||
| 1979 | 1 | 31 | 5 | 23 | 27 | 1 | 9367 | 1149 | 16 | 3 | 7.6 | 6.4 | ||
| 1980 | 4 | 31 | 2 | 15 | 19 | 0 | 9314 | 714 | 23 | 9 | 9.1 | 11.7 | ||
| 1981 | 8 | 31 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 0 | 7276 | 547 | 21 | 14 | 10.6 | 15.4 | ||
| 1982 | 5 | 30 | 0 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 7834 | 355 | 18 | 13 | 13.4 | 14.4 | ||
| 1983 | 4 | 30 | 3 | 9 | 21 | 0 | 9439 | 279 | 16 | 5 | 14.6 | 10.7 | ||
| 1984 | 10 | 30 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 8835 | 275 | 8 | 7 | 14.8 | 15.2 | ||
| 1985 | 14 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 7767 | 105 | 7 | 12 | 17.0 | 17.9 | ||
| 1986 | 14 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 7639 | 153 | 7 | 10 | 15.5 | 17.4 | ||
| 1987 | 8 | 29 | 0 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 8306 | 38 | 8 | 6 | 20.2 | 13.3 | ||
| 1988 | 22 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6207 | 11 | 3 | 15 | 23.8 | 24.4 | ||
| 1989 | 29 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5567 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 27.6 | 25.8 | ||
| 1990 | 26 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7438 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 26.3 | 25.0 | ||
| 1991 | 24 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8341 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 26.6 | 22.0 | ||
| 1992 | 26 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7977 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 22.6 | 23.0 |
