{"id":1569415,"date":"2023-05-29T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1569415"},"modified":"2023-05-29T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T14:11:01","slug":"lee-petty-taught-richard-petty-life-lesson-made-extra-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/lee-petty-taught-richard-petty-life-lesson-made-extra-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Petty Taught Richard Petty a Life Lesson and Made an Extra $200 by Beating His Son After a Race Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For every parent who is too quick to indulge his or her child, there is a lesson to be learned from how Lee Petty treated Richard Petty<\/a>, who would become the winningest driver in NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petty was teaching Richard Petty a valuable life lesson one night in Atlanta. The fact that it was also earning him an extra $200 didn\u2019t hurt either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee Petty finished second to Richard Petty and challenged the results<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Richard Petty and his father Lee Petty pose with a plaque given to Richard by Darlington Raceway in recognition of his record-setting 55th career win. | ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By the time Richard Petty began racing in NASCAR in 1958, his father was one of the sport\u2019s major stars. Lee Petty<\/a> has already won the first of his three Cup Series championships and scored 30 of his 54 race victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Richard started racing his \u201957 Oldsmobile midway through 1958 and was keen on challenging Lee. His nine starts that year bore no fruit, but Richard scored three straight top-10 finishes early the next season and came back six weeks later to earn his first victory \u2013 or so he thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cup Series race at Lakewood Speedway in Atlanta started with a field of 40 drivers on June 14, 1959, but 19 didn\u2019t make it to the end of the 150-mile event on the mile-long dirt track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pettys, Buck Baker, and Curtis Turner were the only drivers to finish on the lead lap, and Richard took the checkered flag, which was going to earn him $2,000. However, Lee immediately went to the race organizers and told them they had erred and that he was the actual winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even his own mother sided against Richard Petty<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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