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a former American NASCAR driver and is currently a co-host for NASCAR Race Day and panel member for NASCAR Smarts which are both on SPEED. He also commentates for NBC in the summer. He is the son of racer Richard Petty, grandson of racer Lee Petty, and father of Adam Petty. He and his former wife, Pattie have two other children: Austin and Montgomery Lee. He last drove the #45 Dodge Charger for Petty Enterprises, where he formerly served as CEO. He appeared in the 1983 Burt Reynolds movie Stroker Ace. 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 #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 1983, he picked up funding from 7-Eleven and switched his number to #7 accordingly. He had only two top-ten finishes but improved to thirteenth in the standings. He followed the season up with six top-tens the following year, but fell three spots in points. Petty took his number and sponsorship to Wood Brothers Racing in 1985, where he had a then career-high seven top-fives and his first top-ten

points finish. The next season, he won his first career race at Richmond and finished tenth in the final standings. In 1987, he switched to the #21 and received new sponsorship from Citgo, as well as picking up a win at Charlotte. He failed to pick up a win in 1988, and fell to thirteenth in points, causing him to be released from the ride. He signed on to a part-time schedule in 1989 for the new SABCO Racing team. Originally beginning the season un-sponsored, he and SABCO later picked up sponsorship from Peak Antifreeze after he drove their car to a Top 10 finish at the Daytona 500. Peak became the team's full-time sponsor in 1990, and Petty finished eleventh in points

after winning the spring race at North Carolina Speedway with a 26 second margin of victory. Mello Yello would replace Peak as sponsor of the #42 in 1991, and Petty was running eleventh in points when he suffered a broken leg at a crash at Talladega, causing him to miss the next eleven races. In 1992, Petty rebounded to a career-best fifth place finish in points, as well winning two separate races that season, the only time he was to have accomplished this feat in his career. Kyle came very close to winning the championship in 1992, he had a flat tire at Phoenix (2nd to last race) and broke an engine in the last race otherwise he would have been neck and neck with Elliott and Kulwicki for the title. For the 1997 season, Petty formed his own team, PE2 Motorsports, and fielded the #44 Hot Wheels Pontiac Grand Prix for himself. He had two top-five finishes and finished 15th in points. He had

one top-ten early in 2000 when his son Adam died while practicing for a Xfinity Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway. He missed the next two races and returned to drive the #44 for the rest of the summer, before moving to the Xfinity Series full-time to finish out the season in Adam's #45 Sprint Chevrolet. In 2001, Petty brought the #45 to Cup full time and switched to Dodge. In 2002 and had a top-ten at Talladega, raising him to 22nd in the points. After 2002, Sprint left the team and Brawny/Georgia Pacific became his new sponsor. He missed three races in 2003 (including one due to injury). In 2005, he competed in every race for the first time in three years and had two top tens and finished 27th in points. At the 2007 Coca-Cola 600, Petty had his first top

five finish in ten years, finishing 3rd in the Coke Zero Dodge. He later took several races off to work as a color commentator for TNT's Nextel Cup coverage, replacing Benny Parsons. He returned to the 45 after a five race break but surrendered the car for two additional races later in the season. Early in the 2008 season, Petty Enterprises was purchased by Boston Ventures, causing Petty to step aside as the team's CEO. Currently Kyle is a race commentator, and does the pre-race show on SPEED. Any time he appears on television on Speed he wears a hat with a number 45 with a black line across the number in memory of his son Adam. He appears on Trackside,

Victory Lane and NASCAR Smarts as a television personality. Petty is active in many charitable causes, such as the Victory Junction Gang Camp for seriously ill children, which he established to honor his late son, as well as an annual charity motorcycle ride across the country called the Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America. For his career Petty competed in 829 CUP races and has 8 wins, and 52 top 5's. He has over 32 million in earnings. He also ran 55 races on the Xfinity series but did not get any wins. He ran 12 events in the Grand Am Rolex series, winning the GT class in the Bully Hill Vineyards 250 co-driving with John Andretti. Some Info from Wikipedia

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KYLE EUGENE PETTY - 06/02/1960