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“The King”, as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat), winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone. Richard Petty, “The King”, as he is aptly nicknamed, is best known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat), winning a record 200 races during his career, and the Daytona 500 a record seven times, with a record 27 races (ten of them consecutively) in the 1967 season alone
