Thread: GOAT of GOATs?
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Old 02-18-2018, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Bored5000 View Post
Petty's stats are a bit like comparing Cy Young's stats to modern pitchers. Of course, Petty in the discussion for the greatest NASCAR driver of all-time. But during the first 15 years of his career, the schedule was always 45-55 races. In the modern era, the schedule was 29 races for many years, and it still is nowhere near as many races each season as Petty ran during his prime.

Petty also had factory support in an era when many of the other top drivers did not race the entire schedule. Are his 200 wins really more impressive than the totals of Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson racing in a more competitive era in which all the top teams followed the entire schedule?
Well, even if they'd run a full schedule with factory support, by the late 60's early 70's the cars he had were hard to beat. 8 of his 18 wins in 1970 were against Ford backed cars.

And who else has had a factory kit car sold at retail?
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