Kahne’s win, celebrates Petty’s 200th Anniversary

For the first time since 1999, “The King” returned to Victory Lane as a car owner last Sunday at Infineon Raceway, and NASCAR legend Richard Petty’s timing couldn’t have been more appropriate.
Driver Kasey Kahne (No. 9 Budweiser Dodge) claimed the first victory for the new Richard Petty Motorsports — the organization that melded teams from [...]

Defending Pocono Winner: Kasey Kahne

Unique Pocono A Challenge
Defending Pocono 500 winner Kasey Kahne (No. 9 Budweiser Dodge) has been on the move in recent weeks with a seventh in the Coca-Cola 600 and a sixth at Dover. A repeat Pocono win would help Kahne rise from his current 14th place in the standings toward a place in the top [...]

Official: Petty and Gillett Evernham Merge

Petty Holdings & Gillett Evernham Motorsports
Announce Agreement in Principle To Form New Team
STATESVILLE, N.C. – Gillett Evernham Motorsports (GEM) and Petty Holdings announced today an agreement in principle to form a new NASCAR Sprint Cup team co-owned by Richard Petty, Petty Holdings, owned by majority shareholder Boston Ventures, and Gillett Evernham Motorsports.
The team will field [...]

Petty Enterprises Imploding, Loses Labonte

December 11, 2008
By Kerry Murphey
Photo: CIA Stock Photo
Bobby Labonte has been released from Petty Enterprises and now is the highest profile driver (a champion) without a ride right now.  Indications are, he may land at the newly formed Earnhardt/Ganassi Racing, so we will wait and see.
Bobby said “In over 15 years of racing in the [...]