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outlaw is Gar fishing said 06/25, 10:00 PM
Don't give me the Richard has the most wins all time bull mess, because Dale or Jeff Gordon would have shattered it with cupcake competition and racing over 30 years, I mean every race back the it was either Petty, Pearson, or Allison winning every race, I mean dam they had the ever so challenging Co-Co Marlin actually competing in the top 5 usually.

Dale and Petty both have seven championships, and Dale has 76 wins, sixth all time, and pretty damn good when your facing guys like Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Jeff Gordon, Rusty Wallace, Bill Elliot, Terry Labonte, Davy Allison, and much more.

Richard was the first real superstar in NASCAR, but Earnhardt was way more popular in his prime, and was the first real bad boy.

One last thing for this argument, Earnhardt was Mr. Consistency, He was in the top 10 week in and week out, he could take a car that should just be scrapped off and turn it into a good points day.

Please don't just vote on the fact that Petty is the all time leader in wins, I mean you don't consider Cy Young the best pitcher ever.

Defend your comment Cassidy

outlaw is Gar fishing said 06/25, 10:27 PM
First off I must correct some of your errors, Jr. has 18 career wins, and I said the beast for Cy not one of the best.

How is the legacy of Dale Earnhardt mostly because of his death, sure his death caused drastic changes in safety, but he was The Intimidator, and winning the championship is more important than winning individual races, which both have 7.

Richard started full time in NASCAR at around 20, Earnhardt's rookie year was 1979 when he was 29, and Dale raced a total of 22 years plus the 2001 Daytona 500, and Petty raced from 1959 until 1992, so if Dale would have race that long he would have had at least two more championships and had around 120 wins.

Competition is what makes it hard to win in todays NASCAR, but Petty had Pearson and Allison, and that was it, I mean it's like the 85 Bears winning the super bowl against the 85 Pats, it wasn't much competition, but had it been the Pats of today it might have been a different story just for an example, and I personally would rather win a few rces here and there, being consistently in the top 5 than winning 10 races a year, but not winning the championship because my average finish is 35th when I don't win, no more room.

outlaw is Gar fishing said 06/25, 10:53 PM
Earnhardt started his career a full 20 years after Petty, and believe me I am in no way defending Dale Jr, I even mad TD about how much he sucked, but Petty won his last race in 84, so went eight seasons with no wins, he won his last championship in 1979, so he went 13 years without a title, Dale Earnhardt was competitive until the end, he finished second in points in 2000 at the age of 49, and he won two races that year, and had the best 5 year stretch from 1990 through 1994 winning the title in 90, 91, 93, and 94, he is the only driver to win consecutive championships 3 times, 86-87, 90-91, 93-94, and I can't express enough how much competition controls how you compete, and I will take this from a comment bellow, ealier in Petty's career they did have a lot more races per season so he had more opportunities to win and the fact that he raced 10 more years than Earnhardt, imagine if Dale started when he was 20 instead of 29, he wouldn't have broke the win record, but would have certainly broke the championship record.

If Dale was the same age as Petty, raced the same amount of time, and started at the same time, Dale would have won more races, with that competition out of room^%&^