Watch as Richard Petty speeds to his 200th and final NASCAR Cup Series win before he retired in 1992. The Firecracker 400 was watched live in front of 80,000 including President Ronald Reagan.
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00:00It's a sunny Independence Day in Daytona Beach, Florida.
00:04President Ronald Reagan calling the start.
00:07Gentlemen, start your engines.
00:13And they take the green flag. They're going off on lap one.
00:16Yarbrough holding his lead on the inside of the track.
00:19Car number eight, Bobby Hillen Jr. as he came out of turn two and lost control.
00:23Exciting racing as they go toward turn two. Earnhardt and Yarbrough.
00:28Richard Petty has taken the lead in car 43.
00:31Cale Yarbrough in 28 chasing him.
00:34President Ronald Reagan looking on alongside Bill Graham Jr.
00:37And a car is spun out. Doug Hebron's car is spun out in turn one.
00:41So now the yellow caution flag may be coming out.
00:44This will perhaps be the last lap of the race.
00:48You are allowed to race to the line once the yellow has come out.
00:51Coming down the front straight. Here they are. Sam, they will come across the yellow line.
00:56Just about together but Petty had the lead.
00:58Cale goes right through the pits and back out.
01:01Hard to imagine exactly what Cale Yarbrough was thinking at that point
01:04unless he just simply decided in disgust that the race was over.
01:08As they come down this time, you are going to see a checkered flag for car number 43.
01:13Richard Petty has won the 200th race of his career.
01:17An unexpected thrill for the crowd here which in effect saw the race end three laps earlier.
01:22Richard Petty emerged victorious for his 200th Grand National Stock Car Racing victory.
01:28And right now Larry Neuber is in the garage with the disappointed Cale Yarbrough.
01:32I was sitting right where I thought I wanted to be and just one of those things.
01:37I got beat at my own game I guess.
01:39There was a little fender bending going on and it had everything that you really wanted to have
01:43and we were fortunate enough to win.
01:45This was a matter of racing skill and horsepower.
01:48One of the closest finishes ever.
01:52.