Denis McGlynn, president and CEO of Dover Motorsports, Inc., presented Richard Petty with a mini version of the new plaque that is featured on the base of the Monster Monument during Sunday’s prerace ceremonies. McGlynn still thinks back in amazement of the days when the NASCAR driver known simply as “The King” drove to seven career victories at the track. “Back in the day, we just had that little press box up on top of that old grandstand there, like a high school football press box,” McGlynn said. “The thing I remember most about Richard in the early days … I used to work up in that press box, and Richard, after whooping up on everybody for 500 miles and the temperatures inside the car and the physical endurance, he’d climb all the way up those 36 rows and put up with an hour of the media, and then he’d go out and sit in the stands and sign autographs until the last person went home. You mention all the records that Richard owns here … I think he also owns the record for most autographs signed.”(Delaware News Journal)(9-22-2008)
