At first, everybody thought it was just a crash. Andrew Watson, another fan, had tears in his eyes after learning the crash was fatal. He was a nice guy, a real nice guy. He was just following in his family's footsteps. Driver Buckshot Jones said his thoughts were with the Petty family.
Nothing matters now.
N.C. He identified himself as a family friend and said the family was at the nearby home of Kyle Petty. Clifford Allison was killed during practice for a race in Brooklyn, Mich., in 1992. Lee Petty died April 5 at age 86 from complications of a stomach aneurysm several weeks after surgery. Adam Petty had made his Winston Cup debut just three days earlier in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1959, he become the photo-finish winner of the first Daytona 500.