By David S. Wallens
Dec 14, 2020
NASCAR royalty Kyle Petty recently sat down with Craig Reynolds, former BMX pro and longtime friend of GRM, to chat about a wide range of topics, including growing up in a race shop, old-school track testing, having confidence in your crew, and being a decent-enough driver. Added bonus: talk about transitioning out of the cockpit, playing guitar, and doing charity work.
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12/14/20 2:20 p.m.
And if you came here from the home page and are wondering we ran a photo of No. 43 for Kyle Petty, check out the guy lugging the right-front tire.
12/14/20 3:03 p.m.
This guy has always seemed genuine and likable to me.
12/14/20 4:21 p.m.
I know that Kyle has run several road races, too, and I was just looking at his stats on racingsportscars.com. It shows him racing a Mazda RX-3 at the Daytona six-hour in 1981. He ran a Firebird at Daytona (with EFR) in 1983. His most active period was the '00s with stints in Porsches (including a GT1) and Daytona Prototypes.
12/14/20 5:50 p.m.
I met Kyle a long time ago when he came to a half mile dirt track near me and raced. It seemed he was having a ball.
12/15/20 7:19 p.m.
He looked like he was having fun at Daytona when he ran the Rolex. I knew that he played guitar, but I didn't realize that he came close to "making it."
12/15/20 8:37 p.m.
Good interview. Spoke with Richard once out in front of the old museum while Kyles crew was practicing pit stops out back.
I raced ABA & NBL BMX nationals for many years so Craig & I were at the same races frequently. Cool to see him as the middle age version of the happy kid at the tracks, he's still that happy kid!
12/16/20 8:11 a.m.
In reply to NOT A TA :
Craig rules. We met at the Orlando National a million years ago--back when you had to ask if someone had an e-mail address so that you could keep in touch. I was driving a GTI, and pretty sure he had a CRX.
12/16/20 8:34 a.m.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
I first raced an Orlando NBL national back in '88(?). Lived in CT at the time and brought the wife & kids on vacation to the big mouse house and also raced Jacksonville the following weekend. IIRC I was riding a Foster painted blue/white Cyclecraft cruiser. Getting that orange clay out of uniforms sucked.
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