This annual event features motorcycle enthusiasts logging miles to raise awareness and funds for Victory Junction. The Petty family created the camp in honor of Adam and they use it to provide memorable experiences for children with serious illnesses.Ī key part of the fundraising effort is the Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America. Petty has spent much of his life working to raise money for charitable organizations such as Victory Junction, a NASCAR-themed camp located in Randleman, N.C. It takes place wherever he stops to help those in need. However, Petty’s most important work does not take place on a stage or in a booth. His life is hard - he deals with things like abuse and anorexia and obesity. He explores his childhood, his young adulthood, and ends with his life as a college professor in New York. He tells his story, starting with his childhood in Mississippi as a black kid. He continues to perform at tracks around the country and has graced the stage at the Grand Ole Opry. Heavy represents Laymon's third book and his second memoir. He signed with RCA Records in the 1980s and opened for such acts as Randy Travis, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Hank Williams Jr.
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He regularly appears on the NBC broadcast during Cup Series events, as well as the Peacock call-in show, “NASCAR America Motormouths.”Īlong with his work on NBC Sports, Petty has spent decades writing and performing music. Petty has been a mainstay on NBC Sports in the years since, contributing to several shows and discussing races.
He worked as a color analyst for TNT and as a studio analyst for FOX Sports before joining NBC Sports in 2014.
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The veteran driver dabbled in broadcasting during his final two seasons in the Cup Series, and he dove headfirst into that side of NASCAR after the 2008 season ended. GettyKyle Petty performs music at Texas Motor Speedway. Petty’s Life Now Features Music, Charity Work & Analysis Petty also won three races at Rockingham Speedway. He posted one win each at Pocono Raceway, Dover International Speedway, Watkins Glen International, Charlotte Motor Speedway, and Richmond Raceway. Petty added seven more victories to his Cup Series resume, including a career-high two in 1992. He ultimately reached Victory Lane for the first time in 1986 with a win at Richmond Raceway on February 23. Petty posted 45 top-10 finishes and 11 top-fives in his first seven seasons in the NASCAR Cup Series while transitioning from a part-time to a full-time driver. He started in 1979 with a five-race schedule and continued driving in the top series until 2008 when he made 15 starts. Prior to becoming an analyst for NBC Sports, Petty spent three decades in the NASCAR Cup Series. Petty Spent 30 Years in the NASCAR Cup Series The analyst will discuss “societal issues” and how the sanctioning body will handle them in the coming years. He will also discuss the moment that he learned his son, Adam, had passed away in a crash in a practice session.Īlong with stories about his life and journey to NASCAR, Petty will also discuss the current state of the sport and a history rooted in the south. Instead, there will be stories about following in the footsteps of “The King” Richard Petty and his grandfather, Lee Petty. On sale from SWERVE OR DIE is available for preorder now: /bGZ3way2RCĪccording to a press release, this book will not simply focus on the races that Petty won or the tracks that he visited. He is the founder of “The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative,” a program aimed at getting Mississippi young people and their parents more comfortable reading, writing, revising and sharing.I wrote a book! I’m excited to announce my memoir, SWERVE OR DIE: Life at My Speed in the First Family of NASCAR Racing! Personal stories from my life & racing career… Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. Laymon is at work on the books, Good God, and City Summer, Country Summer, and a number of other film and television projects. Laymon’s bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year.
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Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. He is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi.
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