 He comes across and takes the checkered flag. J.D. McDuffie spins right here in turn number one. McDuffie spins his car, gets it off the racetrack as Richard Petty has won the Virginia 500. There are few tracks more synonymous with Richard Petty than the half-mile of mayhem Martinsville Speedway. Petty dominated the 1979 Virginia 500, leading nearly half of the 500 circuits and lapping all but one car.