WATCH: Special 9/11 piece at NASCAR legend Richard Petty’s museum

Richard Petty's daughters Rebecca Petty Moffit and Sharon Farlow appeared in a recent video which was a tribute to the unsung heroes who lost their lives during the infamous 9/11 attacks in 2001. NASCAR fans remembered the lost lives with a few special pieces of memorabilia preserved at the Richard Petty Museum in Level Cross, North Carolina.

Those attacks stand out as one of the most gruesome terrorist activities to befall American soil. According to reports, Al Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, launched four airplane hijacks and released a series of suicide attacks performed by 19 terrorists.

Almost 3000 people, including civilians, lost their lives. More than 400 police workers and firefighters were killed in New York alone.

Among them were two young brothers, one was a firefighter, and the other was a policeman. All that remained of them was a shirt, a hat, and a badge that their father, Mr. John Vigiano Sr. later donated to the Richard Petty Museum.

Besides that, the museum received a piece of a Petty Enterprise car that one of the workers at the World Trade Center owned and had brought that day to the facility to pick up their kid from daycare. The piece of metal was recovered from ground zero after the attacks were over.

"Remembering those we lost on 9/11 with a special piece at the Petty Museum. #NeverForget," Richard Petty captioned the video.

Several fans rallied behind the NASCAR legend, paying their respects to the lives lost that day.

Is Richard Petty's family lineage of NASCAR racers nearing its end?

Richard Petty during driver introductions before the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway (Source: Imagn)

Richard Petty won 200 races in the top-tier racing series of NASCAR and amassed seven championships throughout his career. His son, Kyle Petty, followed in his footsteps and ran 829 Cup Series races over three decades recording eight wins, and 173 top-10s. However, he retired in 2008 and currently serves as a NASCAR analyst for NBC.

Richard Petty has nine grandsons and seven great-grandsons. While most of his great-grandsons are too young to even consider racing a career, it's just Thad Moffitt, one of Petty's grandsons, who currently races in NASCAR.

Moffitt put up a P9 and a P4 finish in the 2020 and 2021 ARCA points, respectively. In 45 starts, the 24-year-old amassed nine top-5s and 26 top-10s. He drives the No. 46 Chevrolet Silverado for Young's Motorsports in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Moffitt sits 30th in the Truck Series standings with 128 points.

"They’re on their own over there," Richard Petty said (via Autoweek) of his grandson’s NASCAR endeavors. "I haven’t been involved at all and won’t be until he gets settled in with a better team. I don’t know how good this one is. Right now, he’s just learning and making laps."

The Petty family has been an inconspicuous part of NASCAR since its inaugural Cup Series race in 1949. Therefore, it might be hard for the fans as well as the entire racing community to imagine NASCAR without a 'Petty' competing.