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What: “Beyond the Glory: the Petty Family”

When: Sunday, 8 p.m., Fox Sports Net

On the same day of the Daytona 500, Fox Sports Net’s new biographical show chronicles racing’s most famous family. Viewers will see the ecstasy and agony the family has experienced.

The family saga began with Lee Petty, the first NASCAR Grand National champion and winner of the first Daytona 500 in 1959. Then came Lee’s son, Richard, winner of 200 races and possibly the sport’s greatest legend, followed by Kyle and then Kyle’s son, Adam, killed at 19 in New Hampshire last May while practicing for a race.

Richard Petty, on what racing meant to him, says: “Never had a drink and never had to [use] drugs. Never had to do anything. [Racing] was Richard Petty’s high.”

On working in the pits for his father, he says, “You had to be at least 18-years-old to be in the pit, and we were 11 and 12. We’d see somebody coming that looked like they could run us out and we would hide, get under the car, go into the bathroom, whatever it was to stay away.”

Of the end of his career, Richard says, “Every once in awhile things would happen and [Lynda, his wife] would say, ‘How much longer are you going to do this?’ I’d say, ‘As long as I’m having fun, I’m going to drive.’ Then I had a spectacular accident at Daytona and the car turned over four or five times. I went to the infirmary and I looked up and I could tell she’d been crying. She was mad. She looked down and said, ‘Are we having fun?’ ”