Updated April 21, 2011
This week NASCAR announced the list of 25 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s third induction class to be enshrined in January 2012. From this list, five inductees will be elected by the NASCAR Hall of Fame Voting Panel, which includes a nationwide fan vote on NASCAR.COM.
Voting opens April 28th.
Here are the 25 nominees:
- Buck Baker - first driver to win consecutive NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series championships (1956-57)
- Red Byron - first NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series championin 1949
- Richard Childress - 11-time car owner champion in NASCAR's three national series
- Jerry Cook - six-time NASCAR Modified champion
- H. Clay Earles - founder of Martinsville Speedway
- Richie Evans - nine-time NASCAR Modified champion
- Tim Flock - two-time NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series champion
- Rick Hendrick - 13-time car owner champion in NASCAR's three national series
- Jack Ingram - two-time NASCAR Busch (now Nationwide) Series champion
- Dale Inman - eight-time NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series championship crew chief
- Bobby Isaac - 1970 NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series champion
- Fred Lorenzen - 26 wins and winner of the Daytona 500 and World 600
- Cotton Owens - driver-owner won 1966 owner championship with David Pearson
- Raymond Parks - NASCAR's first champion car owner
- Benny Parsons - 1973 NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series champion
- Les Richter - former NASCAR executive; former president of Riverside International Raceway
- Fireball Roberts - won 33 NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series races including the 1962 Daytona 500
- T. Wayne Robertson - helped raise NASCAR popularity as R.J. Reynolds Senior VP
- Herb Thomas - first two-time NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series champion (1951, 1953)
- Curtis Turner - early personality called the "Babe Ruth of stock car racing"
- Darrell Waltrip - 84 wins and three NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series championships
- Joe Weatherly - two-time NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series champion
- Glen Wood - as driver laid foundation for Wood Brothers' future team success
- Leonard Wood - part-owner and former crew chief for Wood Brothers who revolutionized pit stops
- Cale Yarborough - three consecutive NASCAR premier (now Sprint Cup) series titles (1976 - 1978)
