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Person Image Role Notes Dale Earnhardt: Driver and owner: 7-time Cup drivers champion, 76 race wins, 281 top 5s, 428 top 10s, 22 poles, 1998 Daytona 500 winner, 3-time Coca-Cola 600 winner, 1995 Brickyard 400 winner, 3-time Southern 500 winner, 3-time All-Star Race winner, leads drivers in wins at Atlanta Motor Speedway (9) and Talladega Superspeedway (10), 1979 Rookie of the Year, founder of ...
NASCAR committed to building a Hall of Fame and on March 6, 2006, the City of Charlotte was selected as the location. Ground was broken for the $160 million facility on January 26, 2007, and it officially opened on May 11, 2010, [1] with the inaugural class inducted the day following the 2010 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.
Many NASCAR Grand National Division, West Series champions are inducted in the Hall of Fame. Today, it is a digital hall of fame located online (Official website) with memorabilia located at the Estrella Museum in Paso Robles, California. Inductees are honored at an annual banquet in June at the Turn 11 Club, Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, Calif.
The IMHOF was established in early 1970 following NASCAR founder Bill France Sr.'s decision to hire short track racing promoter Don Naman to build a museum and hall of fame in order "to preserve the history of motorsports and to enshrine forever the people who have been responsible for its growth."
The Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR is an award in the NASCAR Hall of Fame that is presented to someone who has made significant contributions to NASCAR. The award was created in 2015 and was designed for people who were not drivers to be recognized in the Hall of Fame (drivers can still be nominated and win the award ...
International Motorsports Hall of Fame (1990) Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (1993) [1] NASCAR Hall of Fame (2011) Named one of NASCAR's 75 Greatest Drivers (2023) NASCAR Cup Series career; 574 races run over 27 years: Best finish: 1st (1966, 1968, 1969) First race: 1960 Daytona 500 qualifier #1 : Last race: 1986 Champion Spark Plug 400 ...
Bodine has driven for some of the best car owners in NASCAR, including Junior Johnson, Bud Moore and Rick Hendrick as well as owning his own cars, which he ran for several seasons after buying the assets of Alan Kulwicki's race team after his death in 1993. He has 565 starts, 37 poles, 18 wins, and nearly $16 million in winnings during his ...
Moody, who died at 86 in 2004, has been voted into the Hall of Fame from the “Pioneer Ballot.” He racked up four of his five career wins during the 1956 NASCAR season, nearly a decade after ...