NASCAR Race Mom: 2018 Nominees for the #NASCAR Hall of Fame Class and Landmark Award

Thursday, March 9, 2017

2018 Nominees for the #NASCAR Hall of Fame Class and Landmark Award

2018 Nominees for the #NASCAR Hall of Fame Class and Landmark Award Twenty nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame's Class of 2018, as well as the five nominees for the Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR were announced yesterday.

From the list of twenty NASCAR Hall of Fame nominees, five inductees will be elected by the NASCAR Hall of Fame Voting Panel, which includes a nationwide fan vote on NASCAR.com. Voting Day for the 2018 class will be Wednesday, May 24.

Following are the 20 nominees for induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, listed alphabetically:

Davey Allison, won 19 times in NASCAR's premier (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup) series, including the 1992 Daytona 500
Buddy Baker, won 19 times in NASCAR's premier series, including the Daytona 500 and Southern 500
Red Byron, first NASCAR premier series champion, in 1949
Ray Evernham, three-time NASCAR premier series championship crew chief
Red Farmer, three-time Late Model Sportsman champion; 1956 Modified champion
Ray Fox, legendary engine builder, crew chief and car owner
Joe Gibbs, combined for nine car owner championships in premier and XFINITY series
Ron Hornaday Jr., four-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion
Harry Hyde, 1970 NASCAR premier series championship crew chief
Alan Kulwicki, 1992 NASCAR premier series champion
Bobby Labonte, won a championship in both the premier series and XFINITY Series
Hershel McGriff, 1986 NASCAR west series champion
Roger Penske, combined for four car owner championships in premier and XFINITY series
Larry Phillips, only five-time NASCAR weekly series national champion
Jack Roush, five-time car owner champion in NASCAR's three national series
Ricky Rudd, won 23 times in NASCAR's premier series, including the 1997 Brickyard 400
Ken Squier, legendary radio and television broadcaster; inaugural winner/namesake of Squier-Hall Award for NASCAR Media Excellence
Mike Stefanik, winner of record-tying nine NASCAR championships
Waddell Wilson, won three NASCAR premier series championships as an engine builder
Robert Yates, won NASCAR premier series championship as both an engine builder and owner

#TBT May 1947: #NASCARHOF nominee Red Byron (born 3/12/1915) takes the checkered flag at a dirt track in Georgia nearly 70 years ago. pic.twitter.com/KNZIs2m455
— NASCAR Hall of Fame (@NASCARHall) March 9, 2017

The five nominees for the Landmark Award, listed alphabetically, are as follows...

Jim France, worked closely with father and NASCAR founder Bill France Sr.; current chairman of International Speedway Corporation
Janet Guthrie, the first female to compete in a NASCAR premier series superspeedway race
Alvin Hawkins, NASCAR's first flagman; established NASCAR racing at Bowman Gray Stadium with Bill France Sr.
Ralph Seagraves, formed groundbreaking Winston-NASCAR partnership as executive with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Ken Squier, legendary radio and television broadcaster; inaugural winner / namesake of Squier-Hall Award for NASCAR Media Excellence

Jim France joins the list of nominees for the 2018 NASCAR Hall of Fame Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR. #NASCARHall pic.twitter.com/77bWCBGzhL
— NASCAR Hall of Fame (@NASCARHall) March 9, 2017

If NASCAR Race Mom were given a vote, she would pick Hershel McGriff. McGriff exhibited a competitive passion that lasted longer than any driver in #NASCAR history – 62 Years! His first race was the 1950 Southern 500, in the NASCAR premier series’ sophomore season, at the age of 22. His final NASCAR race was at Sonoma Raceway in the K&N Pro Series West – in 2012 at the age of 84. Hershel started that race from twenty-fifth (25) and finished eighteenth (18) running just three laps down.

About the NASCAR Hall of Fame

Conveniently located in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, the NASCAR Hall of Fame is an interactive entertainment attraction honoring the history and heritage of NASCAR. The high-tech venue, designed to educate and entertain race fans and non-fans alike, opened May 11, 2010, and includes artifacts, hands-on exhibits, a 278-person state-of-the-art theater, Hall of Honor, Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant, NASCAR Hall of Fame Gear Shop and NASCAR Productions-operated broadcast studio.

The venue is open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. seven days a week and has an attached parking garage on Brevard Street. (Note: Winter operating hours are Nov. 1- March 31 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. seven days a week.) The 5-acre site also includes a privately developed 19-story office tower and 102,000-square-foot expansion to the Charlotte Convention Center, highlighted by a 40,000-square-foot ballroom.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame is owned by the City of Charlotte, licensed by NASCAR and operated by the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority. For more information, visit nascarhall.com.