Hall of Fame: Your turn
So Charlotte got the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Like that wasn't going to happen. (Here is the official NASCAR list of talking points. My favorite is Number 6: What does NASCAR get? I'm sure it took a lot of restraint on someone's part to keep that question outside of the top 5.)
Now that the who's-gonna-get-it game has ended, it's now time to play the who's-gonna-get-IN game. Dustin Long played a round in today's paper. His picks for an inaugural class: Petty, Pearson, Earnhardt, France Sr., Junior Johnson, Darlington and the 1979 Daytona 500.
Nobody said the hall has to honor just drivers, right?
Duane Cross of nascar.com plays, too.
Update: Charlotte's David Poole puts forward his 25 picks for who should be in the hall.
Also, I updated the post title. Too many Hall of Fame posts recently.
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I would be interested in learning how broad the view of NASCAR is going to be for these purposes. I do not see "Winston Cup/Nextel Cup in the heading for this Hall of Fame. Therefore I would throw out other names and regions of the country.
Winston West - Hershel McGriff
Busch - Jack Ingram, Tommy Houston, Tommy Ellis
Modified - One of the original series of NASCAR and cannot be ignored. Richie Evans
Posted on March 7, 2006 4:10 PM
I think I'm the dumbest person on the planet. Mark, you're about the third person to mention Richie Evans, and I had no freakin' clue who he was until yesterday. (Dustin was one, but he ultimately went with the Darlington/'79 Daytona pics instead.)
So here's more on Evans here and here for anyone who's interested.
Consider me schooled.
Posted on March 7, 2006 4:19 PM
The great thing is, there are no rules for induction to the Hall yet. NASCAR has a lot of time to figure out the proper way to do it.
Posted on March 8, 2006 8:29 AM
John, Richie Evans was THE MAN in the Northeast for many, many years. When Evans came to your hometown track you were obviously having the biggest race of the year there.
What made him so tough is he would show up at tracks only once or twice a year and wear people out. Locally, he used to come by Bowman-Grey in the 70's and early 80's for the season opener.
It hurt me more when he died and Charlie Jarzombeck died the next year at the opposite end of the track, than when Earnhardt was killed because these 2 guys were heroes of my youth.
Posted on March 8, 2006 11:04 AM
By the way John, you are not the dumb one, I am for a glaring ommission from my first list.
If I am going to use grass roots, local track criterion, I need to include someone from your native Virginia. Ray Hendrick must be included on any induction list. He drove Late Models & Modifieds throughout the Southeast and would come up North every year and steal a big win or two.
The equivalent to my post above would be that Hendrick would go to the old Langley Speedway and blow people away.
Posted on March 8, 2006 11:29 AM