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Dale Jarrett and Maurice Petty lead the list of NASCAR's Hall of Fame Class of 2014 inductees which includes Fireball Roberts, Tim Flock, and Jack Ingram.
The voting was conducted in Charlotte by a voting panel of 54 individuals coming from the sanctioning body, track owners, retired drivers, media and others.
Petty, the chief engine builder at Petty Enterprises, becomes fourth member of the dynasty to be chosen for membership in the NASCAR Hall of Fame - following his older brother Richard, father Lee and his cousin Dale Inman. The man simply called “Chief” supplied the horsepower that propelled Richard Petty to a majority of his record 200 NASCAR victories, plus his seven NASCAR premier series championships and seven Daytona 500 victories.
Jarrett is son of another Hall of Fame Inductee, Ned Jarrett. Dale Jarrett won the 1999 Sprint Cup championship and is a three-time Daytona 500 winner and two-time winner of the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway two of NASCAR biggest events. His 32 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories place him 21st on the all-time winner's list.
Odd as it sounds Glen Fireball Roberts got his nickname for his throwing arm in baseball, not for his racing accomplishments. His hard charging style made him the stock car based sports earliest superstars. During his career he often came up big in the biggest events, winning the Daytona 500 in 1962 and the Southern 500 in 1958 and '63. Overall, he won seven races at Daytona International Speedway, starting with the Firecracker 250 in the summer of 1959 - the year the speedway opened.
Tim Flock was a pioneer in the racing series which started in the southern states of the US. A two-time series champion his 39 victories puts him 18th on the all-time wins list. In 1955, driving Carl Kiekhaefer's Chrysler, he dominated that season, posting 18 wins, 32 top fives and 18 poles in 39 races. Flock's 18 wins stood as a single-season victory record until Richard Petty surpassed it with 27 wins in 1967. In those days in was common to race two and three times a week.
Jack Ingram was probably NASCAR's superstar in the junior series which is currently known as the Nationwide Series. Before the formation of the series, Ingram won three consecutive championships, from 1972-74, in its precursor - the Late Model Sportsman Division. When the NASCAR Busch Series was formed, he won the inaugural title in 1982 and again in '85. In his 10 years of competition in what was called the NASCAR Busch Series, Ingram had 31 wins, a record that stood until Mark Martin broke it in 1997. All but two of those wins came on short tracks.
The voting was conducted in Charlotte by a voting panel of 54 individuals coming from the sanctioning body, track owners, retired drivers, media and others.
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Petty, the chief engine builder at Petty Enterprises, becomes fourth member of the dynasty to be chosen for membership in the NASCAR Hall of Fame - following his older brother Richard, father Lee and his cousin Dale Inman. The man simply called “Chief” supplied the horsepower that propelled Richard Petty to a majority of his record 200 NASCAR victories, plus his seven NASCAR premier series championships and seven Daytona 500 victories.
Jarrett is son of another Hall of Fame Inductee, Ned Jarrett. Dale Jarrett won the 1999 Sprint Cup championship and is a three-time Daytona 500 winner and two-time winner of the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway two of NASCAR biggest events. His 32 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories place him 21st on the all-time winner's list.
Odd as it sounds Glen Fireball Roberts got his nickname for his throwing arm in baseball, not for his racing accomplishments. His hard charging style made him the stock car based sports earliest superstars. During his career he often came up big in the biggest events, winning the Daytona 500 in 1962 and the Southern 500 in 1958 and '63. Overall, he won seven races at Daytona International Speedway, starting with the Firecracker 250 in the summer of 1959 - the year the speedway opened.
Tim Flock was a pioneer in the racing series which started in the southern states of the US. A two-time series champion his 39 victories puts him 18th on the all-time wins list. In 1955, driving Carl Kiekhaefer's Chrysler, he dominated that season, posting 18 wins, 32 top fives and 18 poles in 39 races. Flock's 18 wins stood as a single-season victory record until Richard Petty surpassed it with 27 wins in 1967. In those days in was common to race two and three times a week.
Jack Ingram was probably NASCAR's superstar in the junior series which is currently known as the Nationwide Series. Before the formation of the series, Ingram won three consecutive championships, from 1972-74, in its precursor - the Late Model Sportsman Division. When the NASCAR Busch Series was formed, he won the inaugural title in 1982 and again in '85. In his 10 years of competition in what was called the NASCAR Busch Series, Ingram had 31 wins, a record that stood until Mark Martin broke it in 1997. All but two of those wins came on short tracks.