Nominees for 2015 NASCAR Hall of Fame announced

February 21, 2014 Greg Engle Main Page, NASCAR News Top Story, Top Stories 0

Five names were added to the 2015 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame Friday. (Greg Engle, Getty Images)

 

Five names were added to the 2015 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame Friday. (Greg Engle, Getty Images)
Five names were added to the 2015 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame Friday. (Greg Engle, Getty Images)

Five names were added to the 2015 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame Friday.  The announcement came after the first in-person meeting among the NASCAR Hall of Fame nominating committee in the hall’s history.

Buddy Baker, Bill Elliott, Terry Labonte, Mike Stefanik and Robert Yates were added to the list of 20 names.  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 2015 class will be Wednesday, May 21.

Also announced were potential Landmark Award recipients.  As was first announced last November during NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week, potential Landmark Award recipients could include competitors or those working in the sport as a member of a racing organization, track facility, race team, sponsor, media partner or being a general ambassador for the sport through a professional or non-professional role. Award winners remain eligible for NHOF enshrinement.

The five nominees for the inaugural Landmark Award are H. Clay Earles, Anne B. France, Raymond Parks, Ralph Seagraves and Ken Squier (more on each below). Parks is the only individual who was included as both a NASCAR Hall of Fame nominee and a Landmark Award nominee. MORE>>>

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Greg is a published award winning sportswriter who spent 23 years combined active and active reserve military service, much of that in and around the Special Operations community. Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.