20 Finalists for Intl Motorsports Hall of Fame's Class of 2007 (1 Viewer)

[StockersRock]

20 Finalists for Intl Motorsports Hall of Fame's Class of 2007: Cotton Owens, the highly successful race driver and car owner, and Jack Ingram, the five-time champion of what is now NASCAR'S Busch Series, head the list of the Top 20 Finalists for the International Motorsports Hall of Fame's Class of 2007. Owens won over 400 Modified and Late Model Sportsman races, then captured 40 more as a car owner. Ingram won three Grand National titles in a row, then won the newly-named Busch Series in its first year in 1982 and then again in 1985. The duo heads a group of ten candidates that are affiliated with NASCAR. Others include former Champions Red Byron, Rex White, Jerry Cook, and Ray Hendrick, car owner Junie Donlavey, engine builder and crew chief Maurice Petty, promotional guru Ralph Seagraves and track owner Bruton Smith. Grumpy Jenkins, who won six NHRA titles as a car owner, and Warren Johnson, NHRA'S all-time winner in Pro Stock with 98 victories, represent drag racing. Sports car legends Oliver Gendebein and Brian Redman, Grand Prix driver Rene Dreyfus, car owner and promoter J. C. Agajanian, and Jan Opperman, who won big in both midgets and sprint cars, carry the banner of open-wheel racing. Others on the list of 20 finalists are three-time World Land Speed record holder Art Arfons, two-time AMA Superbike champion Wayne Rainey and record-setting test pilot Chuck Yeager. Final voting will be held over the next two months, and the five-man Class of 2007 will be announced in early November. See more on the International Motorsports Hall of Fame at motorsportshalloffame.com.(7-18-2006)

Awesome, they both deserve it.

 

[vegasnitro]

They both (the Grump and WJ) have to be locks right? I know there is a huge NASCAR bias (since it is at Talladega and all) but the cream usually rises in that Hall of Fame.