NASCAR Inducts 5 Into It's Hall Of Fame

Tonight, NASCAR inducted 3 drivers, owner and a crew chief into it's Hall of Fame.  Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Dale Inman, Glen Wood and Richie Evans are the inductees. 
From NASCAR.Com: The class was determined by votes cast by the voting panel, which included a nationwide fan vote conducted through NASCAR.COM. The accounting firm of Ernst & Young presided over the tabulation of the votes.

As was the case for the first two classes of the NASCAR Hall Of Fame, the results of this year's voting were competitive. Yarborough led with 85 percent of the vote, followed by Waltrip (82 percent), Inman (78 percent), Evans (50 percent) and Wood (44 percent).

Also receiving votes were Jerry Cook, Cotton Owens, Raymond Parks and Herb Thomas.

The fans' five picks, in alphabetical order, were Richard Childress, Benny Parsons, Fireball Roberts, Waltrip and Yarborough.

The five inductees came from a group of 25 nominees for induction into the 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame class that included:

Buck Baker, Red Byron, Richard Childress, Jerry Cook, H. Clay Earles, Richie Evans, Tim Flock, Rick Hendrick, Jack Ingram, Bobby Isaac, Dale Inman, Fred Lorenzen, Cotton Owens, Raymond Parks, Benny Parsons, Les Richter, Fireball Roberts, T. Wayne Robertson, Herb Thomas, Curtis Turner, Darrell Waltrip, Joe Weatherly, Glen Wood, Leonard Wood and Cale Yarborough.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame opened on May 11, 2010 in Uptown Charlotte, N.C. The 150,000 square foot entertainment complex honors the history and heritage of NASCAR and the many who have contributed to the success of the sport. In its first year of operation, the NASCAR Hall of Fame entertained more than 270,000 customers, making it the second-most visited sports hall of fame in North America.
http://www.nascar.com/news/110614/hof-class-of-2012/index.html
There were a lot of deserving candidates to go into the Hall and the 5 best got into the Hall tonight.  However, since the NASCAR Hall of Fame is fairly new, we will have some really good Hall of Fame classes for years to come.