Two drivers – each from Fashionable Period Poll – and one workforce proprietor – from the Pioneer Poll – have been elected Tuesday to turn out to be the NASCAR Corridor of Fame’s class of inductees in 2025.
Fashionable Period Poll
Ricky Rudd: The Virginia native held the Cup file for consecutive begins (788) earlier than Jeff Gordon broke it in 2015. His 906 collection begins rank second solely to seven-time champion Richard Petty (1,185). Throughout his 32-year Cup profession, Rudd earned 23 wins, 194 top-five and 374 top-10 finishes and gained 29 poles. He offered Richard Childress Racing’s first win in 1983 and he gained six races along with his personal workforce, together with the 1997 Brickyard 400. Rudd completed a career-best second within the collection standings in 1991 and gained at the very least one race in 16 consecutive seasons (tied for third-longest in collection historical past).
Carl Edwards: Edwards began off instead trainer however ultimately joined Roush Fenway Racing to compete within the Truck collection, which kicked off a profession that would come with 29 Cup wins, 38 Xfinity wins, together with the 2007 championship, and 6 Truck victories. Over this 13-year Cup profession, Edwards took victories within the Coca Cola 600 and Southern 500. In completed second within the collection standings twice, together with the closest end in NASCAR historical past when he misplaced the 2011 title to Tony Stewart in a tiebreaker. Edwads retired from full-time Cup competitors following the 2016 season.
Pioneer Poll
Ralph Moody: Moody gained 5 NASCAR Cup races between 1956-57 however is greatest contribution to NASCAR got here when he paired with John Holman to kind Holman-Moody Racing in 1957. The group competed in NASCAR till 1973 and gained consecutive Cup titles with David Pearson (1968-69) and captured the 1967 Daytona 500 with driver Mario Andretti. General, Holman-Moody earned 96 wins and 83 poles in 525 collection begins.
The 2025 Corridor of Fame class will likely be formally inducted in January 2025. This was the fourth class decided beneath the redesigned format for Corridor inductions.
There have been 10 nominees on the Fashionable Period poll and 5 on the Pioneer poll – designed to honor these whose careers started greater than 60 years in the past. Two Fashionable Period candidates and one Pioneer candidate now compose every Corridor class.
Landmark Award
Dr. Dean Sicking: He’s finest referred to as a co-inventor of the SAFER (Metal and Foam Power Discount) barrier, an development that has saved numerous lives of drivers during the last 20 years.
Rudd acquired 87% of the Fashionable Period poll votes with Edwards receiving 52%. Harry Gant completed third, adopted by Jeff Burton and Harry Hyde.
Ralph Moody acquired 60% of the Pioneer poll votes. Ray Hendrick completed second.
Outcomes for the Fan Vote have been: Hendrick (Pioneer); Edwards and Gant (Fashionable Period).
In all, 62 votes have been forged, with two extra Voting Panel members recused from voting as potential nominees for induction (Burton and Rudd). The accounting agency of EY presided over the tabulation of votes
Word: Motorsport.com NASCAR Editor Jim Utter is a member of the Corridor of Fame Voting Panel. He voted for Ricky Rudd and Harry Gant on the Fashionable Period poll; Banjo Matthews on the Pioneer poll; and Dr. Dean Sicking for the Landmark Award.
