NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2024 nominees

2024 Modern Era Ballot
Jimmie Johnson
Years on ballot: 1
Credentials: Seven NASCAR Cup Series championships, tied with Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty for the series' most titles. Johnson additionally won 83 Cup races, including two Daytona 500s and four Coca-Cola 600s over his 19 full-time seasons as a driver. He currently co-owns Legacy Motor Club.

Chad Knaus
Years on ballot: 1
Credentials: Crew chief for all seven of Jimmie Johnson's NASCAR Cup Series championships, earning 81 wins atop the No. 48 team's pit box before guiding William Byron to victory in 2020.

Neil Bonnett
Years on ballot: 4
Credentials: 18 career victories in the NASCAR Cup Series, including two Coca-Cola 600 triumphs. Bonnett also was an adept broadcaster in his later years.

Tim Brewer
Years on ballot: 2
Credentials: Over his 30-year career as a crew chief, Brewer racked up 53 victories – including two Southern 500s – and 55 poles. Brewer led Hall of Famers Cale Yarborough and Darrell Waltrip to 32 wins during a magical four-year stretch, bookended by two championships.

Jeff Burton
Years on ballot: 3
Credentials: Skilled as both a NASCAR statesman, a driver and broadcaster, Burton scored 21 Cup Series wins, including two Coca-Cola 600 victories and one Southern 500 crown.

Carl Edwards
Years on ballot: 3
Credentials: Edwards boasts 72 NASCAR national series wins, including 28 in the Cup Series before his departure from the sport in 2017. He was crowned champion in the Xfinity Series in 2007.

Harry Gant
Years on ballot: 5
Credentials: Winner of 18 NASCAR premier series races, including two Southern 500 victories. His run of four consecutive victories at age 51 captivated fans in 1991.

Harry Hyde
Years on ballot: 8
Credentials: Crew chief for Bobby Isaac during the Nord Krauskopf team's run to the 1970 NASCAR premier series championship. Notched 55 Cup Series wins in a 26-year career.

Larry Phillips
Years on ballot: 10
Credentials: The sport's only five-time NASCAR weekly series national champion, the Missouri native collected wins by the hundreds and claimed 13 track titles across three states.

Ricky Rudd
Years on ballot: 7
Credentials: Hard-nosed Virginia native won 23 times on NASCAR's top circuit and ranks second in all-time starts (906). Rudd posted at least one win for 16 straight seasons from 1983-98.

2024 Pioneer Ballot
Sam Ard
Years on ballot: 3, nonconsecutive (2020, '23, '24)
Credentials: Ard was a master of short tracks across the Southeast and shined in the NASCAR Late Model Sportsman Series in the 1970s. But his true brilliance came with the creation of what is now the NASCAR Xfinity Series, where he won 22 times and was the series champion in 1983 and 1984.

Donnie Allison
Years on ballot: 2
Credentials: Allison won 10 times in his Cup Series career and was an indellible member of the famed "Alabama Gang."

AJ Foyt
Years on ballot: 2
Credentials: NASCAR might not have been Foyt's primary endeavor, but when he entered a Cup Series race, he elevated the profile of the sport … and the competition on the track. Foyt made 128 NASCAR Cup Series starts over 30 years, including at least three races every season from 1963-77. His crowning NASCAR achievement came in February 1972 when Foyt won the Daytona 500 for the Wood Brothers.

Banjo Matthews
Years on ballot: 3
Credentials: Edwin Keith "Banjo" Matthews spent his early career as a driver, then a winning owner and crew chief. His later years in racing were spent as a prolific car builder who dominated the 1970s and '80s.

Ralph Moody
Years on ballot: 5
Credentials: Mechanical whiz paired with businessman John Holman to create Holman-Moody, a dominant racing team that claimed two championships with David Pearson and also landed Daytona 500 wins with Fred Lorenzen (1965) and Mario Andretti (1967).

2024 Landmark Award
Janet Guthrie
Years on ballot: 2
Credentials: Janet Guthrie moved on from a successful career as an aerospace engineer in the early 1960s, trading equations for a wheel to become a full-time racer in 1972. A true pioneer in motorsports, Guthrie became the first woman to compete in a NASCAR Cup Series superspeedway race when she drove to a 15th-place finish in the 1976 World 600. The next year, she piloted cars in the Daytona 500 and Indianapolis 500, becoming the first female to participate in both events.

Les Richter
Years on ballot: 1
Credentials: Les Richter, a 2011 inductee to the Pro Football Hall of Fame after a nine-year playing career with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams, served as president of Riverside International Raceway before later serving as NASCAR's head of operations.

Alvin Hawkins
Years on ballot: 6
Credentials: Alvin Hawkins was NASCAR's first flagman, and he attended the momentous 1947 meeting at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, that signaled the start of what would become the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Later, Bill France Sr. and Hawkins established NASCAR racing at Bowman Gray Stadium. The Hawkins family continues to operate the quarter-mile track, one that is an institution in the sport and a crown jewel for short track racers throughout the country.

Lesa France Kennedy
Years on ballot: 2
Credentials: Lesa France Kennedy is the Executive Vice Chair of NASCAR and one of the most influential women in sports. Kennedy spearheaded the revitalization of Phoenix Raceway and the state-of-the-art Daytona Rising project at Daytona International Speedway. She also helped cement NASCAR’s presence in the Midwest with the building of Kansas Speedway.

Dr. Joseph Mattioli
Years on ballot: 4
Credentials: One of the most universally revered members of the sport of auto racing, Dr. Joseph (Doc) Mattioli founded Pocono Raceway in 1968 in the lush and scenic Pocono Mountains. The 2.5-mile triangular-shaped track has hosted all of America’s top racing series but has been a particularly prime stop on the NASCAR schedule. It was designed by two-time Indy 500 winner Rodger Ward and each of the three turns is completely different – each modeled off another track.