While usually spot on with its inductions, this year the HoF voting panel made mistakes with two of its Class of 2024 entries.
, Donnie Allison shouldn’t have been named in his first year of eligibility. His 53 percent approval rating speaks volumes about the panel’s opinion of his career.The “other Allison” raced sporadically for parts of 21 years, but never ran anything approaching a full season.
Supporters spoke eloquently about her career-best sixth-place at Bristol in 1977 without mentioning that she was 13 laps behind that night.A handful of current drivers and crew chiefs likely will retire and become HOF eligible by the end of this decade.Getty Images Depending on when that group retires and becomes eligible, Modern-Era ballot holdovers Neil Bonnett, Harry Gant, Carl Edwards, Jeff Burton, and Ricky Rudd might not make it.A.J. Foyt and the late Sam Ard will remain on the Pioneer ballot for the foreseeable future. Future Pioneer ballot nominees should include short-track champions Butch Lindley and L.D. Ottinger.
And somewhere down the road—for better or for worse—get ready for Danica Patrick’s name to show up. You have been warned.Unemployed after three years as an Army officer and Vietnam vet, Al Pearce shamelessly lied his way onto a small newspaper’s sports staff in Virginia in 1969. He inherited motorsports, a strange and unfamiliar beat which quickly became an obsession.
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