"I ran with some of the best drivers ever – Lee Petty, Buck Baker and the Flock brothers," Herb Thomas said. "We raced hard and had a good time doing it."

After serving in the Navy during World War II, Cotton Owens began racing in 1950 and became known as "The King Of The Modifieds," scoring approximately 100 feature wins.

Officials at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte believe they've found cures for the common summer.

Sprint Cup champion Rusty Wallace heads the group of five picked for the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Wednesday.

Scott Fowler: If any of NASCAR’s Hall of Fame voters thought picking the members of the first three classes was just too hard, they might as well skip voting in Charlotte on Wednesday.

Jim Utter: Next week, five more members will be selected by voters for the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Wendell Scott and Rusty Wallace lead the list of nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s Class of 2013.

Attendance at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in December was 15,428 people, down only slightly from the 16,136 people who visited in December 2010.

Tom Sorensen: The great crew chiefs make consistently good calls. On Friday night, NASCAR made one, too. NASCAR inducted its third Hall of Fame class, and its first crew chief.

Jim Utter: Hall of Famer David Pearson has known Cotton Owens for a long time. "I always pulled for him before I ever started racing."

More than 50 drivers from the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Truck series will appear at the inaugural NASCAR Preview 2012 Presented by Sprint Saturday at the Charlotte Convention Center.

Each of the five NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees has left an indelible mark on the sport to which they have devoted their lives.

Racing legends honored at Friday night's 2012 induction ceremony at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte.

Ever met a NASCAR Hall of Famer? Your chance is coming this weekend.

The five racers who make up the 2012 Class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Tom Higgins: To change tires or not to change tires? Dale Inman's answer set up a dramatic Daytona 500 win and an emotional celebration.

The 25 nominees for NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2013, announced Wednesday evening:

Stage is set at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte for five more racing legends to be enshrined.

Perhaps had Darrell Waltrip not come along when he did, spewing tire smoke and attitude when he came out of Owensboro, Ky., big-time stock-car racing would have been forced to create him.

The first three classes of NASCAR’s Hall of Fame mostly have been reserved for the giants of the sport’s top series – men with names like Earnhardt, Petty, Pearson and France.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame had 15,189 visitors in November, down 18 percent compared with the same month in 2010.

Ever met a NASCAR Hall of Famer? Your chance is coming this weekend.

Charlotte-based online footwear retailer Heels.com is moving its headquarters to the NASCAR Plaza office building, a major tenant-signing for the building that was foreclosed on last year.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame's Class of 2012 is built on pure performance.

It’s a guys’ week for two Florida men – seven halls of fame in seven days, ending Friday at the NASCAR shrine in Charlotte.

This year's inductees to the NASCAR Hall of Fame: Darrell Waltrip, Richie Evans, Dale Inman, Glen Wood and Cale Yarborough.

Attendance at the NASCAR Hall of Fame fell nearly 40 percent in June compared with the same month a year ago, a development that could bring more cost-cutting to the city-owned hall.

There were laughs. There were tears. And there were a lot of stories. It was another induction at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Attendance at the NASCAR Hall of Fame fell in October by 30 percent compared with the same month in 2010.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame lost $177,450 in August on attendance of 16,703 people, according to financial information released Wednesday by the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority.

Attendance at the NASCAR Hall of Fame fell 30 percent in May 2011 compared with the same month a year earlier – the first year-over-year comparison for the city-owned attraction.

The NASCAR Hall of Fame will collect school supplies for Classroom Central Aug. 6-14.

If the inaugural group in the NASCAR Hall Fame appeared more of a “founder’s class,” this year’s five inductees could be described as figures who helped build stock car racing – both on the track and off.

Scott Fowler: There are a lot of things to like about the second NASCAR Hall of Fame class to be inducted in Charlotte, but one of the simplest is this: It focuses on speed, not money.

Bobby Allison, 73 years old with a slight limp and a thick head of silver-gray hair, is sitting in a Cracker Barrel restaurant just off Interstate 77 nursing a cup of coffee that he's turned tan by adding cream and sugar.

If you're lucky, and you hit the right Carolinas dirt track on the right summer night, you might look out on the oval and see a driver with silver hair and a '37 flathead Ford.

Gen. George C. Patton would have been proud of Bud Moore. Through five decades, Moore commanded his NASCAR teams in the same manner Patton led his troops in World War II.

A NASCAR racing legacy was born out of necessity and it became the family business.

Ned Jarrett had just won NASCAR's Grand National championship in 1961. A tough, intense driver who backed down from not even the sport's biggest names, Jarrett had 23 top-five finishes to go along with a victory at Fairgrounds Raceway in Birmingham, Ala.