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NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2019 inductees announced

By Asher Fair

CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 23: A general view of the 2019 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees during the NACAR Hall of Fame Voting Day at NASCAR Hall of Fame on May 23, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 23: A general view of the 2019 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees during the NACAR Hall of Fame Voting Day at NASCAR Hall of Fame on May 23, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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After the 20 nominees were announced in March, the five inductees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2019 have been announced.

On Friday, February 1, 2019, five more people are set to be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The five inductees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2019 were announced on Wednesday.

Those five inductees were elected from a list of 20 nominees that was voted on and determined earlier this year in March by a nominating committee made up of NASCAR and NASCAR Hall of Fame representatives.

Here is a list of all 20 NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2019 nominees in alphabetical order.

  • Davey Allison
  • Buddy Baker
  • Red Farmer
  • Ray Fox
  • Harry Gant
  • Joe Gibbs
  • Jeff Gordon
  • John Holman
  • Harry Hyde
  • Alan Kulwicki
  • Bobby Labonte
  • Hershel McGriff
  • Ralph Moody
  • Roger Penske
  • Larry Phillips
  • Jack Roush
  • Ricky Rudd
  • Kirk Shelmerdine
  • Mike Stefanik
  • Waddell Wilson

The five inductees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2019 are, in alphabetical order, Davey Allison, Jeff Gordon, Alan Kulwicki, Roger Penske and Jack Roush.

Allison, who was killed at the age of 32 in a helicopter crash at Talladega in July of 1993, won 19 NASCAR Cup Series races in roughly six and a half seasons as a full-time driver before he was killed in his seventh full-time season in the sport. One of the races that he won was the 1992 Daytona 500. His father, the 80-year-old Bobby Allison, is already in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Gordon, 46, is a four-time Cup Series champion and three-time Daytona 500 champion who officially retired from Cup Series competition after competing full-time from the 1993 season to the 2015 season and part-time in the 2016 season as one of the replacement drivers for the injured Dale Earnhardt Jr. He ended his Cup Series career with 93 victories, a total that puts him third on the all-time wins list. He currently serves as a Fox Sports analyst during Cup Series races.

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Kulwicki, like Allison, also died young. He was killed in a plane crash at the age of 38 in April of 1993 just over three months before Allison was killed. Kulwicki was in his seventh season as a full-time Cup Series drivers when he was killed as well.

He had five career Cup Series victories to his name and had just come off his championship-winning season in 1992 when he drove for the small team that he co-owned, AK Racing. He was one of the sport’s greatest revolutionaries as a college-educated engineer. He was an underdog throughout his career, but he overcame all of the odds and became the first driver who had had a college education to win a Cup Series championship.

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Penske, 81, and Roush, 76, currently own and co-own Team Penske and Roush Fenway Racing, respectively, in the Cup Series. Penske won the 2012 Cup Series championship with Brad Keselowski, and Roush won the 2003 Cup Series championship and the 2004 Cup Series championship with Matt Kenseth and Kurt Busch, respectively, as his drivers.

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