BREAKING: 2012 NASCAR HOF Class Announced

And the winners are:

From NASCAR their ownselves...

NASCAR announced today the 2012 class of inductees into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The five-person class, which will be officially inducted in a ceremony during the weekend of Jan. 20, 2012 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C., consists of: Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Dale Inman, Richie Evans and Glen Wood.

Members of the 55-member NASCAR Hall of Fame Voting Panel met today in a closed session in Charlotte, N.C., to vote on the induction class of 2012. The announcement was made by NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France in the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s “Great Hall.”

The class was determined by votes cast by the Voting Panel, which included a nationwide fan vote conducted through NASCAR.COM. The accounting firm of Ernst & Young presided over the tabulation of the votes.

As was the case for the first two classes of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, the results of this year’s voting were competitive. Yarborough led with 85 percent of the vote, followed by Waltrip (82%), Inman (78%), Evans (50%) and Wood (44%).

For those of you who don't know... Inman was Richard Petty's crew chief, Evans is NASCAR's King of the Modified Division and Wood is from the Wood Brothers...

Congrats to all the winners selected from the 25-finalist class...

Waltrip & Allison Nominated For NASCAR Hall Of Fame

As the NASCAR Hall of Fame begins the process of inducting their inaugural class and 5 will get in we know 2 of the 25 nominees for that honor.

Legendary drivers Bobby Allison and Darrelll Waltrip are on the nominee list. The rest of the 25 will be revealed Thursday night on SPEED.

Allison won 84 Sprint Cup races, 3 Daytona 500's and the Cup Championship in 1983.

D.W. won 84 Sprint Cup races (just like Allison) 3 Cup Championships (1981, 1982 and 1985) and 1 Daytona 500 (1989).

Both had impressive careers and are legendary drivers but would Allison and Waltrip be one of the First Five in?

Those of us at the OSG HQ say the odds are against them but they will get in eventually.

First here is Bobby Allison's last Daytona 500 win in 1988 (Thanks CBS Sports/SPEED/Youtube.com)



And now here is Darrell Waltrip's only Daytona 500 victory the next year. (Thanks CBS Sports/SPEED/Youtube.com)