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The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is a Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

A hall of fame is a type of museum established for any a field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field.In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or museums which enshrine the honorees with sculptures, plaques, and displays of memorabilia....
 and museum in Novi, Michigan
Novi, Michigan

Novi is a city in Oakland County, Michigan of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the United States Census, 2000, the population was 47,386. In 2007, the city completed a special census which places the current population at 52,231....
 for American
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The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 motorsports legends.

museum hosts over forty motorports-related vehicles. The collection is constantly changing. There are exhibits and displays of racing personalities, vehicles, and memorabilia.

ibility for induction is extended to "any person who has driven, piloted, owned, designed, built, supported, maintained, prepared or promoted motorized vehicles in pursuit of speed, distance or other records." An inductee must either be retired for at least three years, or engaged in the top level for their area of motorsports for at least twenty years.

A panel of prior inductees, historians, journalists, and retired competitors vote for the final selections.






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The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is a Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame

A hall of fame is a type of museum established for any a field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field.In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or museums which enshrine the honorees with sculptures, plaques, and displays of memorabilia....
 and museum in Novi, Michigan
Novi, Michigan

Novi is a city in Oakland County, Michigan of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the United States Census, 2000, the population was 47,386. In 2007, the city completed a special census which places the current population at 52,231....
 for American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 motorsports legends.

Museum

The museum hosts over forty motorports-related vehicles. The collection is constantly changing. There are exhibits and displays of racing personalities, vehicles, and memorabilia.

Hall of Fame

Eligibility for induction is extended to "any person who has driven, piloted, owned, designed, built, supported, maintained, prepared or promoted motorized vehicles in pursuit of speed, distance or other records." An inductee must either be retired for at least three years, or engaged in the top level for their area of motorsports for at least twenty years.

A panel of prior inductees, historians, journalists, and retired competitors vote for the final selections. Inductees receive the "Horsepower" award on the Wednesday before the NASCAR
NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the largest sanctioning body of stock cars in the United States. The three largest racing series sanctioned by NASCAR are the Sprint Cup Series, the Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series....
 Sprint Cup Series Michigan 400
LifeLock 400

The LifeLock 400 is the first of two NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car racing held at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan, Michigan, the other being the 3M Performance 400....
, held in mid-June at Michigan International Speedway
Michigan International Speedway

Michigan International Speedway is a two-mile moderate-banked D-shaped superspeedway located off U.S. Highway 12 on more than near Brooklyn, Michigan, in the scenic Irish Hills area of southeastern Michigan....
.

List of inductees

  • J.C. Agajanian
    Christopher J.C. Agajanian

    Joshua "J.C./Aggie" Agajanian was an influential figure in United States motorsports history. He was a promoter and race car owner....
     - at-large (1992)
  • Bobby Allison
    Bobby Allison

    Robert Arthur Allison is a former NASCAR NEXTEL Cup driver and was named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers. His two sons, Clifford Allison and Davey Allison followed him into racing, and both died within a year of each other....
     - stock cars (1992)
  • Joe Amato
    Joe Amato

    Joe Amato is an American dragster driver, who won the NHRA Top Fuel championship a record five occasions and scored 52 event victories, most of them with crew chief Tim Richards....
     - drag racing (2004)
  • Mario Andretti
    Mario Andretti

    Mario Gabriele Andretti is an Italian American former automobile auto racing driver, and one of the most successful United States in the history of the sport....
     - open wheel (1990)*
  • Michael Andretti
    Michael Andretti

    Michael Mario Andretti is an United States retired Champ Car and Formula One driver with Italy heritage. He now co-owns the Andretti Green Racing team in the Indy Racing League....
     - open wheel (2008)
  • Art Arfons
    Art Arfons

    Arthur Eugene "Art" Arfons was the world land speed record holder three times in 1964 – 1965 with his Green Monster series of jet-powered cars, after a series of Green Monster piston-engine and jet-engined dragsters....
     - at-large (1991)
  • Buck Baker
    Buck Baker

    Elzie Wylie Baker Sr. better known as Buck Baker was an United States racecar driver....
     - stock cars (1998)
  • Buddy Baker
    Buddy Baker

    Elzie Wylie Baker, Jr. is a former United States NASCAR racecar driver....
     - stock cars (2008)
  • Cannonball Baker
    Erwin George Baker

    Erwin George "Cannon Ball" Baker was a motorcycle and automobile auto racing driver and organizer in the first half of the 20th century. Baker began his public career as a vaudeville performer, but turned to driving and racing after winning a dirt-track motorcycle race in Crawfordsville, Indiana in about 1904....
     - motorcycles (1989 - inaugural inductee)
  • Tony Bettenhausen
    Tony Bettenhausen

    Melvin E. "Tony" Bettenhausen was an American racing driver, who won the American Championship Car Racing in 1951 and 1958.Bettenhausen was nicknamed the "Tinley Park Express" in honor of his hometown....
     - open wheel (1997)
  • George Bignotti - at-large (1993)
  • Keith Black
    Keith Black (engineer)

    Keith Black was a producer of high performance drag racing engines, often used in Top Fuel and Tractor pulling applications....
     - drag racing (1995)
  • Bob Bondurant
    Bob Bondurant

    Robert Bondurant is an United States former racecar driver who raced for the Scuderia Ferrari and Anglo American Racers teams in Formula One....
     - sports cars (2003)
  • Geoff Brabham
    Geoff Brabham

    Geoff Brabham is an Australian racing driver. He is the son of three-time Formula One World Champion Jack Brabham. Brabham spent the majority of his racing career in the United States....
     - sports cars (2004)
  • Clint Brawner - at-large (1998)
  • Craig Breedlove
    Craig Breedlove

    Craig Breedlove is a five-time world land speed record holder. He was the first to reach , , and , using several turbojet-powered vehicles that were all named "Spirit of America"....
     - at-large (1993)
  • Jimmy Bryan
    Jimmy Bryan

    James Ernest Bryan was an American racecar driver.Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Bryan died as a result of injuries sustained in a champ car race at Langhorne Speedway....
     - open wheel (1999)
  • Malcolm Campbell
    Malcolm Campbell

    Sir Malcolm Campbell was an England racing motorist and motoring journalist. He gained the world speed record on Land Speed Record and on Water speed record at various times during the 1920s and 1930s using List of Bluebird record-breaking vehicles....
     - at-large (1994)
  • Bill Cantrell
    William Cantrell

    William "Wild Bill" Cantrell was a Motorboat racing and American Championship Car Racing driver....
     - power boats (1992)
  • Tom Carnegie
    Tom Carnegie

    Tom Carnegie, born in 1919 in Norwalk, Connecticut as Carl Kenagy was the public address announcer for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1946 to 2006....
     - at-large (2006)*
  • Colin Chapman
    Colin Chapman

    Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman Order of the British Empire was an influential United Kingdom designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry....
     - at-large (1997)
  • Dean Chenoweth - power boats (1991)
  • Gaston Chevrolet
    Gaston Chevrolet

    Gaston Chevrolet was a France-born United States racecar champion driver and automobile manufacturer.Born near Beaune, in the C?te-d'Or d?partement of France where his Switzerland parents had emigrated to a few years earlier, he was the younger brother of Louis Chevrolet and Arthur Chevrolet ....
     - historic (2002)
  • Louis Chevrolet
    Louis Chevrolet

    Louis-Joseph Chevrolet , of French descent was a racing driver and a co-founder of the Chevrolet, which was acquired by General Motors Corporation and is their bestselling brand nationwide and in many cases synonymous with General Motors itself....
     - historic (1995)
  • Art Chrisman - drag racing (1997)
  • Jim Clark
    Jim Clark

    Jim Clark Officer of the Order of the British Empire was a Scotland Formula One Auto racing.He was the dominant driver of his era, winning two List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, in 1963 and 1965....
     - open wheel (1990)
  • Cook Cleland
    Cook Cleland

    Cook Cleland was a World War II United States Navy and civilian air race pilot. He participated in the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of the Philippine Sea....
     - air racing (2000)
  • Jacqueline Cochran
    Jacqueline Cochran

    Jacqueline Cochran was a pioneer American aviator, considered to be one of the most gifted racing pilots of her generation. She was an important contributor to the formation of the wartime Women's Army Corps and Women Airforce Service Pilots ....
     - air racing (1993)
  • Betty Cook - power boats (1996)
  • Earl Cooper
    Earl Cooper

    Earl Cooper was an United States racecar driver....
     - historic (2001)
  • Briggs Cunningham
    Briggs Cunningham

    Briggs Swift Cunningham II was an American sportsman who raced cars and yachts.He was a racing car constructor, driver and team owner; also a sports car manufacturer and automobile collector....
     - sports cars (1997)
  • Glenn Curtiss
    Glenn Curtiss

    Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation....
     - air racing (1990)
  • Jimmy Davis - motorcycles (1997)
  • Tom D'Eath
    Tom D'Eath

    Tom D?Eath was an United States hydroplane and racecar driver....
     - power boats (2000)
  • Roger DeCoster
    Roger DeCoster

    Roger De Coster is a Belgian motocross racer. His name is almost synonymous with the sport of motocross. He won five List of motocross World Championship results and tallied a record 36 500cc Grand Prix victories....
     - motorcycles (1994)
  • Ralph DePalma
    Ralph DePalma

    Ralph DePalma was an Italian-American racecar driving champion, most notably winner of the 1915 Indianapolis 500. His entry at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame estimates that he won about 2000 races, and he is credited with winning 24 American Championship Car Racing races....
     - historic (1992)
  • Pete DePaolo
    Pete DePaolo

    Pete DePaolo was an United States race car driver. He won the 1925 Indianapolis 500....
     - historic (1995)
  • Mark Donohue
    Mark Donohue

    Mark Neary Donohue, Jr. was an USA racecar driver known for his ability to set up his own race car and drive it consistently on the absolute limit....
     - sports cars (1990)
  • Ed Donovan
    Ed Donovan

    Ed Donovan is a Screen Actors Guild actor and the editor/publisher of In Focus Magazine, Florida's Film,Television and the Arts Industry Magazine....
     - drag racing (2003)
  • Jimmy Doolittle
    Jimmy Doolittle

    General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, United States Air Force was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served as a brigadier general, major general and lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during the World War II....
     - air racing (1989 - inaugural inductee)
  • Fred Duesenberg
    Fred Duesenberg

    Frederick Samuel Duesenberg was an automobile pioneer designer, manufacturer and sportsman....
     - historic (1997)
  • Amelia Earhart
    Amelia Earhart

    Amelia Mary Earhart ; was a noted United States aviation pioneer, and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross , awarded for becoming the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean....
     - air racing (1992)
  • Dale Earnhardt
    Dale Earnhardt

    Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an American race car driver, best known for his career driving stock cars in NASCAR's Winston Cup. Earnhardt had four children, Kerry Earnhardt, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and Taylor Earnhardt....
     - stock cars (2002)*
  • Chris Economaki
    Chris Economaki

    Christopher "Chris" Constantine Economaki is a legendary United States motorsports commentator, pit road reporter, and journalist. Chris Economaki has been given the title "The Dean of American Motorsports." Microsoft chose Economaki to author the auto racing history portion of its Encarta Encyclopedia....
     - at-large (1994)
  • Bill Elliott
    Bill Elliott

    William Clyde Elliott is a part-time driver and former champion of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Elliott was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America on August 15, 2007....
     - stock cars (2007)*
  • Bill Falck - air racing (1994)
  • Emerson Fittipaldi
    Emerson Fittipaldi

    Emerson Fittipaldi is a highly successful Brazilian automobile racing driver, winning championships in both Formula One and Champcars, and the Indianapolis 500 twice....
     - open wheel (2001)
  • Tim Flock
    Tim Flock

    Julius Timothy "Tim" Flock was one of NASCAR's early pioneers, and a two time series champion. He was a brother to NASCAR's second female driver Ethel Mobley and NASCAR pioneers Bob Flock and Fonty Flock....
     - stock cars (1999)
  • George Follmer
    George Follmer

    George Follmer is a retired United States race car driver, and one of the most successful road racers of the 1970s. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona....
     - sports cars (1999)
  • Elliott Forbes-Robinson
    Elliott Forbes-Robinson

    Elliott Forbes-Robinson is a road racing racecar driver. He is known for his race wins and championships in many different series, including the American Le Mans Series , Super Vee, Trans-Am Series, CanAm, International Motor Sports Association GTU, and the World Challenge Championship....
     - sports cars (2006)
  • John Force
    John Force

    John Force is an National Hot Rod Association drag racing and 14 - time Funny Car champion. He is one of the most dominant drag racers in the sport with 126 career victories....
     - drag racing (2008)
  • Henry Ford
    Henry Ford

    Henry Ford was the United States founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T History of the automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry....
     - historic (1996)
  • Danny Foster - power boats (2005)
  • A.J. Foyt - open wheel (1989 - inaugural inductee)*
  • Bill France, Jr.
    Bill France, Jr.

    William Clifton France , nicknamed "Bill Jr." and "Little Bill," was an United States auto racing executive who served from 1972 to 2000 as the head of NASCAR, the sanctioning body of United States-based stock car racing....
     - stock cars (2004)*
  • Bill France, Sr.
    William France Sr.

    William "Bill" Henry Getty France, Sr. "Big Bill" , was the co-founder of NASCAR, the sanctioning body of United States-based stock car racing....
     - stock cars (1990)
  • Don Garlits
    Don Garlits

    Donald Glenn Garlits is considered the father of drag racing. He is known as "Big Daddy" to drag racing fans around the world. Always a pioneer in the field of drag-racing, he, with the help of T.C....
     - drag racing (1989 - inaugural inductee)
  • Richie Ginther
    Richie Ginther

    Paul Richard "Richie" Ginther was a racecar driver from USA. During a varied career, the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix saw Ginther take Honda F1's first Grand Prix victory, a victory which would also prove to be Ginther's only win in Formula One....
     - at large (2008)
  • Shav Glick - at-large (2004)
  • Bob Glidden
    Bob Glidden

    Bob Glidden is a retired American drag racing. Glidden retired as the driver with the most wins in National Hot Rod Association history at that time , and he is currently the third most successful drag racer in the history of the NHRA behind Warren Johnson and John Force ....
     - drag racing (1994)*
  • Paul Goldsmith
    Paul Goldsmith

    Paul Goldsmith is a motorcycle Motorcycle Hall of Fame and former USAC and NASCAR driver....
     - stock cars (2008)
  • Andy Granatelli
    Andy Granatelli

    Anthony "Andy" Granatelli was the CEO of STP .Along with brothers Vince and Joe, Andy first worked as an auto mechanic and 'speed-shop' entrepreneur, modifying engines such as the 'flathead' Ford into racing-quality equipment....
     - at-large (2001)
  • Darryl Greenamyer - air racing (1997)
  • Peter H. Gregg - sports cars (2000)
  • Dan Gurney
    Dan Gurney

    Daniel Sexton Gurney is an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner.The son of a Metropolitan Opera star, he was born in Port Jefferson, New York, but moved to California as a teenager....
     - sports cars (1991)
  • Jim Hall
    Jim Hall (race car driver)

    Jim Hall is a former racecar driver and constructor from the United States. He competed in Formula One from to , participating in 12 World Championship Grands Prix and numerous non-Championship races....
     - sports cars (1994)
  • Chip Hanauer
    Chip Hanauer

    Lee Edward "Chip" Hanauer is the second most successful Hydroplane racing racer in history. He has won the American Power Boat Association Gold Cup a record 12 times and is the famous driver of one of the most famous boats in APBA history, the Miss Budweiser....
     - power boats (1995)*
  • Sam Hanks
    Sam Hanks

    Sam Hanks was an United States racecar driver who won the 1957 Indianapolis 500. He was a barnstorming, and raced Midget car racing and Champ Car cars....
     - open wheel (2000)
  • Bob Hannah
    Bob Hannah

    Robert "Hurricane" Hannah was one of the most successful motocross racers in American history. He won a total of seven American Motorcyclist Association List of AMA Motocross Champions....
     - motorcycles (2000)
  • Ray Harroun
    Ray Harroun

    Ray Harroun was an United States racecar driver, born in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania....
     - historic (2000)
  • C. J. Hart - drag racing (1999)
  • Hurley Haywood
    Hurley Haywood

    Hurley Haywood is an American race-car driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1977 , 1983 and 1994 and is the most winning driver at the 24 Hours of Daytona with 5...
     - sports cars (2005)*
  • Eddie Hill
    Eddie Hill

    Eddie Hill is a retired United States drag racer who won numerous drag racing championships on land and water. Hill had the first run in the four second range , which earned him the nickname "Four Father of Drag Racing." His other nicknames include "The Thrill", "Holeshot Hill", and "Fast Eddie"....
     - drag racing (2002)
  • Phil Hill
    Phil Hill

    Philip Toll Hill, Jr., was a United States automobile racer and the only American-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship....
     - sports cars (1989 - inaugural inductee)
  • Tommy Hinnershitz
    Tommy Hinnershitz

    Thomas Paul Hinnershitz was an American race car driver.Hinnershitz was active through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s on dirt track racing, asphalt and board track racing, driving Sprint Cars, at that time slightly smaller versions of Indianapolis cars that could be raced on half mile dirt race tracks....
     - historic (2003)
  • Al Holbert
    Al Holbert

    Alvah Robert "Al" Holbert was an United States automobile racing driver who was a five-time champion of the International Motor Sports Association IMSA GT Championship series....
     - sports cars (1993)
  • John Holman
    John Holman (NASCAR)

    John Holman was a NASCAR owner. He is most famous for his co-ownership of two time NASCAR championship team Holman Moody with Ralph Moody....
     - at-large (2005)
  • Ted Horn
    Ted Horn

    Ted Horn , born Eylard Theodore Von Horn, was an United States race car driver.Ted Horn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. The family moved several times during Ted's childhood, finally settling in Los Angeles....
     - open wheel (1993)
  • Tony Hulman
    Tony Hulman

    Anton "Tony" Hulman, Jr. was a businessman from Terre Haute, Indiana and graduated from Yale University in 1924.His business, Hulman & Company, produces Clabber Girl Baking Powder, which Tony made popular through the use of clever advertising in the 1930s....
     - at-large (1991)
  • Denis Hulme - sports cars (1998)
  • Tommy Ivo
    Tommy Ivo

    Tommy Ivo , also known as "TV Tommy," is an actor and drag racing, who was active in the 1960s racing community. In the late 1950s, Ivo raced a twin Nailhead Buick engined dragster which was the first Gasoline Powered dragster to break the nine second barrier....
     - drag racing (2005)
  • Ned Jarrett
    Ned Jarrett

    Ned Jarrett is a retired Auto racing driver and two-time NASCAR champion.Jarrett was best known for his calm demeanor, and he became known as "Gentleman Ned Jarrett"....
     - stock cars (1997)
  • Bill Jenkins
    Bill Jenkins (dragracer)

    William Tyler "Grumpy" Jenkins is an engine builder and retired drag racing. Between 1965 and 1975 he won a total of thirteen NHRA drag races....
     - drag racing (1996)
  • Gordon Johncock
    Gordon Johncock

    Gordon Johncock is a former racing driver, best known as a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 and the 1976 United States Automobile Club Marlboro Championship Trail champion....
     - open wheel (2002)
  • Junior Johnson
    Junior Johnson

    Robert Glen Johnson, Jr. , known as Junior Johnson, was a moonshiner in the rural South who became one of the early superstars of NASCAR in the 1950s and 1960s....
     - stock cars (1991)*
  • Parnelli Jones
    Parnelli Jones

    Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones , is a retired American racing driver and racecar owner. He is most remembered for his 1963 Indianapolis 500 Indianapolis 500 win, and almost winning the 1967 Indianapolis 500 Indy 500 in a turbine car....
     - at-large (1992)
  • Ted Jones
    Ted Jones (hydroplanes)

    Tudor Owen Jones was best known as an Unlimited Hydroplane designer and builder. One of his boats, the Slo-Mo-Shun, won the 1950 Gold Cup, and set a water speed record in Lake Washington, off Seattle, Washington 's Sand Point, on June 26, 1950, breaking the previous record by almost 20 mph....
     - power boats (2003)
  • Connie Kalitta
    Connie Kalitta

    Conrad "Connie" Kalitta is the CEO of Kalitta Air and a retired United States drag racing driver, once known as "The Bounty Hunter".He grew up in Mount Clemens, Michigan, and was a 1957 graduate of Mount Clemens High School....
     - drag racing (1992)
  • Chris Karamesines - drag racing (2006)
  • Mel Kenyon
    Mel Kenyon

    Mel Kenyon is a former midget car racing driver. He is known as the "King of the Midgets" , "Miraculous Mel" , and "Champion of Midget Auto Racing." The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America says "Many consider him to be midget car racing's greatest driver ever." ...
     - open wheel (2003)
  • Carl Kiekhaefer
    Carl Kiekhaefer

    Elmer Carl Kiekhaefer was the owner of Kiekhaefer Marine , and also a two-time NASCAR championship car owner....
     - power boats (1998)
  • Frank Kurtis
    Frank Kurtis

    Frank Kurtis was an American racing car designer. He designed and built Midget car racing, quarter-midgets, sports cars, sprint car racing, American Championship Car Racing, and Formula 1 cars....
     - at-large (1999)
  • Eddie Lawson
    Eddie Lawson

    Eddie Lawson is a former four-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions. His penchant for consistently finishing in the points earned him the nickname "Steady Eddie"....
     - motorcycles (2002)
  • Joe Leonard
    Joe Leonard

    Joe Leonard , is a retired American motorcycle racer and racecar driver.Leonard won the first American Motorcyclist Association Grand National Championship Series in 1954 and won it again in 1956 and 1957....
     - motorcycles (1991)
  • Tony LeVier
    Tony LeVier

    Anthony W. "Tony" LeVier was an air racer and test pilot for the Lockheed Corporation from the 1940s to the 1970s....
     - air racing (2001)
  • Bernie Little
    Bernie Little

    Bernie Little was the most successful owner in Unlimited Hydroplane racing history. His Miss Budweiser team won 134 of the 354 hydroplane races they entered....
     - power boats (1994)
  • Frank Lockhart
    Frank Lockhart

    Frank Lockhart was an United States automobile auto racing driver, and Indianapolis 500 winner, and considered a Legend in the sport by many historians....
     - historic (1999)
  • Fred Lorenzen
    Fred Lorenzen

    Fred Lorenzen , is a former NASCAR driver. He first caught the car bug young, and had built his first car at the age of 13. After graduating from high school, he began racing modifieds and late models, and made his NASCAR debut in 1956 at Langhorne Speedway, finishing 26th after suffering a broken fuel pump, winning $25....
     - stock cars (2001)
  • Dick Mann
    Dick Mann

    Dick Mann is an United States motorcycle sport born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a two-time American Motorcycle Association Grand National champion....
     - motorcycles (1993)
  • Nigel Mansell
    Nigel Mansell

    Nigel Ernest James Mansell Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom racing driver from England who won both the Formula One World Championship and Champ Car ....
     - open wheel (2006)
  • Paul Mantz
    Paul Mantz

    Albert Paul Mantz was a noted air racing pilot, movie stunt pilot and consultant from the late 1930s until his death in the mid-1960s. He gained fame on two stages: Hollywood and in air races....
     - air racing (2002)
  • Bart Markel - motorcycles (1999)
  • Rex Mays - historic (1995)
  • Tom McEwen - drag racing (2001)
  • Jim McGee - historic (2007)
  • Hershel McGriff
    Hershel McGriff

    Hershel McGriff won four races during his brief career in the NASCAR Grand National series, and later in the NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series....
     - stock cars (2006)
  • Bruce McLaren
    Bruce McLaren

    Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor.His name lives on in McLaren which has been one of the most successful in Formula One championship history, with McLaren cars and drivers winning a total of 20 world championships....
     - sports cars (1995)
  • Rick Mears
    Rick Mears

    Rick Ravon Mears is a retired United States race car driver. He is the third of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500 four times , and the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six ....
     - open wheel (1998)
  • Leo Mehl - historic (2007)
  • Louis Meyer
    Louis Meyer

    Louis Meyer July 21 1904 - October 7 1995) was an United States International Motorsports Hall of Fame race car driver best known as the first three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500....
     - historic (1993)
  • Ken Miles
    Ken Miles

    Ken Miles was a sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his career in the USA and with American teams on the international scene....
     - sports cars (2001)
  • Harry A. Miller - historic (1999)
  • Tommy Milton
    Tommy Milton

    Tommy Milton was an United States race car driver best known as the first two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500.Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Milton began his career in racing in 1914, competing on dirt tracks in the Midwestern United States....
     - historic (1998)
  • Ralph Moody
    Ralph Moody

    Ralph Moody was a NASCAR early driver, but became most famous as team co-owner of Holman Moody....
     - at-large (2005)
  • Shirley Muldowney
    Shirley Muldowney

    Shirley Muldowney , the "First Lady of Drag racing" was the first woman to receive a licence to drive a top fuel dragster by the NHRA. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980 and 1982....
     - drag racing (1990)
  • Bill Muncey
    Bill Muncey

    William Edward "Bill" Muncey was an United States hydroplane racing legend from La Mesa, California. He won 62 races, the most races in the history of the sport....
     - power boats (1989 - inaugural inductee)
  • James Anthony Murphy
    James Anthony Murphy

    James Anthony Murphy was a Auto racing who was the American Championship Car Racing in 1922 and 1924....
     - historic (1998)
  • Ron Musson - power boats (1993)
  • Don Nicholson
    Don Nicholson

    Don Nicholson was an American drag racing from Georgia . He raced in the 1960s and '70s when there were few national events. The National Hot Rod Association estimates that he won 90 percent of his match races....
     - drag racing (1998)
  • Gary Nixon
    Gary Nixon

    Gary Nixon is an American motorcycle racer who most notably won the American Motorcyclist Association Grand National Championship in 1967 and 1968....
     - motorcycles (2003)
  • Bob Nordskog - power boats (1997)
  • Fred Offenhauser
    Fred Offenhauser

    Fred Offenhauser , was an automotive engineer and mechanic who designed the Offenhauser racing engine, nicknamed the "Offy", which dominated competition in the Indianapolis 500 race for decades....
     - at-large (2002)
  • Barney Oldfield
    Barney Oldfield

    Berna Eli "Barney" Oldfield was an automobile racer and pioneer. He was born on a farm on the outskirts of Wauseon, Ohio. He was the first man to drive a car at 60 miles per hour on an oval....
     - at-large (1989 - inaugural inductee)
  • Danny Ongais
    Danny Ongais

    Danny Ongais is a former racecar driver from the United States.He is the only native Hawaiian to compete at the Indianapolis 500. A motorcycle, sports car, Formula One, and drag racing competitor, in 1963 and 1964 Ongais won the American Hot Rod Association AA Gas Dragster Championship and in 1965 he added the National Hot Rod Association...
     - drag racing (2000)
  • Wally Parks
    Wally Parks

    Wallace Gordon Parks was instrumental in establishing drag racing as a legitimate amateur and professional motorsport. He was the Founder, President, and the Chairman of the Board of the National Hot Rod Association, or better known by the acronym NHRA....
     - drag racing (1993)
  • Benny Parsons
    Benny Parsons

    Benjamin Stewart Parsons was an United States NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst on TBS , ESPN, NBC Sports and Turner Network Television....
     - stock cars (2005)
  • Johnnie Parsons
    Johnnie Parsons

    Johnnie Parsons was an American race car driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1950.Parsons had the dubious distinction of being the only Indianapolis 500 winner to have his name misspelled on the Borg-Warner Trophy....
     - historic (2004)
  • David Pearson
    David Pearson

    David Gene Pearson is a former United States NASCAR racecar champion.Known as the "Silver Fox", he debuted on the NASCAR racing circuit in 1960 and earned NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors that same season....
     - stock cars (1993)
  • Roger Penske
    Roger Penske

    Roger Penske is the owner of the auto racing team Penske Racing, the Penske Corporation, and other automotive related businesses.He also is one of the corporate directors at General Electric and was chairman of Super Bowl XL in Detroit, Michigan....
     - at-large (1995)
  • Joe Petrali - motorcycles (1992)
  • Lee Petty
    Lee Petty

    Lee Arnold Petty was an American stock car driver in the 1950s and 60s. He was one of the pioneers of NASCAR, and one of its first superstars....
     - stock cars (1996)
  • Richard Petty
    Richard Petty

    Richard Lee Petty is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the Winston Cup Series. "The King", as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the Nascar Championship seven times , winning a record 200 races during his career, winning the Daytona 500 a record seven times, and winning a record 27 rac...
     - stock cars (1989 - inaugural inductee)*
  • Don Prudhomme
    Don Prudhomme

    Don 'The Snake' Prudhomme, is an American drag racer, who won the NHRA funny car championship four times in a thirty-five-year career. He was the first funny car driver to exceed 250 mph....
     - drag racing (1991)
  • Bobby Rahal
    Bobby Rahal

    Robert "Bobby" Woodward Rahal is an United States auto racing team owner and former driver, spending most of his driving career in the Champ Car open-wheel series, winning three championships there....
     - open wheel (2004)
  • Wayne Rainey
    Wayne Rainey

    Wayne Wesley Rainey, born in Downey, California, United States, is an United States former Grand Prix motorcycle racing motorcycle road racing....
     - motorcycles (2008)
  • Jim Rathmann
    Jim Rathmann

    Jim Rathmann is a former United States race car driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1960.He drove in the American Automobile Association and United States Automobile Club Championship Car series in the 1949-1950 and 1952-1963 seasons with 42 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 in each of those seasons....
     - open wheel (2007)
  • Brian Redman
    Brian Redman

    Brian Herman Thomas Redman is a United Kingdom former racing driver from England.He was very successful in sportscar racing and the World Sportscar Championship, winning the 1970 Targa Florio with a Porsche 908 and the 12 Hours of Sebring twice, in 1975 with a BMW E9 and in 1978 with a Porsche 935....
     - sports cars (2002)
  • Carroll Resweber - motorcycles (1998)
  • Peter Revson
    Peter Revson

    Peter Jeffrey Revlon was a racecar driver from United States who had successes in Formula One and the Indianapolis 500....
     - sports cars (1996)
  • Eddie Rickenbacker
    Eddie Rickenbacker

    Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was an United States fighter aircraft Flying ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation....
     - historic (1994)
  • Fireball Roberts
    Fireball Roberts

    Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, Jr. was one of the pioneering auto racing drivers of NASCAR....
     - stock cars (1995)
  • Kenny Roberts
    Kenny Roberts

    Kenneth Leroy Roberts born in Modesto, California is a former motorcycle racer and the first United States to win the List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions....
     - motorcycles (1990)
  • Mauri Rose
    Mauri Rose

    Mauri Rose was an United States racecar driver.He started from the pole position driving a Maserati in the 1941 Indianapolis 500, but spark plug problems put him out of the race after sixty laps....
     - historic (1996)
  • Johnny Rutherford
    Johnny Rutherford

    John Sherman Rutherford, III is a retired United States of America automobile racer.The Texas-raised "Lonestar J.R." is one of eight drivers to win the prestigious Indianapolis 500 mile race at least three times: in 1974 Indianapolis 500, 1976 Indianapolis 500, and 1980 Indianapolis 500....
     - open wheel (1996)
  • Troy Ruttman
    Troy Ruttman

    Troy Ruttman was an American race car driver. He was the older brother of NASCAR driver Joe Ruttman.Ruttman won the Indianapolis 500 in 1952 Indianapolis 500, and , he is the youngest winner of the race....
     - historic (2005)
  • Bill Seebold - power boats (1999)
  • Wilbur Shaw
    Wilbur Shaw

    Warren Wilbur Shaw was a noted United States racing driver and president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1945 until his death....
     - historic (1991)
  • Carroll Shelby
    Carroll Shelby

    Carroll Hall Shelby, is an American racing and automotive designer and former racing driver....
     - sports cars (1992)
  • Lyle Shelton - air racing (1999)
  • Bill Simpson
    Bill Simpson

    Bill Simpson , is a retired American racecar driver, but is best known as a pioneer in the racing safety business with his company Simpson Performance Products....
     - at-large (2003)
  • Betty Skelton - at-large (2008)
  • Mira Slovak - power boats (2001)
  • Malcolm Smith
    Malcolm Smith (motorcyclist)

    Malcolm Smith is an United States off-road racing legend.Smith's first raced in 1956 atop a 1949 Matchless 500cc motorcycle. Later, he was associated with Husqvarna Motorcycles motorcycles....
     - motorcycles (1996)
  • Tom Sneva
    Tom Sneva

    Tom Sneva is a former American Championship Car Racing driver that was named to the prestigious Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2005. Sneva is best remembered for winning the 1983 Indianapolis 500....
     - open wheel (2005)
  • Freddie Spencer
    Freddie Spencer

    Freddie Spencer , known by the nickname Fast Freddie, is an United States former World Champion Motorcycle sport. Spencer is regarded as one of the greatest motorcycle racers of the early 1980s....
     - motorcycles (2001)
  • Jay Springsteen
    Jay Springsteen

    Jay Springsteen is a professional motorcycle Motorcycle sport racer.He began his professional racing career in 1973 by winning the American Motorcyclist Association Rookie of the Year award....
     - motorcycles (2005)
  • Mickey Thompson
    Mickey Thompson

    Marion Lee "Mickey" Thompson was an United States off-road racing legend. He won many championships as a racer, and later formed sanctioning bodies SCORE International and Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group ....
     - at-large (1990)
  • Curtis Turner
    Curtis Turner

    Curtis Turner was an early NASCAR driver. In addition to his success in racing, he made a fortune, lost it, and remade it buying and selling timberlands....
     - stock cars (2006)
  • Roscoe Turner
    Roscoe Turner

    Roscoe Turner was an aviator who was a three time winner of the Thompson Trophy....
     - air racing (1991)
  • Bobby Unser
    Bobby Unser

    Robert William "Bobby" Unser is a retired United States automobile racer. He is the brother of Al Unser and Jerry Unser, the father of Robby Unser, and the uncle of Al Unser, Jr....
     - open wheel (1994)
  • Al Unser
    Al Unser

    Alfred Unser is a former United States of America automobile racing driver, the younger brother of Bobby Unser and father of Al Unser, Jr.. He is the second of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500 four times, the fourth of five to have won the race in consecutive years, and is the only person to have both a sibling and child as fello...
     - open wheel (1991)
  • Don Vesco - motorcycles (2004)
  • Bill Vukovich
    Bill Vukovich

    Bill Vukovich was an United States of America motorsport racing driver. He was known variously as "Vuky" and "The Mad Russian" for his intense driving style, as well as the "Silent Serb" for his cool demeanor....
     - open wheel (1992)
  • Darrell Waltrip
    Darrell Waltrip

    Darrell Lee Waltrip is a three-time former NASCAR Championship champion, the 1989 Daytona 500 winner, current television race commentator with Fox Broadcasting Company and columnist at Foxsports.com....
     - stock cars (2003)
  • Jeff Ward
    Jeff Ward (motocross)

    Jeff Ward is the first motocross rider in history to win every major American Motorcyclist Association motocross List of AMA Motocross Champions....
     - motorcycles (2006)
  • Rodger Ward
    Rodger Ward

    Rodger Ward was an United States racecar driver who won the 1959 and 1962 Indianapolis 500. He also was the 1959 and 1962 USAC Championship Car champion....
     - open wheel (1995)
  • A.J. Watson - at-large (1996)
  • Steve Wittman
    Steve Wittman

    Sylvester Joseph "Steve" Wittman was an air-racer and aircraft designer and builder. He gained his pilot's license in 1924 and built his first aircraft later that same year, powered by a motorcycle engine....
     - air racing (1998)
  • Wood Brothers - (2000)
  • Gar Wood - power boats (1990)
  • Cale Yarborough
    Cale Yarborough

    William Caleb Yarborough , is a businessman and former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner. He is the one of only two drivers in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships, before Jimmie Johnson in 2006-2008....
     - stock cars (1994)
  • Smokey Yunick
    Smokey Yunick

    Henry "Smokey" Yunick was a mechanic and car designer associated with auto racing in the United States.Yunick was deeply involved in the early years of the NASCAR, and he is probably most associated with that racing genre....
     - at-large (2000)


    • Person inducted under special rule. Usually, an inductee must have been retired for at least three years in their field. However, inductees may also have been engaged at the top level of his or her area of motorsports for at least 20 years, and if that is the case, the retirement rule is waived.


    See also

    • International Motorsports Hall of Fame
      International Motorsports Hall of Fame

      The International Motorsports Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame dedicated to enshrining those who have contributed the most to auto racing either as a driver, owner, developer or engineer....
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