By Patrick Reynolds

NASCAR recently announced its list of 25 candidates from which to choose the 2013 Hall of Fame class. Rusty Wallace, Wendell Scott, Ray Fox, Ralph Seagraves, and Anne France were added to the twenty names still on the ballot from the 2012 inductees.

Of my list of five who I would have voted into the Hall last year, two went in. Richie Evans and Dale Inman were enshrined during last January’s ceremony. The remaining three stay on my wish list, as do my reasons for choosing them. Two more NASCAR stars are added to make up five honorees I would induct next.

1. Curtis Turner. The “Babe Ruth of stock car racing” was victorious 17 times in NASCAR’s premiere division. Turner was an early star before construction of any stock car superspeedway with most of his wins coming on short tracks. However he did win at Darlington, Rockingham, and the convertible division. Turner sat behind the wheel for noted teams owned by the Wood Brothers, Holman-Moody, Smokey Yunick, and Junior Johnson, and was named as one of NASCAR’s 50 greatest drivers in 1998.
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