The NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2024 will be honored in Charlotte, N.C., on January 19, and the event can be excused for having the feel of a Hendrick Motorsports party.
This year’s class features the winningest driver-crew chief tandem in seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson and crew chief Chad Kraus. The two won seven championships together between 2006 and 2016. The Johnson-Knaus pairing finished second in the championship in both 2003 and 2004.
Joining the Hendrick pair will be 10-time race winner Donnie Allison, who was named this year’s NASCAR Pioneer honoree. He’s probably most remembered for his role in arguable NASCAR’s most significant race—the 1979 Daytona 500.
Janet Guthrie, who scored several firsts for women in the sport including being the first woman to start the Daytona 500, is this year’s Landmark Award honoree.
The induction ceremony will be streamed live from the Charlotte (N.C.) Convention Center on the Peacock streaming service beginning at 8 p.m., on Friday, Jan. 19.
Mike Pryson covered auto racing for the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot and MLive Media Group from 1991 until joining Autoweek in 2011. He won several Michigan Associated Press and national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for auto racing coverage and was named the 2000 Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club’s Michigan Motorsports Writer of the Year. A Michigan native, Mike spent three years after college working in southwest Florida before realizing that the land of Disney and endless summer was no match for the challenge of freezing rain, potholes and long, cold winters in the Motor City.
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