NASCAR racing is about competition. The NASCAR Hall of Fame is about humanity — common people achieving uncommon success and in the process revealing a lot about themselves and the successes and failures they’ve gone through over their careers
Stick around NASCAR long enough, as I have, and you realize the role life and death play in the sport.
Those of us in the business have all seen drivers die or get badly injured doing what we love and we’ve seen the best and worst of what racers go through. You maybe don’t see it as much in the races every week, but you sure see it in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.