HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Beginning next year, there will be a new voter to help select members to the NASCAR Hall of Fame -- the reigning champion of the sport's premier series. NASCAR announced Thursday at Homestead-Miami Speedway that the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion will be added to the Hall of Fame selection panel beginning in May of 2014, when proceedings begin to select the members who will be enshrined in the downtown Charlotte, N.C., facility the following year. According to series spokesman Brett Jewkes, NASCAR will become the first sport to have an active competitor on its Hall of Fame voting panel. More...