It's been barely a week since the five newest members of the NASCAR Hall of Fame were elected, and it will be several months still until they or their families receive the blue blazers which are symbolic of the sport's highest honor. The impact of those revised requirements -- which opened the facility's doors to competitors from more contemporary eras -- was felt immediately in the election of Bill Elliott, who under the old rules would have had to wait several more years even though he hadn't raced a full schedule since 2003. For the moment, the attention is rightly placed upon Elliott, Rex White, Fred Lorenzen, Joe Weatherly and Wendell Scott, who will take their rightful places in the Hall of Fame on Jan. 30, 2015. More...