Since 2010, the NASCAR Hall of Fame has honored stock car racing's best drivers.  Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty were among the inaugural induction class in 2010.  As a youngster, 2012 inductee Darrell Waltrip would help his father on a Dr Pepper route loading and unloading soft drink cases. The Charlotte area is a major center for the sport  with more than 75 percent of the  drivers and employees based here.