Carl Edwards, Ricky Rudd and Ralph Moody have been inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina, as the Class of 2025. Dr. Dean Sicking, a safety innovator, and Mike Harris, a longtime reporter for the Associated Press (AP), were also honored for their contributions to the sport.

In a 13-year Cup Series career, Edwards won 28 races, including the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway and the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. He was a two-time Cup Series championship runner-up. In all, Edwards earned 72 victories across the three national series, including the 2007 Xfinity Series championship. In 2005, he competed full-time in both the Craftsman Truck Series and Xfinity Series.

Rudd, a native of Chesapeake, Virginia, made his first-ever NASCAR start of any kind in the Cup Series, finishing 11th in that 1975 debut at Rockingham, North Carolina, as an 18-year-old and earning his first of 374 career top-10s the following week at Bristol, Tennessee. In 1983, at the age of 24, he became the youngest pole winner in Daytona 500 history.

Rudd would go on to earn 23 career Cup Series victories, including the 1997 Brickyard 400 as an owner-driver and the 1992 International Race of Champions (IROC) title in his first year in the series.

He is also known for his 16 consecutive years (1983-98) with a victory at the sport's highest level, and his string of 788 straight starts that was a record until 2015. His 905 total starts in a career that spanned four decades is second only to the seven-time NASCAR champion Richard Petty (1,185 starts).

Ralph Moody, who passed away in 2004, served under General George Patton in World War II before becoming a full-time driver and winning five times in NASCAR's premier division in 1956-57. In 1957, he partnered with John Holman to form the Holman-Moody Racing company--building cars and creating innovations that produced 96 Cup wins between 1957-72 and winning the 1968-69 Cup Series championships with driver David Pearson.

Sicking was given the Landmark Award for his outstanding contributions to NASCAR, including his work alongside the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in creating the SAFER (Steel And Foam Energy Reduction) barrier.

The long-time racing journalist Harris was awarded the Squier-Hall Award for NASCAR Media Excellence for his four decades of work as the lead motorsports writer for the AP before retiring in 2009.

For more on the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2025 induction ceremony, visit nascar.com.