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Three standout Late Model racers and a former Late Model team owner are among nine inductees in the 2022 Class of the Lake Cumberland Speedway Hall of Fame, the Burnside, Ky., track announced today.

The late "Big Daddy" Paul Feistritzer of Danville, Ky., Delane Browning of East Bernstadt, Ky., Joey Daniel (pictured) of Liberty, Ky., and team owner Larry Yantz, who also has promoted two Kentucky tracks, will be inducted July 2 during the Lake Cumberland's Hall of Fame 40 on the Valvoline Iron-Man Racing Series.

Delane Browning: He drove a Yantz-owned Late Model en route to winning the 1999 Late Model championship at Lake Cumberland, the same year he captured the title at Ponderosa Speedway in Junction City, Ky. He was also the 1998 winner of Richmond (Ky.) Raceway's Paul “Butterball” Wooldridge Memorial.

Joey Daniel: He competed in road hog, bomber and Super Late Model competition throughout central Kentucky in a familiar No. 77 sponsored by Cundiff Steel and Tarter Gate Company. He won Ponderosa's 2000 Fall Classic and the 2004 Late Model title at Bluegrass Speedway in Bardstown, Ky.

Paul Feistritzer: The driver who died in 2008 was a prolific winner over a career of more than 20 years at Kentucky tracks including Lake Cumberland, Ponderosa, Campbellsville's Taylor County Speedway and Glasgow's Barren County Speedway, among others. He was a three-time North-South 100 starter at Florence Speedway and had a top-five finish in Barren County's Kentucky Classic in 1983.

Larry Yantz: Besides Browning, drivers of Yantz's Late Model from 1994-'04 included Johnny Wheeler, Whitney McQueary, Rex Richey and Royce McGowan. The team's biggest victory came with Wheeler with a $10,000 Coca-Cola 100 triumph at Lake Cumberland in 2002. The 73-year-old Nantz promoted Ponderosa from 2005-13 and Richmond from 2015-17 and is still active in surface preparation at Ponderosa.

Other inductees: Former road hog division champion Goble Bertam of Monticello, Ky.; late hometown road hog and modified racer Mike Bradshaw; along with former track officials Jack Girdler, Allen Tilley, Billy Todd and Sherry Todd. — Chris Tilley