CHARLOTTE — Two-time Sprint Cup champion Terry Labonte joined other auto racing greats in the NASCAR Hall of Fame Saturday afternoon.

In a ceremony postponed Friday by a winter storm, Labonte, Modified champion Jerry Cook and pioneer track builder Bruton Smith were inducted along with two deceased drivers — Curtis Turner and Bobby Isaac.

Known as the Iceman for his cool and calm approach to racing, Labonte rolled out of Texas to become one of the most dependable drivers in NASCAR history. He won his first Sprint Cup title for Louisiana team owner Billy Hagan in 1984, then returned to the top of the sport with Hendrick Motorsports in 1996.

Labonte scored 22 Sprint Cup victories and finished in the top 10 361 times, 10th in NASCAR history.

Labonte recalled making his Cup debut for Hagan’s team at perhaps NASCAR’s toughest track — Darlington Raceway — in the Southern 500 in 1978. Labonte stunned the crowd by finishing fourth despite never having run a race even half as long as the 500-miler. He finished seventh at Richmond and ninth at Martinsville in his next two outings.

Thought by many to be near the end of his career, Labonte joined team owner Rick Hendrick in 1994 and outran teammate and future Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon to win the championship in 1996.

“When I was looking for somebody, I looked at the stats,” Hendrick said. “Terry was good on road courses, speedways, everywhere. What he brought to our company was real stability. He battled Jeff Gordon for the championship when Jeff Gordon was in his prime and beat him.”

Smith built Charlotte Motor Speedway and later expanded it into one of racing’s showcase facilities. He put together a strong portfolio of tracks, including speedways in Atlanta, Sonoma, Calif. and Fort Worth, Texas, eventually taking his operations public as Speedway Motorsports, Inc.

As part of a long and rambling acceptance speech, the 88-year-old Smith recalled buying a race car for $700 at the age of 17 and racing it for a while before agreeing to move on to other pursuits after his mother prayed he would quit driving. Shortly thereafter, he began a career as a race promoter and eventually became one of the most successful in that business.

Cook won six NASCAR Modified championships in the 1970s and totaled 342 Modified victories before retiring in 1982. He joined nine-time Modified champ Richie Evans, also from Rome, N.Y., in the hall.

“This is the greatest honor in NASCAR, and to have a place in our sport’s house is the ultimate achievement,” Cook said.

Turner, who died in a plane crash in 1970, was a star of NASCAR’s pioneer era. An expert driver on dirt tracks, he typically either won or wrecked trying. There was little middle ground for the Virginian.

Turner won 17 Cup races, but his go-for-broke style gave his career an inconsistent coloring and denied him a series championship.

“He went full speed ahead into his dreams,” said Turner’s daughter, Margaret Sue Turner Wright, in accepting the honor for her father.

Isaac won the Cup title in 1970, the peak moment of a career that produced 37 victories in NASCAR’s top series. His wife and son represented Isaac at the ceremony.

A short-track star from Hickory, N.C., Isaac got his big break in 1968 when he joined team owner Nord Krauskopf and crew chief Harry Hyde. Isaac drove the team’s Dodges to 36 wins in five years. He and Hyde also set stock-car speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Isaac, 45, died of a heart attack in 1977.

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