The NorthWest Montana Stock Car Racing Association (NWMSCRA) will induct three individuals and one family into its Hall of Fame Class for 2016 at a ceremony to be held later this year at a site yet to be determined.

They new inductees are Doug Mcdougal, Terry Reed, Bruce Krause and the Lybeck brothers — Daryl, Duane, Dan and Dirk.

This HOF Class is larger than normal because there was a three-way tie in inductee balloting by the HOF voting membership, and after several ballots with no resolution, the membership decided to induct all the candidates.

Inducted last year were John and Sharon Slack, Cory Wolfe and Jim Seymour.

Bert and Jim Seymour become the first father and son to join the HOF. Bert was inducted in 1998.

The nwmscra.com website lists all the HOF inductees along with their biographies.

A total of 34 members have been enshrined in the HOF since 1996.

Mcdougal was the owner of a successful performance parts business — Essential Speed Products. He was generous with his time, expertise and was known to have loaned a part or two and never have them returned.

His stock car racing career started in 1973 at Big Sky Speedway. He helped Dave Landt build a modified car, which also raced from time-to-time in Cranbrook, British Columbia. That year he also took over duties as the track announcer, a position he held until the mid-1980s.

One of the last cars he built was for Bob Keller in the Nostalgia Class. Mcdougal is one of three individuals who have been granted lifetime memberships to the NWMSCRA.

Reed was 19 when he began racing back in 1963. He purchased his first car (C Stock Class) from Wilbur Rohrbach. Two years later, he was racing modifieds and quickly established himself as a top driver. He won the Tri-City Speedway season championship in 1970 and the Big Sky Speedway season championship in 1980.

During his 17-year career he set two track records at Big Sky Speedway and worked diligently as a tech committee advisor for the NWMSCRA to keep the sport affordable and simplify the rules in the modified class.

One of Reed’s fondest memories was taking two-car length leads on the straightaways over Lum Owens, who was sporting a new Z-28 V-8 engine from California in his car. Reed, on the other hand, had a 292-cubic inch 6-cylinder in his modified.

Krause has been involved in all phases of racing, on and off the track since Montana Raceway Park opened in 1991. That involved heading the wrecking crew, which cleans up the mess after a wreck or an inadvertent cruise through the infield, setting up the pits for races, cleaning and setting up the stands, picking up trash and ... of course racing.

His auto racing career started as a pitman for Kelvin Stinger in 1978 at Big Sky Speedway. Krause, along with Dave McManus, then started the Bomber Class in 1981, which was designed to make it a cheaper alternative and get more people involved in racing. He later switched to the Street Stock Class.

Looking back, Krause said he enjoyed racing one of Gary Gudmundson’s Nostalgia cars in a tour of Billings and Belgrade in the late 1980s. Another never to forget moment for Krause was during the Montana 200 in 2000 when he saw Ron Dexter’s Late Model fly over his wrecker after it exited the raceway via a collision with another race car.

For more than three decades, the Lybeck brothers were on the track at either Big Sky Speedway or Montana Raceway Park.

Daryl, the oldest, broke into racing in the mid-1970s with a 1957 Chevy in the C-Stock Class. He managed to win the main event his first night out despite not having the fastest car in the lineup. He served on the board of directors and was president of the NWMSCRA in 1977. He died soon after an auto accident in 1978.

Dan’s first venture into racing was with a claimer car. He later moved on to Street Stock in the mid-1970s. A serious accident ended his career.

Duane, nicknamed Squeek, began with the Super Stock Class in 1976 with his 1955 Chevy and later with a 1979 Nova. He was vocal at club meetings concerning rules and safety issues.

Dirk, the youngest brother, started with a Buick claimer car in 1980 built by Ken Lapp. He moved up in classes through the years. He was on the board of directors and club president in 1989.

Since then he has raced in Street Stock, Legends and Limited Sportsman. He said after 10 years away from racing, “he may not be done yet.”

Dirk also served on the tech crew at Montana Raceway Park in the mid-1990s.