Awards
In 2006, a national motorsports media group poll named Ray Evernham as the top NASCAR crew chief of all-time and Inman placed a close second even though he had more first place votes than Evernham. When asked Inman said, "I'm not even sure I should be ranked. I think I was second, and I'm honored at that." He said that the best crew chief that he ever saw was Leonard Wood from the Wood Brothers and Waddell Wilson was good.
His contributions to racing led to him receiving the North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame's first Golden Wrench award on May 25, 2000. In 2008, he was received the Smokey Yunick Award.
On June 14, 2011, he was selected to the 2012 class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
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