29th-Jun-20, 07:18 PM
That's a really nice article. Wendell Scott's story is still resonating today.
Scott is definitely one of my motorsport heroes - for many different reasons. Contemporaries of his always claimed that with the best equipment, Wendell Scott would have been challenging for many more top flight wins - and even championships. Here's some video from quite an old documentary about Scott's life and footage of him in his later years...
Sports journalist and amateur racer Brian Donovan wrote a magnificent biography of Scott called Hard Driving. It is a shocking and inspirational book and well worth tracking down.
Wendell Scott also features in another classic book about Nascar - Jerry Bledsoe's The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book written during the 1972 Nascar season and published in 1975. I think the title gets it right - it probably is the best book ever about stock car racing.
A couple of Scott's cars have been released as slot cars - Revell/Monogram producing his '67 Ford Fairlane and Carrera his 1969 Ford Torino Talladega. And I've seen quite a few reliveried Galaxies and various scratchbuilt Fords, plus the David Ragan's tribute car from Martinsville 2014 - just after Wendell Scott had been inducted in the Nascar Hall of Fame.
That same weekend, Bubba Wallace ran the tribute livery in the truck race at Martinsville - taking the #34 to Victory Lane...
Scott is definitely one of my motorsport heroes - for many different reasons. Contemporaries of his always claimed that with the best equipment, Wendell Scott would have been challenging for many more top flight wins - and even championships. Here's some video from quite an old documentary about Scott's life and footage of him in his later years...
Sports journalist and amateur racer Brian Donovan wrote a magnificent biography of Scott called Hard Driving. It is a shocking and inspirational book and well worth tracking down.
Wendell Scott also features in another classic book about Nascar - Jerry Bledsoe's The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book written during the 1972 Nascar season and published in 1975. I think the title gets it right - it probably is the best book ever about stock car racing.
A couple of Scott's cars have been released as slot cars - Revell/Monogram producing his '67 Ford Fairlane and Carrera his 1969 Ford Torino Talladega. And I've seen quite a few reliveried Galaxies and various scratchbuilt Fords, plus the David Ragan's tribute car from Martinsville 2014 - just after Wendell Scott had been inducted in the Nascar Hall of Fame.
That same weekend, Bubba Wallace ran the tribute livery in the truck race at Martinsville - taking the #34 to Victory Lane...
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