Wendell Scott
American race car driverWikipedia
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Search complete. 9 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Wendell Scott".
Oct 18, 2026
Show Number 328 10-18-2026
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11:43Perry Allen WoodHOST
I don't know.
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11:44Perry Allen WoodHOST
But anyway, we always have it because that's a celebration of Wendell Scott's first start.
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11:49Perry Allen WoodHOST
And that was at the Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds in Spartanburg in 1961.
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11:55Perry Allen WoodHOST
But Tony is going to come on right after Roddy and talk about a program that NASCAR has called STEM, which is an educational program for young people.
41 MINS LATER
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53:06Perry Allen WoodHOST
He started doing that.
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53:07Perry Allen WoodHOST
Now, when he won at the fairgrounds, and up until then, I don't think it mattered, but I seem to remember him usually driving an orange car.
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53:14Perry Allen WoodHOST
I know he drove an orange number 64 when he won that race at the fairgrounds because I took my cousin's picture standing next to it, although it's black and white, and a Wendell Scott sitting on the hood.
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53:23Perry Allen WoodHOST
But anyway...
Episode 364 with Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, Author of Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me, and Vulnerable and Keen-Eyed Writer of the Personal Made Societal
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32:07Pete RiehlHOST
Th- there's the scene where he's filming, uh, what's, what was the film with the, the race car driver?
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32:11Elizabeth Stordeur PryorGUEST
Oh, Wendell Scott.
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32:12Elizabeth Stordeur PryorGUEST
It's Grease Lightning.
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32:13Elizabeth Stordeur PryorGUEST
Yes.
64. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) with Clarence
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6:14GraceHOST
You know, paranoia.
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6:15GraceHOST
And then I also watched Greased Lightning from 1977, which is about Wendell Scott, the NASCAR driver.
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6:23GraceHOST
It, it's a Richard Pryor movie, and it features performances from Richie Havens, the singer, is in it, and then it's also feature- a song is written by Sounds of Silvestri favorite, Bradford Craig.
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6:35GraceHOST
So it was a fun little thing to see-
Show Number 325 09/27/26
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38:08Perry Allen WoodHOST
I mean...
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38:09Perry Allen WoodHOST
To me, one of the most obvious is Wendell Scott, who in 1961, I believe it was, just had better statistics all over the place than Woody Wilson, who ended up winning the thing.
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38:23Perry Allen WoodHOST
I think that was definitely a.
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38:26Perry Allen WoodHOST
Probably a racial thing.