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Wendell Scott

Wendell Scott

American race car driverWikipedia

Search complete. 9 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Wendell Scott".

Oct 18, 2026

Perry Allen WoodHOST
11:43
I don't know.
Perry Allen WoodHOST
11:44
But anyway, we always have it because that's a celebration of Wendell Scott's first start.
Perry Allen WoodHOST
11:49
And that was at the Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds in Spartanburg in 1961.
Perry Allen WoodHOST
11:55
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

Perry Allen WoodHOST
53:06
He started doing that.
Perry Allen WoodHOST
53:07
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.
Perry Allen WoodHOST
53:14
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.
Perry Allen WoodHOST
53:23
But anyway...
Pete RiehlHOST
32:07
Th- there's the scene where he's filming, uh, what's, what was the film with the, the race car driver?
Elizabeth Stordeur PryorGUEST
32:11
Oh, Wendell Scott.
Elizabeth Stordeur PryorGUEST
32:12
It's Grease Lightning.
Elizabeth Stordeur PryorGUEST
32:13
Yes.
GraceHOST
6:14
You know, paranoia.
GraceHOST
6:15
And then I also watched Greased Lightning from 1977, which is about Wendell Scott, the NASCAR driver.
GraceHOST
6:23
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.
GraceHOST
6:35
So it was a fun little thing to see-
Perry Allen WoodHOST
38:08
I mean...
Perry Allen WoodHOST
38:09
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.
Perry Allen WoodHOST
38:23
I think that was definitely a.
Perry Allen WoodHOST
38:26
Probably a racial thing.

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