Wendell Scott’s children bask in the glory of their father’s posthumous induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame during a ceremony Jan. 31 in Charlotte, N.C. They are, from left, Sybil Scott, Wendell Scott Jr., Deborah Davis and Franklin Scott.
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NASCAR inducts Danville’s Wendell Scott into Hall of Fame
Wendell Scott, the Danville native who got his start in auto racing by running moonshine in the 1940s, has been inducted posthumously into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The trailblazing stock car racer was the first African-American to break into the previously all-white world of NASCAR when a part-time steward granted him a NASCAR license at a race in 1953 at the old Richmond Speedway.
