Wendell Scott sits in a racecar on Aug. 1, 1969. Scott, the first Black NASCAR driver, also became the first African American elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2014.

It was a bittersweet moment, that Sunday evening in December of 1963 when Virginia native Wendell Scott got his first and only NASCAR Cup Series victory. It was sweet because Scott, a 42-year-old ...

Scott continued to set records and even ranked 11th in the nation in 1965. But it wasn’t until 2021 that NASCAR presented the Scott family with the Jacksonville 200 trophy Wendell won 58 years ago.

Wendell Scott won only one NASCAR Grand National race during his 40-plus year career, the 200-mile event at Jacksonville Speedway in Jacksonville, Florida on December 1, 1963.

Wendell Scott was a trailblazer on the track, racing against the odds and paving the way for positive change in NASCAR. The Danville native was born on Aug. 29, 1921, and was the first Black ...

This week's StoryCorps tells the story of Wendell Scott, who drove during the Jim Crow era and was the first African American to win a race at NASCAR's elite major league level. It's Friday, which ...

The Foundation’s CEO and Wendell Scott’s grandson Warrick Scott Sr. joined Here @ Home to explain more about the uplifting story and its goal to keep the trailblazer’s legacy alive.

Until Bubba Wallace‘s win on October 4, 2021 there had never been another black driver to win a NASCAR race. To this day, Wendell Scott is the only black NASCAR team owner.

Named after Hall of Famer Wendell Scott, who became the first African-American to win a NASCAR Cup Series event in 1963, the award is presented to a driver based on his or her on-track performance ...

Wendell Scott, NASCAR (photo: Worldwide XR) Coming off of a successful in-person NFT auction hosted by Authentik Studios at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, in which the first-ever NFTs of an African ...

Wendell Scott officially broke the NASCAR color barrier in 1961. Fifty years later, the power brokers in the sport stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the courage and contributions of the trailblazer ...

The family of Wendell Scott will receive a trophy commemorating his historic 1963 victory before Saturday night’s race at Daytona International Speedway. Scott is the only Black driver to ...