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Landis George "Landy" Scott (June 21, 1919 – November 3, 2014) was an American midget car racing champion. He also served as the President of Badger Midget Auto Racing Association from 1951 to 1959. ==Life== Scott was born in the small town of Oconto, Wisconsin in the northwoods of Wisconsin. His father, George, was a lumberjack. His family moved to Milwaukee in southern Wisconsin at the age of five. Landy’s dream of becoming a race driver began as a member of Wally Zale's pit crew. The Japanese had other plans and on December 7, 1941, they attacked of Pearl Harbor. Days later, Landy was a soldier in the United States Army Air Forces. After the World War II, Landy took his military mustering out pay and bought his first Midget race car. Landy, a virtual unknown competed against the nation's greatest racing stars of the 1940s and 1950s. Landy drove his #17 midget racer, powered by an unconventional Studebaker engine, on a shoestring budget to victories on oval dirt tracks everywhere. Over a two-year span (1947–1948) Landy won an incredible twenty feature races, with fourteen second place finishes and twelve thirds. Landy also won 33 heat races and semi-features. All totaled, Landy had 151 top 3 finishes over that two-year period. Landy's career highlight was winning the Badger Midget Auto Racing Association's (BMARA) 1947 Championship and eventually becoming the president of BMARA. Landy's famous #17 Studebaker powered Kurtis Kraft Midget Race Car, beautifully restored by Dave Rumsey (Holland, MI), is now back in the Scott Family where it has won the following awards on the car show circuit: 1st Place, Race Car Division - 2009 Corona Del Mar Coastline Car Classic 3rd Place, Race Car Division - 2010 Del Mar Concours d'Elegance 1st Place, Race Car Division - 2011 Desert Classic Concours d'Elegance (La Quinta, CA) 1st Place, Race Car Division - 2011 Santa Barbara Concours d'Elegance Greatest Racing Heritage Award - 2011 Santa Barbara Concours d'Elegance 3rd Place, People's Choice Award - 2014 Winter Meet, Los Angeles Chapter, Studebaker Drivers Club 1st Place, Special Interest - 40th Annual (2014) La Palma Studebaker Car Show, Studebaker Drivers Club Featured car - 2010 Grand National Roadster Show's "The History of the Race Car", Los Angeles, CA As of October 2014, Landy is proud to announce that his famous #17 Midget is on display at the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend, Indiana. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Landy Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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