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[wildman]

http://roadracingwor.../?article=38907

In addition to being the owner of Summit Point, Bill Scott was a two-time US Super Vee champion in 1971 & '72. According to David Kane (in the Jerry Hansen thread), Scott was Tom Milner's original partner and they were the first Royale distributor in the US. After hanging up his helmet, Scott continued to operate his own team, which campaigned the Zakspeed Miller Mustang with Klaus Ludwig in the 1981 IMSA series.

[Gary C]

that's a shame. On one of my visits to Summit Point I may have run into him. Summit Point is a great little track, great fun every time I've been there.

[Rob Semmeling]

Bill Scott...



...and at the Nürburgring in 1969:



R.I.P.

[David M. Kane]

The Klaus Ludwig car was maintained and run out of the Milner-Scott shop at Summit Point. The reason they got deal was because Tom Milner was German born and spoke fluent German. This allowed him to become friends with Michael Kranfuss (sp?). It also allowed him to work well with Klaus. Tom's dad came to the US as a German Embassy employee, I don't know what his offical role was. I was told this by Ltc. Colonel Joakim Vogt, the German Air Attache and my sister-in-law's father.

Early in his Formula V days, Bill went to Germany to race at the Ring. That blew Bill's mind because of it's length and it's complexity.

Bill was extremely bright and an excellent salesman. He got my FF order over Fred Opert (Titan) and Roy Heyser (Lola) just on his energy and overall personality. I felt they wanted me to succeed rather than just taking my money. Both he and Tom were very supportive. I even prepped my Royale initially in their shop in McLean, later they bought the track and moved everything to Summit Point.

For awhile he was married to Jerry Hansen's ex-wife. I think he later remarried.

Edited by David M. Kane, 11 December 2009 - 16:44.

[Dave Ware]

Our condolences to the family. 71 is too young.

When i started getting racing magazines in the early '70s, there were always ads featuring Scott's championship-winning Schmidt's Royale Super Vee.

Here is another good article:

http://www.washingto...t/78837052.html

[Cynic2]

Bill Scott was a Yale graduate and a geologist, as I recall. He was also nearly deaf, from some sort of odd accident. (I knew the details once, but age has hidden them away from me.)

I attended one of Bill's small driving schools at Summit Point in the 1970s, and learned more from him in less time than almost any other instructor I've encountered.

RIP, Bill.

[HDonaldCapps]

My brother got to know Bill Scott in the early Seventies, doing one of his schools as I recall. Dave certainly thought highly of Scott and always regretted that a last-minute pull out by someone we thought was our backer resulted in not getting a car from Scott. I genuinely liked Bill Scott. He was always someone who was not willing to talk, but also worth listening to in the paddock. As Dave Kane points out, their shop was originally over in McLean when it was still a separate, identifiable community.

[thomaskomm]

R.I.P. Bill Scott, I have a Videotape where he destroyed his competitor October 1968 in his white Formula Vee Zink, a day before his mechanics don´t realised that he had his old 6 volt ignition and then in the night before the race he became a new 1300 cc engine with 12 volt ingnition. He had cause the failure a bad qualifying with 13. spot or so.
In the race he stormed away from all the other Euopean Formula Vee masters. In the End he had 13 seconds lead.... If you watch close in the tape you see that Bill Scott drove in the north turn from the Nürburgring to Cementschleife a completely other line than the other drivers.

Best regards

Thomas Komm

[David M. Kane]

He was in another class when it came to FV, he was very dominant.

Edited by David M. Kane, 13 December 2009 - 17:06.