Scott Taylor

Scott Phillip McGraw Taylor (born September 15, 1955) Taylor won six consecutive Pro 2 championships in CORR between 1999 and 2004. He was the first two-wheel-drive truck winner of the Heavy Metal Challenge (now AMSOIL Cup) world championship race at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway in 2002; he repeated the win in 2008.

Taylor raced with Ford Motor Company vehicles for much of his professional career and he joined the "Ford Rough Riders" group near the end of their five-year promotion in 1995. While a professional driver, he used Roush Racing engines (later Roush-Yates engines). In 1981 he won the Montreal Olympic Stadium four-wheel championship and he repeated the win in 1982.

In 1998, Taylor joined most of the SODA drivers by switching sanctioning bodies to CORR. Taylor took second in the 1998 CORR Pro-2 championship to off-road racing rookie and multiple-time motocross champion Ricky Johnson.

In the 1999 CORR Winter Series, Taylor ended the decade by dominating the short series. He dominated the final race and won the series' championship with 253 points - 36 points higher than Dan Vanden Heuvel. Taylor won the third last round and regained the points lead by three points. The CORR Pro-2 championship battle was tight, Taylor was within five points of Evan Evans heading into the final two rounds at Crandon. He continued to use Roush Racing engines and had Mobil 1, BFGoodrich and Ford Motor Company as primary sponsors. In the Saturday race, Taylor pulled out to the lead by the first turn and Walker Evans tangled with Dan Vanden Heuvel giving Taylor a large lead. At that point, he was the winningest driver in CORR history having 34 wins in 93 starts. The track was wet and slippery on the Saturday race and Taylor finished fourth, two spots ahead of Evans. The final two-race weekend happened at the temporary Otay Ranch circuit in Chula Vista, California. On in the second turn of the first lap of the Saturday race, a mechanical problem in the oil pump stopped oil from flowing through the engine. On the Saturday round he had to back off the throttle to avoid a crash and he was eighth in place. He won swept both WSORR events at the series' first weekend at Steele County Fairgrounds. Taylor won the inaugural WSORR Pro-2 championship by winning six of thirteen events. In the ninth CORR event at Sears Point Raceway, he got a new Roush-Yates engine and used it to finish third for his first podium finish of the season. On Sunday he finished third in the Pro 2WD race. CORR folded before the next event at Primm; Taylor had finished eighth in the season points. He started out the season by finishing sixth in the Texas Motor Speedway Pro-2 race. He had new primary sponsorship from Miller Welders and won the Sunday world championship event.

2010s and retirement

Taylor continued racing in TORC in 2010. At the final weekend at Crandon, Taylor had a podium spot on the Saturday race until his truck broke late in the race. On Sunday, he used the land rush start to begin the race in third place by the middle of the first lap - a spot that he maintained throughout the entire race. Highlights of the season including finishing second at the Sunday race at RedBud MX and he took second on the Saturday race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

During the 2012 season, Taylor announced that 2013 would be his final season. He only raced in four TORC weekends that season at Crandon, Bark River, and Chicagoland Speedway and he led the Sunday race of the first Crandon weekend (June) until the final lap. Taylor finished ninth in points after competing in seven of fourteen races. He has two daughters Hannah and Karlie.

Awards Crandon International Off-Road Raceway awarded him the 2012 Jack Flannery Award. He was the second recipient of the award.