Wendell Scott was known for being the first black race car driver to be an independent that was also integrating the sport of start car racing last night I found the movie online for Greased Lightning it was the story of Wendell Scott played by Richard Pryor so yes it did have a bit of a comedy theme to it but it was strongly based in history the follow to the story was that it took almost 56 years for a track over to acknowledge that when they won the race