page_title: Scott Taylor (racing driver)
section_title: 2000s and 2010s
hierarchical_section_title: Scott Taylor (racing driver) / Racing career / 2000s and 2010s
caption_attribution_description: Scott Taylor's 2WD trophy truck before winning the 2008 Borg Warner world championship race at w:Crandon International Off-Road Raceway.
context_page_description: Scott Taylor is a retired American professional off-road racing driver from Belvidere, Illinois. His off-road racing career began in 1974 with buggies and his career peaked in the premiere two-wheel-drive truck class called Pro2. He retired from driving after the completion of the 2013 Traxxas TORC Series Heavy Metal race at Crandon.
  Taylor won championships during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s in the series that sanctioned off-road racing in the Midwestern United States. He racked up championships in Short-course Off-road Drivers Association, SCORE International, ESPN PRO Series, Championship Off-Road Racing and World Series of Off-Road Racing. 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 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.
context_section_description: Taylor battled Evan Evans for the 2000 Pro-2 championship. In the fourth last round, he started eighth after the top eight trucks were inverted. He rose up to fifth by the end of the final lap and finished second behind Evans. Evans held the points lead going into the third last race. Taylor won the third last round and regained the points lead by three points. The final two races were held on the same day on a wet track. Taylor finished second, three spots ahead of Evans to hold an eight points lead.  Later that day, the water coolant in Taylor's truck poured out the overflow in the second lap and he ran the rest of the race with no coolant. The engine was able to continue without coolant and Taylor finished fifth to win the 2000 CORR Pro-2 championship.
  Miller Electric became a secondary sponsor for Taylor's truck in 2001. 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 ended up winning his third straight championship.
  Jeff Frana took over as Taylor's crew chief in 2002. He continued to use Roush Racing engines and had Mobil 1, BFGoodrich and Ford Motor Company as primary sponsors. Taylor became the first Pro-2 driver to win the Governor's Cup at Crandon in 2002 and he was presented the trophy from Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum. He was the honorary grand marshal for the 2002 world championship weekend parade at Crandon. 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.  After catching and following Evans for two laps, Taylor clipped him and was black flagged. He left the pit box too early and was penalized again which led to him finishing fourth. The final points race happened the next day. Taylor raced to third place by the first corner and kept swapping second with Evans. Taylor finished second and won his record fourth straight Pro 2 championship. The Borg Warner World Championship Manufacture Challenge race (now AMSOIL Cup) took place later that afternoon pitting the two-wheel-drive Pro-2 trucks against the faster 4x4 Pro-4 trucks. The five fastest Pro-2 trucks started 1,000 feet (300 m) ahead of the other thirty competitors and Taylor was fourth by the first turn and he quickly moved up to second place behind Carl Renezeder. The Pro-4 drivers Curt LeDuc and Johnny Greaves caught Taylor and Renezeder. Taylor passed Renezeder and LeDuc slowed putting Taylor three seconds ahead of Greaves. Greaves blew a tire and Taylor won the race becoming the first two-wheel-drive winner.
  Taylor won his fifth straight CORR Pro-2 championship in 2003 after winning six of thirteen CORR races; he finished in the top five in each event. After winning the Pro Precision Gear Driver of the Year, Taylor was nominated by the American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association All-American Team in the At Large category. At that point, he was the winningest driver in CORR history having 34 wins in 93 starts.
  In 2004, Taylor was leading Walker Evan's son Evan Evans by 18 points going into the final two-race weekend.  The track was wet and slippery on the Saturday race and Taylor finished fourth, two spots ahead of Evans.  In the final round, Taylor finished in second place, one spot in front of Evans, to win his sixth consecutive Pro-2 CORR title.
  Taylor started off 2005 by pulling quickly into third place at I-96 Speedway; he raced up to second and passed Kevin Probst's truck for the win near the end of the final lap. 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.  Taylor shut the engine off and mechanical DNF ended his chance at winning the championship. On the Sunday race, Taylor led for the first eleven laps before falling back after blowing a rear tire on lap 10 then later blew the other rear tire; he had to drive slower and finished third. Taylor finish
caption: Taylor's 2008 World Championship winning truck
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