The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race

The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race is the first of four segments of Scooby's All Star Laff-a-Lympics. It was later repackaged as the fifth episode of the second season of The Scooby-Doo Show, and the twenty-first episode overall in the series.
== Premise ==
The gang go to watch a Grand Prix race, only to run afoul of a phantom race car driver that makes the other drivers and their cars disappear! Shaggy and Scooby go in disguise as race drivers to foil this mystery.
== Synopsis ==
At the Grand Prix Time Trials, as one of the racers, Carl Conover, speeds by, the Phantom Racer, a ghostly apparition driving a racecar, appears and makes Carl and his racecar disappear in the fog.
Meanwhile, Mystery Inc. read about the Phantom Racer in the newspaper and decide to investigate. They head to the race tracks and talk to the sponsor of the race, Mr. Osbourne. Mr. Osbourne explains that the Phantom Racer's the ghost of a racer who drove off a cliff in the fog a few years ago, and he's seeking vengeance on all race car drivers. He also tells the gang that he can't cancel the race, or else he will be ruined. The gang assures Mr. Osbourne that they will solve the mystery so the race can go on as planned.
All of a sudden, a bedraggled man moaning with terror stumbles in and Mr. Osbourne recognizes him as Carl, the missing driver, apparently having gotten away from the Phantom Racer somehow, but Carl doesn't remember a thing about what happened. The gang drives around and look for clues. They find race car tire tracks, and deduce they had to be from the Phantom Racer's race car. They follow the tracks until they disappear near an old junkyard. Inside the junkyard, they discover a jet plane with the engine machine, which is odd considering the junkyard is specifically for automobiles.
They enter an old house where they meet the inhabitant, an eccentric old caretaker, who tells the gang that the Phantom has recently been haunting the antique car museum and the gang decides to head there.
Upon their arrival, they find the door locked so Shaggy and Scooby climb through a window and unlock the door. Inside, they split up to find the Phantom. Scooby and Shaggy encounter the Phantom and are chased. They end up trapped in an old automobile and pushed down a steep hill by the Phantom. They manage to escape safely and reunite with the gang. The Phantom appears and warns the gang that whoever enters the Grand Prix race will not escape his vengeance, and makes a hasty exit in the racecar.
They rush back to the tracks to try and stop the next victim Ken Rogers, who becomes the Phantom Racer's next victim taken. The gang decide the only way they will catch the Phantom Racer, is to get the Phantom Racer to chase them. They decide to put Scooby and Shaggy in a race car and have them go undercover as drivers, and they drive down the track to see if the Phantom Racer shows up.
The decoy works and the Phantom chases Shaggy and Scooby. The Phantom Racer manages to kidnap Shaggy, leaving the gang with nothing to go on. Scooby tells the rest of the gang that the Phantom Racer took Shaggy to the junkyard. They go to the junkyard and split up to look for Shaggy. Daphne and Fred enter the old house, and they find out that the old man was nowhere to be found. Daphne inadvertently discovers a hidden cavern underneath the watchman's house, as well as the rest of the junkyard, and Scooby, Velma, Fred, and Daphne all check it out. They split up to search for Shaggy. Daphne and Velma find the missing racecars, and it looked like as if someone has tried to repaint the racecars. They also find a book about magic and a book on how to hypnotize.
Velma and Scooby find the Phantom Racecar, as well as the Phantom Racer who's trapping Shaggy behind a brick wall. Velma and Scooby concoct a plan to free Shaggy, but it backfires and the Phantom Racer chases them. Velma and Scooby escape and run back and they freed Shaggy. The entire gang reunites and the Phantom Racer shows up, and he chases the gang in his racecar, with the gang riding two of the missing racecars. A chase ensues, ending with the capture of the Phantom Racer.
The Phantom Racer's revealed to be Ken Rogers, who faked his disappearance as part of his scheme to steal all the racecars, re-paint them, and sell them overseas. He covered up his plan by using the legend of the Phantom Racer. The first clue was the jet plane in the junkyard. Ken Rogers put the jet's engine in his racecar, which's why Ken Roger's car sounded really strange and it was able to be faster than all the other racecars. He also rigged his racecar to pick up the other stolen racecars with magnets, and he would transport them to the underground cavern in the junkyard. He hypnotized the drivers to make them blank out and forget what happened. Ken Rogers faked his kidnapping by using a projected image of the Phantom Racer from a projector in the car. The creepy old watchman in the junkyard was really Ken Rogers in disguise, trying to throw the gang off track.
Later, the gang are at Mr. Osbourne's Grand Prix as Fred has a chat with Mr. Osbourne for a while and Mr. Osbourne starts the race. After the race begins, Shaggy spots a bone floating in mid air in which he calls it a "Phantom bone" while Scooby goes running after it and he immediately takes a few bites and licks out of the bone before the episode ends with Scooby Doo saying his catchphrase.
== Characters ==
Main characters:
* Mystery Inc.
** Scooby-Doo
** Shaggy Rogers
** Fred Jones
** Daphne Blake
** Velma Dinkley
Supporting characters:
* Mr. Osbourne (only appearance)
* Carl Conover (only appearance)
Villains:
* Phantom Racer (only appearance)(Ken Rogers' disguise)
* Ken Rogers (only appearance)
* Junkyard Watchman (only appearance)(Ken Rogers' disguise)
Other characters
* Race Announcer (only appearance)
* Miscellaneous Racers (only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)
* Police Officer (only appearance)
== Locations ==
* Grand Prix Time Trials
** Pit Area
* Ice Cream Parlor
* Junkyard
* Antique Car Museum
== Objects ==
* Bucket
== Vehicles ==
* The Mystery Machine
* Race Cars
* Phantom Racer's Car
* Antique Cars
== Suspects ==
Suspect 	Motive/reason
Junkyard Watchman	Abrasive attitude and unkempt appearance.
=== Culprits ===
Culprit 	Motive/reason
Ken Rogers as the Junkyard Watchman and The Phantom Racer	To steal other driver's cars and sell them overseas.
== Cast ==
Don Messick 	Scooby-DooRacer
Casey Kasem 	Shaggy RogersMr. OsbourneRacer
Frank Welker 	Fred JonesCarl ConoverRacer
Heather North 	Daphne Blake
Pat Stevens 	Velma Dinkley
John Stephenson	Race announcer
Vic Perrin 	Phantom RacerKen RogersJunkyard watchman
== Notes/trivia ==
* The plane fuselage that the gang find in the junkyard somewhat resembles a North American F86 Sabre Fighter jet. (F86's were first introduced to the United States Air Force in 1949)
* This is the second time that Scooby-Doo encounters a haunted floating bone, the first being the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode A Night of Fright Is No Delight. Like in that episode, this is one thing Scooby-Doo is not afraid of.
=== Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches ===
* None known.
=== Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities ===
* It would be nearly impossible for the Phantom to put a plane engine inside a car and to install a device to pick up other cars. The Phantom Racer's car would be way too heavy to travel at high speeds.
* It isn't explained how Ken Rogers was able to stop his car making tire tracks after he made it seem like the Phantom made him disappear.
== In other languages ==
Language	Name 	Meaning
Italian 	Il gran premio	The Grand Prix
== Home media ==
* Scooby-Doo: Il Gran Premio VHS released by Turner Home Entertainment International in 1996.
== Quotes ==
Velma: He could've made a fortune selling those repainted race cars.
Ken Rogers: And I would've succeeded if it hadn't been for you nosy kids.
Shaggy: And Scooby-Doo!.
Scooby: Yeah yeah.
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