Scooter Patrick Road Racer


[h=2]SCCA: Longtime racer Scooter Patrick[/h] Wednesday, 28 September 2016



Longtime racer, Cal Club board member and SCCA national champion Scooter Patrick passed away on Tuesday.
Patrick began his racing career in 1956, going from an owner of an independent Porsche shop in Redondo Beach, California, to driving with Road Race Training Association. A year later, he joined SCCA and Cal
Club and soon was racing a Porsche Speedster in SCCA races. With the "PAM Special," a modified Porsche 550 that he converted to a tube frame using the 4-cam, Patrick won two Pacific Coast Championships. He made hundreds of race starts for Otto Zipper Racing from 1963-72.
He earned SCCA national championships in 1966 and 1967 and drove a rare 908 "Long Tail" Porsche at Le Mans. He campaigned a 906 Porsche in 1967, winning the Doug Revson Trophy in a series of SCCA professional races for under-2 liter Group 7 cars. In 1968 he was one of two drivers selected by Carroll Shelby (along with Davy Jordan) to drive the 2000 GT, earning fourth at the National Runoff and winning the B Sports Racing Championship. A year later, Patrick drove a Surtees TS8 Continental for James Garner's American International Racing. In 1974, he won the last official Can-Am race at Road America in a McLaren M-20.
The accomplished pilot reclaimed his SCCA license for competition in 2012 – 55 years after it was first issued.