Scott finally finds way to victory lane by winning Briggs Legends title at Quincy Grand Prix

QUINCY — The stars aligned for Jeff Scott at this weekend’s Quincy Grand Prix of Karting.

Scott won Saturday’s Briggs Masters feature and the Briggs Legends championship on Sunday, his first two career victories at the event for which he is now the organizer.

“I’ve turned hundreds of laps here,” Scott said. “I raced back in the ‘90s. I’ve led a lot of laps here, so to finally cross that stripe first is a great feeling.”

While Scott had plenty of supporters on hand to watch him win, he had another fan watching from up above. Bob Scott, Jeff’s father who also served as the Quincy Grand Prix’s former technical director, passed away in February.

“I know he’s up there looking down over me,” Jeff Scott said.

Sunday also marked Jeff and Rachel Scott’s 13th wedding anniversary, giving the Scott family one more reason to celebrate.

“You have to schedule around certain events, and we only have the option to get the park on certain weekends,” Jeff Scott said of the Grand Prix falling on his anniversary weekend. “When I said, ‘This is our weekend,’ (Rachel) was like, ‘That’s our anniversary,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, we’ll celebrate next weekend.’”

Scott outlasted Tony Neilson, Jeff Dolian and Rick Fulks to win the Briggs Masters feature and executed a last-lap pass to finish ahead of Fulks and Keith Scharf in the Briggs Legends championship.

“They really know how to drive,” Scott said of Fulks and Scharf. “They know how to draft. We’re all three very smart racers, so it was basically a chess game back there of, ‘Where do I want to be? Where is my kart better than theirs?’”

That spot where Scott’s kart was better just happened to be the final corner.

“I knew that I had to hit my marks and have that extra little kick of speed to come off the corner and get to the stripe first,” Scott said.

Scott did just that, making for a weekend he will not soon forget.

“It’s fitting,” Scott said.