Wayne Landon

For the past 39 years Wayne has driven on over 50 different tracks in the US and Canada. He has over 300 feature wins to his credit and was Midwestern Champion in 1962, winning track titles at Lansing, Dixie, Owosso, and Grand Rapids Speedrome. He missed the South Bend, Indiana, title that year by a mere two points. He has held track championships at Lansing, 1960, 1961, 1962; Owosso, 1959, 1960, 1962; Dixie, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, Speedrome, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 and TRI STATE AUTO CLUB (TRI Sac) champion driver owner 1981.

In 1957 Wayne started his business, Landon Engineering, which Ruth helped maintain. He built many of his own cars from his first stock to his super modjfied and all his engines. Wayne had #88 until he went to a track once and some else had that number so he blocked out part of the eight and has run #83 ever since.
Wayne started running the Oswego, New York Classic in 1957 and was on the All Time International Classic Point List from 1957 to 1983. He began running there on a regular basis in 1962 to 1970 and only missed two weekends. He became a member of the $1000 Membership Club there by winning a Feature in 1966.
Over the years he has driven super modifieds for Jack Ehman, Steve Gioia, Bill & Jerry Knaff, who has had Bentley Warren chauffeur for them, Jim Ford out of Sandusky, Bob & Larry Van Hutter and Jim Nelson. He enjoyed all his rides but likes to drive his own racer with his own engine up front.

Jerry Landon helped Mace Thomas develop the Mini champs and now Wayne's & Ruth's Jerry has been driving to many feature wins. They have two daughters, Linda and Lorie but the shining stars are their grandchildren, Nick, Chris, and Tracy.
Wayne is always ready to help another racer get started or aid to run better. He built a car and helped a young Gordon Johncock learn to drive at the old Hasting track. Wayne is still running but doesn't know where it will be this year because of the travel time to race super mods. But if there is a race close to home the ole purple #83 will be on the track.
Wayne son Jerry also raced, but was killed in an accident at Kalamazoo Speedway in 1989. Jerry's son carries on the tradition as he currently races Sprint Cars. Wayne passed away on August 4, 2019.