Stock car racing was in Scott Fraser‘s blood, literally. As the son of Maritime stock car racing legend Frank Fraser, he was born into the sport. As a boy he spent weekdays after school at the race shop and weekends with his father and his older brother, Frank Jr., at the race track. Before he was 10, Fraser was winning go-kart races, and at 16 he started a career unrivaled in Maritime motorsports.

Even when Fraser had the fastest car he tried to make it better, either by adjusting his driving style or by fine-tuningor sometimes rebuildinghis race car. It was checkers or wreckers all the wayeither come home first or risk wrecking while tryingeither way the fans were in for a treat.

His stats are extraordinary and many of his records untouched, even now, 10 years after his tragic death at age 33. Racers still gauge their success by his, particularly his 12 of 15 wins en route to the 1996 MASCAR championship, and his six consecutive wins in one of Canada’s most prestigious stock car races – the IWK 250 at Riverside International Speedway near Antigonish. They still respect his memory by battling each other every year to see their name inscribed on the Scott Fraser Memorial Cup as winner of another of Canada’s top stock car racesthe Atlantic Cat 250 at Scotia Speedworld, Fraser’s home track and not far from his home in Shubenacadie.

Fraser put Shubenacadie on the mapall over North America. In the early 2000’s he was turning heads across the United States while racing with the American Speed Association. Television announcers struggled with the pronunciation of his hometown to the point of being comical; it was then he became the “Shubie Shuttle.”

Equally as impressive as his driving talent was Fraser’s prowess as a race car builder. He took just as much pride in seeing a car that he built win, as he did in winning. He earned his living building cars and lived his life racing cars, or anything else on wheels for that matter.

He had a following of all ages that stretched across North America. His charisma, along with his steel blue stare, created an allure that was hard to deny. In 2000 the grassroots Fans of Fraser campaign raised more than $39,000 in four weeks to help him resume a racing career in the U.S. after a wreck.

Fraser raised the bar for racers and for race car buildersif they wanted to compete with him they had no choice but to be better. In 2014, his familiar No. 00 was retired from competition at the Atlantic Cat 250. His accomplishments in, and contribution to, motorsports have been acknowledged posthumously with his induction into the Maritime Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2006, the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2007, and to the Colchester Sports Heritage Hall of Fame in 2010. Fraser is the first stock car racer to be inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame.

Scott passed away on March 20th, 2004.