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Ron Farmer (1998)
As a member of the B.C. Custom Car Association since 1951, Ron was deeply involved in building Mission Raceway, in 1965. Ron managed the track until it was sold in 1978 to the District of Mission for an industrial park. Part of that deal gave the club the property for a new motorsport facility and promised government help to prepare the site. But, along the way, the politicians forgot their promises, and Ron Farmer led the battle all the way to the Ombudsman's office of the B.C. provincial government and to the Supreme Court. Today, the new Mission Raceway Park is thriving. And Ron Farmer was still managing it up until the end of '95.
More about this member :: Back to top Bernie Fedderly (1996)
Currently Co-Crew Chief of John Force's Castrol GTX AA fuel funny car, Bernie Fedderly is one of the most respected crew chiefs in drag racing. Fedderly's Canadian career culminated in a top fuel victory by driver Terry Capp and the Canadian "wheeler dealer" team at the 1980 U.S. Nationals. From 1982 to 1992, he was crew chief for owner Larry Minor, winning championships with top fuel driver Gary Beck and funny car driver Ed McCulloch
More about this member :: Back to top Jim and Alice Fergusson (2004)
Jim Fergusson was a successful motorcycle, sports car and sedan racer, and rally driver. He was a team manager, crew chief, mechanic, race and rally organizer, official, sponsor and patron of the sport. He was also a racing car designer and constructor. He was introduced to motorsport by members of the British Empire Motor Club (BEMC) in the year it was founded, 1928. It was like introducing a duck to water. He was a barnstorming fairgrounds motorcycle racer and sometimes motorcycle road racer until he went off to war in 1939. Alice Fergusson was one of Canada's pioneer women racing and rally drivers. She was also a race and rally organizer and editor of BEMC's Small Torque, probably the oldest racing club publication in Canada and now an invaluable source for the history of motorsport in central Canada. On June 25, 1950, Jim was president of theBEMC when the club held a pair of sports car races at Edenvale, the first known sports car races in eastern Canada. Jim finished third in both events; Alice was 15th in the first and official scorer of the second. It was the beginning of many years of racing and rallying for Jim and Alice. They raced at Sebring, Watkins Glen, Harewood and other circuits. They rallied in club events, national events and competed in a variety of hillclimbs, ice races and economy runs. Jim designed a formula junior car; Alice built a Flathead Ford stock car motor that set a track record in 1952 at the CNE Speedway. Their last hurrah came in the early 1970s; they were the only Canadian competitors in the very first (and highly illegal) Cannonball Baker, Sea-to-Shining-Sea, Memorial Trophy Dash that was won by Brock Yates and Dan Gurney. Jim passed away in 1976 and Alice followed in 1997. Separately and together, Jim and Alice Fergusson made a remarkable contribution to the development of Canadian motorsport. Their efforts were purely voluntary. They did what they did for the love of the sport.
More about this member :: Back to top Craig Fisher (1997)
Craig Fisher of Toronto was one of the top sedan drivers in North America in the '60s and early '70s, winning several CASC and SCCA class and overall sedan championships. . A former member of the Canadian Comstock Racing Team, Craig and the late Mark Donohue finished 1-2 in the 12 Hours of Sebring in Roger Penske Trans-Am Camaros in 1968. Craig Fisher became the first Canadian to win a Trans-Am when he teamed with Mark Donohue at Marlboro, Maryland in 1968. He was the first driver to score Trans-Am points for both Chevrolet and Pontiac divisions
More about this member :: Back to top Billy Foster (1993)
Billy Foster, born in Victoria B.C., became the first Canadian to race in the Indy 500 in 1965 when he qualified the Jim Robbins Autotron entered Vollsted Offy 6th in his first attempt at the 500. He finished 17th when his car suffered a broken water manifold on the 85th lap. Billy raced stock cars and super modifieds on the West Coast before starring on the Indycar circuit and on the United States Auto Club (USAC) stock car circuit. He was a cinch to one day win at Indy, but that was not to be. Billy was killed in practice for the Riverside NASCAR race in 1967. In reaction to that NASCAR created the window net rule that is now extended to all closed cars. So, the next time your favourite driver pops down his window net prior to hauling himself out of the car, pause a minute, smile and remember Canada's Billy Foster
More about this member :: Back to top Brad Francis (1995)
For 35 years, Brad Francis has built winning cars for every major form of racing in North America. A self-taught racing engineer, he was for 20 years an integral part of the successes of Performance Engineering of Thornhill, Ont. (Indy, Can-Am, NHRA, short-track stock cars, Trans-Am). He built championship-winning IMSA and Trans-Am cars for General Motors before becoming manager of special projects for Richard Childress' NASCAR Winston Cup Team (Dale Earnhardt) and director of R&D for Bill Davis Racing (Wade Burton, Dave Blaney).
More about this member :: Back to top Scott Fraser (2007)
Scott Fraser started to race at 16 in the Street Stock at Onslow Speedway and soon was runner-up as Rookie of the Year in the Maritime Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
Scott's abilities were honed on local tracks and at 21 he moved to his first international competition, finishing 3rd and 4th when the ACT series came to Nova Scotia in 1991. Scott moved into road racing at the 1992 Moosehead Grand Prix. He adapted quickly and qualified 3rd only to fall victim to a broken gearbox. In his second road race the following year he finished 2nd.
In 1994, at 23, Scott won his first ACT race. Between 1993 and 1998 he dominated the annual Riverside 250, the longest and most prestigious annual stock car race on the MASCAR circuit, with six consecutive wins.
In 1996, Scott experienced perhaps the most successful season ever for any driver in the history of Maritime motorsports. While competing on the MASCAR circuit he scored an impressive 12 of 15 feature wins en route to his first touring series championship. Nine of those wins were consecutive. He led an amazing 58.9% of the total laps run. Scott was so dominant the most commonly asked question in racing circles that year was "Who finished second?"
Scott went on to win many races, build cars and be a dominant force in the Maritimes, a car builder of note and in 1999 the Nova Scotia Male Athlete of the Year. Scott's career was cut short in a snowmobile crash in 2004.
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