Vale Steve Frazer
Auto Action is saddened to report the passing last week, after a sudden heart-attack, of former touring car entrepreneur Steve Frazer.
Frazer was best known as Peter Brock’s manager, and the MD of Advantage International, the marketing company which was originally a partnership with musical entrepreneur Glenn Wheatley (Wheatley Sport) in the 1980s before morphing into Advantage International. It came to Brock’s rescue by creating Advantage Racing late in 1991.
It acquired the two Mobil-backed Commodores that Brock and Larry Perkins had campaigned that year under a Perkins Mobil team banner, and set up an Advantage Racing team base in North Melbourne.
In the end, the team was wound up when Brock, and the Mobil deal, transferred to the Holden Race Team at the end of 1993.
Frazer’s motorsport promotions also included event promotion – such as the 1995 Peter Brock Classic at Calder and 2002 Queensland 500 Supercars events, several Australian Safaris and Round Australia rallies, and three World Superbike events. He also put Brock’s Super Tourer Volvo deal together.
AUTO ACTION sends its condolences and best wishes to Frazer’s family and friends.
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