''I've had five or six major roll-overs and walked away from every one,'' he said.
''It's the wing that saves you. It takes the impact out, like a big sponge, really.''
Racing recently in Dunedin, he was pushed back on to his wheels after a four-sprint-car pile-up and was able to continue the heat. He went on to place second in the 25-lap feature race later that night. That's the beauty of sprint cars, Scott, the leading War of the Wings series driver, said.
''They are made to fall to bits in the right places. A good half an hour and you can put them back together.''
The South Island Sprintcar Champion for the fourth consecutive season, Scott is hoping to stay out of harm's way in the War of the Wings final round at Central Motor Speedway in Cromwell on Good Friday.
''My strategy is to keep my nose clean through the heats to make sure I get to start in the feature race, and then go hard,'' he said.
After nine meetings on seven South Island speedway tracks, the final has come down to 95 points separating Central Motor Speedway-contracted driver and last year's War of the Wings runner-up Scott from his rival, defending titleholder Ray Baughan, of Christchurch.
With 100 points for the all-deciding 25-lap feature race winner, mathematically it is possible for Baughan to hold on to the title but for that to happen, Scott would have to be a non-starter. Baughan knows only too well anything can happen in speedway. Last year, while lying well placed in the sixth-round feature race in Cromwell, he effectively demolished his sprint car.
''That crash and a couple of recent DNFs took me from leading to 95 points adrift of Jason,'' Baughan said.
''I really like Jason but there's no-one else I'd rather beat. So you can take it from me, spectators on Good Friday are going to see some hard-out racing from sprint car 95c.''
Central Motors Speedway media liaison Ross Lindsay described sprint car racing as ''very much old-school, where driver skill and courage is the difference between winning and losing''.
''With no mirrors to check out who might be up their exhaust pipe or about to climb on a rear wheel, instinct is another important attribute, along with trusting less experienced drivers not to make a mistake that could take out a leading driver.''
Even on Cromwell's relatively small 500m oval, the crowd can expect these huge horsepower, 3.5m-long methanol-fuelled open-wheelers to achieve speeds of more than 160kmh. The average power output for a sprint car is around 625kW, which is roughly 202kW more than the much bigger and heavier ''tin top'' V8 SuperTourers. Like SuperTourers, sprint cars are highly sophisticated, with United States-imported purpose-built V8 race motors, space-frame chassis and running gear, including tyres.
''Power to weight, [sprint cars] are still the most powerful car in the world,'' Scott said.
For the War of the Wings on Good Friday and also Sunday's Easter Championships, racing begins at 4pm. Support classes include super saloons, saloons, six-shooters, productions, stock cars, youth and mini-stocks and motorcycle powered TQ midgets coming from Christchurch for the Sunday meeting.
