Born January 1, 1971 Scott Riggs is from Durham County, North Carolina. Riggs started entering competitions at the age of fourteen in the American Motorcycle Association. For two years, he dominated the victory lane in North Carolina. However, he started to transcend to four wheels instead. When he hit 17, he decided to race the mini stock division. He raced in the NASCAR mini stock division and won twelve races in his first three seasons. Throughout all this transition, Riggs father, Russell Riggs was by his side the whole time. Russell goes to every race and has not missed one as of yet. Riggs counts his father as an equation while he is on the track or off the track and looks toward him as a mentor.



In 1990, Riggs competed in the NASCAR Late Model Stock Car Division and was voted most improved driver at Orange County Speedway in 1992. He went on to compete in the NASCAR Late Model Stock Car again in 1994 and managed to be named the track champion at the Southern National Speedway with 19 wins.

After playing the smaller races for the next couple of years, Riggs made his debut in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 1999 at the Indianapolis Raceway Park. He went on to compete at Richmond International Raceway and Martinsville Speedway where he finished 23rd and had seven top-tens respectively. In the years 2000 until 2003, Riggs managed to compete in 17 out of 24 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, four NASCAR Late Model Stock Car Division events with one win and two poles, competed full time in the Busch Series in both 2002 and 2003 with two winnings in both years and top 10 finishes. He managed grab the Rookie of the Year title in 2002 and later in the next season, also won the Most Popular Driver award.

The next year, he debuted in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series with one top-five finish and two top-ten finishes. He continued on to compete full time again in 2005 at the NASCAR NEXTEL cup series with two top-five and four top-10 finishes. That was the same year that he was able to bag his first career pole in the spring race at Martinsville. In 2006, Riggs went on to lead a career best 132 laps, posted two poles, one top-five and eight top-10 finishes along with a pole and a win in the NEXTEL Open All-Star event. However, in the same year (2006), Riggs was not able to run the Daytona 500 because of a mechanical error and the lack of owner points from the pervious season held him back as well. He managed to get the 18th spot in the 2006 NEXTEL Cup, which so far has been his highest ranking there and he came in 4th place during the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Riggs is very involved with his family and brings them wherever he goes. He enjoys eating his fathers barbecued chicken and when he is not busy on the track, he takes his family for go karting activities. Although he does not race professionally on the motocross tracks, he still likes to get on his bike once in awhile to keep in touch with his motocross roots. Riggs relates his experience in staying at a motel in 1998 during an All-Pro race as one of his worst hotel experiences with cigarette burns littering the comforter and the sheets of the bed. Like a lot of young NASCAR racers, Riggs is a prankster however, that does not mean he does not have his head in the game.