Roy Brydon passed away peacefully on May 26, 2004 at the Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario after a recent illness.

Roy’s interest in automobile racing started as a young boy.  Growing up in Western Canada on Vancouver Island in the 1950’s.   Roy kept a scrapbook filled with pictures and newspaper articles about the exciting stock car races held at nearby Western Speedway in Victoria.  In time Roy became a driver at that track and eventually manager of the Western Speedway facility. He contributed to the careers of Western Speedway’s star drivers Billy Foster, the first Canadian to qualify for the Indy 500 in 1965, and Roy Smith who raced in the Daytona 500 in the 1970’s.

Once Roy moved east to Ontario in the 1980’s he became involved in kart racing with his cousins Grant and Greg Greaves at the legendary Whitby track. This was the start of the Kart Klinic team that gave countless young drivers their start in kart racing.  Roy eventually took the Kart Klinic team into car racing entering cars in the Honda Michelin Challenge Series and sponsoring drivers in TQ Midgets, formula cars and as always karts.

Roy was the driving force behind the OKRA (Ontario Kart Racing Association) in the 1980’s and helped create WKA Canada which was closely associated with OKRA in those days.  In the 1990’s he became the first ASN Canada FIA National Karting Director.  Roy’s task was to start building karting on a national basis that led to the creation of the strong coast-to-coast karting community we have today.   Roy is the immediate past president of the OKRA and has recently been managing the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame in Toronto.

Roy’s dedication to racing, and especially to the people involved, will be dearly missed by all of us in the racing community.