Roy Smith roared out of Western Speedway, where he started in 1965 at age 20, to race on the great NASCAR tracks of North America. He enjoyed a tremendous 12-year career driving Super Modified cars throughout the Northwest where he won many major events and championships. He showed his great skills behind the wheel by winning the NASCAR Winston West points championship three years in a row from 1980 to 1982. He placed 22nd in the 1976 and 20th in the 1978 Daytona 500 races and enjoyed a career highlight with his 1982 top ten finish at Daytona. What makes these accomplishments all the more remarkable is that Roy was a true outsider. He was a Canadian driver operating on a budget that was a mere drop in the bucket compared to the famous and high-powered teams of competitors such as Bobby Allison and Ricky Rudd. Smith was named Victoria's male athlete of the year in 1980.

Grant King is recognized as one of the greatest designers and mechanics at the Indianapolis 500. Grant's genius was evident early, as his cars were competitive at the old Langford Speedway. By age 14, he could strip an engine clean, rebuild it and put it back into a winning car before you could say "Mario Andretti." Grant's remarkable local success eventually had him looking to the big leagues and by age 30 he left Victoria and the Western Speedway for Indianapolis - the Mecca of racing. Here he carved a famous career building winning cars for Mario Andretti, Art Pollard, Billy Foster and Al Unser. As one of the few independents, operating in big time auto racing without a major sponsor, Grant King was unique. He was one of the best in Gasoline Alley where few mechanics could say that they also owned their own racecars. Grant could and as owner-designer-mechanic at the Indianapolis 500 he had a fourth-place finish with Steve Kristloff behind the wheel in 1973 and a third-place finish with Tom Sneva driving in 1974.