Biography
Walter Boyce is a Canadian rallysport
hero. He is the only Canadian rally driver ever to win an FIA World
Championship Rally. Teamed with co-driver Doug Woods, he decisively won
the 1973 Press-On-Regardless Rally. He is one of the few Canadians to
have been seeded by the FIA and the only North American ever ranked in
the top seed. Additionally, Boyce scored countless Canadian and SCCA
sanctioned event victories during his career, including the Canadian
Winter Rally and the Rally of the Rideau Lakes. His record of five
consecutive Canadian National Championship titles has never been
equaled. Entering his first rally in 1967 with his brother Harry
navigating in his mother's Mercury Comet, Walter took just two years to
hit his stride on the national stage. Between September 1969 and March
of 1971, he entered 21 Canadian National Championship rallies (including
4 FIA listed international events) and recorded 10 wins, 5 places and 6
DNF's. 1969 also included a third overall in the famous
Press-On-Regardless, his favourite event. He even competed in and won
the Cannonball Run - One Lap of America in 1985. Not content to just
compete in rallies, Walter Boyce has written about the sport in a number
of Canadian publications, assisted in event presentation and was the
President of Outaouais Valley Autosport Club.