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{{short description|Canadian racing driver}}
{{other people||Roy Smith (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox NASCAR driver|
name           = Roy Smith |
birth_date      = August 6, 1944 |
death_date           = {{death date and age|2004|2|26|1944|8|6}} |
image= RoySmithNASCAR.jpg |
caption        = Roy Smith at the [[1982 Daytona 500]] |
birth_place     = [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]], [[British Columbia]] |
death_cause = |
achievements       = NASCAR [[Winston West Series]] Champion (1980, 1981, 1982 and 1988) |
awards             = [[West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame]] (2002 - Inaugural Class) |
Best_Cup_Pos   =  |
Cup_Wins           =  0<ref name="roysmith">[http://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Roy_Smith ''Roy Smith''] information at Racing Reference</ref>|
Cup_Top_Tens       =  4<ref name="roysmith"/>|
Cup_Poles          =  0<ref name="roysmith"/>|
First_Cup_Race     =  [[1975 Los Angeles Times 500]]|
First_Cup_Win      =  |
Last_Cup_Win       =  |
Last_Cup_Race      =  [[1989 Autoworks 500]]|
Years_In_Cup    = 13|
Total_Cup_Races =  26||
}}

'''Roy Smith''' (August 6, 1944 – February 26, 2004) is a former [[NASCAR]] driver and part of a Victoria-era racing family. His brother Al and his son Gary also had raced.<ref name="roysmith"/>

==Career==
Smith raced the majority of his career in [[NASCAR Camping World West Series|Winston West]], winning four championships (1980–82, 1988), although he made three stand-alone [[NASCAR Sprint Cup Series|Winston Cup]] starts, all in the [[Daytona 500]].

His official NASCAR Sprint Cup Series record shows 26 starts as the other 23 starts were in combination races were Cup/West races.<ref name="roysmith"/>  Until 1998, when NASCAR aligned the Winston West Series with the Busch North Series, all Winston Cup races in California or Arizona (along with the [[1994 Brickyard 400]]) were declared combination races where NASCAR could feature both regular "East Coast" (Cup) drivers racing with the West Coast (West) drivers (a similar move was used in the Busch Grand National and Busch North Series races in the Northeast at the time).  For West Series drivers, they were awarded points for their series compared to other West Series drivers, and also scored an official Cup start, but not charged with one of the five starts for Rookie of the Year in Cup. 

In the Cup Series, He had four finishes in the top ten, including the [[1982 Daytona 500]], and no wins.<ref name="roysmith"/> Smith was inducted in the [[West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame]] in 2002.

==See also==
*[[List of Canadians in NASCAR]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Racing-Reference driver|Roy_Smith}}

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{{Succession box|
 before= [[Bill Schmitt]] |
 title = [[NASCAR K&N Pro Series West|NASCAR Winston West Series champion]] |
 years = 1980–1982 |
 after = [[James Robinson (racer)|Jim Robinson]]
}}
{{Succession box|
 before= [[Chad Little]] |
 title = [[NASCAR K&N Pro Series West|NASCAR Winston West Series champion]] |
 years = 1988 |
 after = [[Bill Schmitt]]
}}
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{{ARCA Menards Series West Champions}}
{{Means Racing}}

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[[Category:Racing drivers from British Columbia]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Victoria, British Columbia]]
[[Category:NASCAR drivers]]
[[Category:Canadian racing drivers]]

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