History of Pitlane Racing:

Bill Royce started his racing career in Go Karts in 1980 in Calgary. In 1985 Calgary's Race City Motor Sport Park opened and Bill entered the very first Enduro race. A career change kept Bill from racing until 1989 where he returned in a Street Stock Division for a few races. Bill soon found out that you can not run at the front of the pack with an inferior race car. In 1991 he bought one of the top street stocks available at that time only to find out, from his Dad's 30 years of experience, it wasn't that good a car. Bill, and Ed Buhler, rebuilt the car from the ground up. He started the 1992 season breaking the Track Record! He went on to win 16 of 24 Races and the 1992 Street Stock Championship.

Bill has always had an open mind to the setup of a race car he spent his time understanding the principles and geometry of a race car from people like Buck Baker, Randy Baker, Chas Howe, Lefthander chassis technical Support and Ted Zerbin. Bills analogy of racing is you can't be a professional learning from an amateur.

In 1997 Bill and his wife Wenda started up the Western Racing League in order to organize and delivery quality stock car events with late models across Western Canada. The series was a great success with some of the best races in Western Canadian History. Unfortunately, because of busy schedules they had to give up the series, as racing doesn't pay well in Canada.

Bill has had success racing in Cascar, Super Trucks, Big Rigs, and Late Models; he is still very active in racing on both sides of the border. Bill wants to try the Extreme Dirt late models in 2006.

In 2004 Bill got word that Calgary based Guyon Racing was in receivership. The opportunity came up to purchase their inventory. So Bill decided this would be a business he understands, so why not.

On Bill and Wenda's personal property there was an old barn with no floors in it, after a big remodeling job, that barn became on January 2005 - Pitlane Racing Depot.

Bill tried to keep working in the lumber business while building awareness for Pitlane Racing Depot. In July 2005 Pitlane became Bills main focus. In January 2006 Pitlane moved into the City of Edmonton to attract more business and keep steady hours. The company is still building awareness in Western Canada and will continue to do so, competing against the box stores for performance parts. Pitlane Racing Depot is a performance parts supplier for all forms of racing and street rods.

The shop is 2000 square feet containing thousands of performance and racing related parts with new orders arriving daily. Bill also builds late model stockcars and is affiliated with fabrication shops in Edmonton Alberta.

The Shop:

Our shop is a modern 2000 square foot facility.

We have thousands of performance and racing related

parts in stock, with new orders arriving daily.

Whatever you need, chances are it's here.

We also carry a wide assortment of catalogues

 in house from all of our suppliers.