Harmsworth Hero

Bob Hayward was a chicken farmer from the small Ontario community of Embro. He was always fascinated by speed, and racing. Over the years, in his spare time, he raced boats with outboard engines and would go on to build and race the first dragster ever built in Canada. In 1957 he was hired on as a mechanic by the owners of Canada's sole unlimited class hydroplane: Miss Supertest. Within a year, he had graduated to being her driver; and over the next four summers, he would become the greatest driver in Canadian race boat history, capturing the prestigious Harmsworth Trophy (symbolic of world domination in unlimited hydroplane racing) three straight years. He died young, at age 33, behind the wheel of a hydroplane.