Dave Heaslip

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Dave Heaslip
BornDavid Heaslip
1944
Gananoque, Ontario, Canada
Debut season1960
Modified racing career
Car number84
Championships10
Wins300+

David Heaslip is a retired Canadian dirt modified racing driver. Credited with more than 300 career wins he competed for 50 years against the toughest competition on both the Canadian and American sides of the St. Lawrence River. [1]

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Racing career

Dave Heaslip got his start in motorsports in 1954 when as a 9-year-old he accompanied his father Ken Heaslip to the Edgewood Speedway in Alexandria Bay, New York. The elder Heaslip fielded a car numbered "GO" for his hometown, Gananoque, Ontario. By age 15, Dave was piloting an old Pontiac coupe with the family number at the Kingston Speedway (Ontario). He won his first feature event soon afterwards and added the Watertown Speedway on the New York side of the border as a regular stop. [1]

Heaslip competed successfully at the race venues of southeastern Canada, including Brockville Speedway and Capital City Speedway in Ontario, and in New York at such tracks as the Lebanon Valley Speedway and Outlaw Speedway. [2] [3] Heaslip won three track championships at each Autodrome Edelweiss (Quebec), Cornwall Motor Speedway (Ontario), and Frogtown International Speedway (Hogansburg, New York) and one at Can-Am Speedway in LaFargeville, New York. [4] [5] [6] In 2003, he competed in a BriSCA F-1 for the BriSCA World Finals at Coventry Speedway, England. [1]

Heaslip was inducted into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame in 2007. [1] [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Carey, Cap (July 12, 2007). "Veteran Heaslip thriving". Watertown Daily Times . NY. Retrieved October 16, 2023– via NNY360 Archives.
  2. ↑ "Dave Heaslip-Career Results by Series". The Third Turn. Retrieved October 16, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Norm's car wins". Mercury-Advance . Renfrew ON. June 14, 1972. p. B1. Retrieved October 16, 2023– via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Drivers tested on slippery Frogtown Speedway oval". Massena Observer. NY. August 23, 1988. p. 11. Retrieved October 16, 2023– via NYS Historic Newspapers.
  5. ↑ "Heaslip, Camara race for title". Watertown Daily Times . NY. September 3, 1993. Retrieved October 16, 2023– via NNY360 Archives.
  6. ↑ "Heaslip head Frogtown feature field". Indian Time. Akwesasne NY. July 19, 1996. p. 19. Retrieved October 16, 2023– via NYS Historic Newspapers.
  7. ↑ Hill, John (May 18, 2007). "Dirt opens its doors for nine". The Post-Standard . Syracuse NY. p. 28. Retrieved October 16, 2023– via NewspaperArchive.
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