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Maxima Racing Oil enters 3rd season of support with Canada Heads Up – Shootout Series

February 16, 2022

Maxima Racing Oil joins forces to present the Canada Heads Up – Shootout Series again for 2022. Maxima Racing Oil has had a huge presence at our events for the last 3 years. Canadian Master Distributor RM Racing Lubricants attends our events throughout the summer to provide the Maxima brand products to all of our competitors and fans!

Maxima Racing Oils has been a driving force in helping us grow the series and we are proud to welcome them back for the 2022 season.” – Ian Hill – series Director. “Maxima Racing Oils and Maxima brand products can be found in and on many of our competing vehicles. Maxima’s SAE standard weight fluids to there popular 20w50 and 10w30 style synthetics, blends and mineral oils – as well the SC1, Speed Wax and Bio Cleaner products can be found in most pits at the Canada Heads Up events!”

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Misener Motorsports presents 6.50 index for 2022

February 14, 2022

Jay Misener is not new to the performance industry. Misener Motorsports has been around since 2005, and after 17 years in the performance industry you might say alittle bit rubs off you once in a while!

Misener Motorsports is known for their performance  and race builds out of their Brantford Ontario location. Misener Motorsports also features an in-house chassis dyno. Jay and his team can help your auto needs from daily fixing, performance upgrades or complete building and rebuilding. They are a performance parts dealer in Brantford and on weekend days that end in “Y” Jay can be found testing his Coyote Stock swapped fox body at local drag strips! 

Misener Motorsports has been a long time supporter of local drag racing and we are proud to have him come on board again for 2022, this time supporting a series class – the 6.50 Index. Canada Heads Up presented by Speedwire Systems, Maxima Racing Oil and Nash Competition Engines is heading into our 4th season and we are sure this on will be off the hook!

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VP returns to support Super Street for 2022

February 9, 2022

VP Racing Fuels makes there return as the presenting class sponsor for the highly ranked Super Street Class. VP Racing Fuels has been a staple in the racing fuel business in Ontario for years and 2022 will be no different. VP racing Fuels offers a wide variety of Leaded and Unleaded high octane fuels and Multiple options of Methanol and Flex Fuel (E85 etc.).

“Super Street has long been the Street Car Shootout’s most well attended class. These high horse power hot rods regularly see 2500+hp in 2800lb race cars. Canada Heads Up (CHU) is proud to have VP Racing Fuels return for this their second season with us”, Ian Hill – CHU Director

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Zex Toronto signs on to present PRO10five for 2022

February 4, 2022

ZEX Toronto has been a staple in Ontario, Canada’s Street Car Shootout drag racing world for years. Now they have come on board to present the quickest of the Canada Heads Up- Shootout Series classes – PRO10five!

ZEX Toronto is a family owned and operated company built to serve the automotive and marine industry with rebuilt starters, alternators, brake calipers and power steering components. ZEX has now expanded their expertise to A/C compressors. The newly formed branch of Zex Toronto handles rebuilding and servicing of automotive A/C compressors and clutch assemblies. Not to stop there, ZEX also rebuilds Super Chargers and Turbo Chargers!….and if we look alittle further towrds the track ZEX also builds some wild high horsepower engines as well!

ZEX Toronto looks forward to bringing their PRO10five class entry this season and as always continues their involvement of CHU Board of Directors member Luciano Vitelli’s Super Street team.

 

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Ultimate Car & Truck Refinishing teams up with CHU for 2022

Feb 1, 2022 

 

IHRP and CHU welcome Bryon Treveld’s Ultimate Car & Truck Refinishing and Collision Center to our roster for 2022. Brian has been a repeat competitor in the Canada Heads Up – Shootout Series presented by Speedwire and Nash Competition Engines for the last few years and finished top 5 last season.

Ultimate Car & Truck Refinishing and Collision Center can be found in Sutton Ontario, just south of Lake Simcoe! Check these links to their FB page and their website for more details! Ultimate Car & Truck Refinishing and Collision Center can also be found through the series website at ianhillracing.com

Bryon is also a VP Racing Fuels dealer and is known for his extra service of delivering orders to the track as needed for his customers on CHU Race days!

Thank you Bryon and we look forward to seeing the results of your winter upgrades!

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RM Racing Lubricants adds support to the 2022 season…

January 27, 2022

Richard Matthie and his RM Racing Lubricants has become well known within the Ontario drag racing scene. He continues to promote his company through series sponsorship’s, race team full product sponsorship’s and associate level sponsorship! Watching RM Racing Lubricants one might say they are everywhere right now! We seen them sign up many new racers for 2022 in the Bike and Car scene, including 2 new pro mod teams! 

 

Rich and RM Racing Lubricants are back to support Canada Heads Up, as well as the RPM Magazine Smackdown6 event and has put support together for the Ontario vs Quebec grudge bike shootout!

RM Racing Lubricants will be back in their normal spot at TMP for all the IHRP events in 2022 right near the tech inspection area.

 

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Nash Competition Engines presents Canada Heads Up

January 25, 2022

Nick Agostino’s Nash Competition Engines will be one of the companies helping to present Canada’s fastest growing series for 2022- Canada Heads Up! 

Nash Competition Engines has a long history behind some of the quickest and fastest streetcar shootout style cars in Ontario and Nick’s move to carry on the engine shop will help maintain the quality and popularity moving forward!

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Nash Competition Engines joins CHU to bring in the new year with mighty bang!

January 25, 2022

Wow! we crack the doors to the 2022 season and find that the flood gates have opened… 

IHRP/ CHU would like to welcome Nash Competition Engines on board the CHU series as a presenting sponsor. Nash Competiton Engine has a rich history of being part of some the quickest cars in the street shootout scene on Ontario and with the move of new owner Nick Agostino, that rich performance history will continue!  


Watch for Nash Competition Engines, out of Scarborough On, horsepower coming your way in 2022!

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Speedwire returns as a Canada Heads Up Presenting supporter

January 21, 2021

Canada Heads Up and IHRP welcome back Speedwire Systems as a presenting supporter of our series. Speedwire System is a Canadian made/ Canadian quality performance switch panel manufacturer local in Toronto Ont. Speedwire Systems can be found in many of the entries at CHU events. they have systems that are custom tailored for Nitrous or Boost combos while also offering basic switch panels that perform flawlessly time after time on index and naturally aspirated dial in entries!

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2022 Canada heads Up – Kick off

January 21, 2022 from the oval office of the super secret hide out of the OGW

 

As the snow and ice builds, many of us are busting knuckles on winter updates and upgrades the people behind the scenes of Canada Heads Up – Shootout series are already hard at it, getting together to make 2022 the greatest season of CHU yet!

We would like to well two new board members and a new committee chairperson.

We welcome Luciano Vitelli and Frank Cesario to our Board of Directors. Luch and Frank join our current board of Wajdy Kahlil, Dean, Louie Braccio, Stuart Gerbino and series director Ian Hill. “We look forward to Luch’s input in giving us feed back from the Heads Up competitors as well we look forward to Luch’s focus on helping us ensure our sponsors and supporter agreements are being follow through properly. Frank Cesario’s long standing involvement in all forms of drag racing will come into play as his focus will to aid our continued growth within the index/ sportsman side of things and off track social events/ items. We added two members to the board this year so we can maintain the odd number of BoD members required to reach a majority vote on such items.

CHU also welcomes our new Bike Committee chair – Mike Pereira. Mike will be working with the Bike competitors as a direct line to the Board. We look forward to Mike’s input on all bike related issues and helping us to shape our efforts for future growth of the series.

In the coming weeks we look forward to opening up our Membership for early sign up, releasing our parking plan, and gearing up for the series with our annual “Locked In” posters! – are racing with Canada Heads Up this year?… then send us a PM on FB and well get your hot rod on our list of Locked In racers!!!!

 

 

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