December 17, 2019

From the printing press at the super-secret hideout of IHRP head quarters

Ian Hill Racing Productions (IHRP) is pleased to release our 2020 race schedule. The 7-race schedule will see the Heads Up Street Car Shootout Series – powered by Maxima Racing Oil and the RPM Magazine Smackdown4 races being held at St. Thomas Raceway Park will Unfinished Business returns to NYIRP – Lancaster Dragway in NY. We are still in negotiations for a couple of other events we look forward to hosting/ co-hosting in 2020 as well we look forward to attending Quebec Grudge Wars’ June 2020 Small Tire Shootout.

Heads Up – Street Car Shootout Series – powered by Maxima Racing Oil continues from our inaugural 2019 season. The same classes will be run with a few extras added in! The series will see a continuation of a similar points structure and record-breaking performance recording for Super Street, EZ Street, 235 Outlaws, Street Bikes and Street275. 8.80 Extreme bikes will also chase points for the 2020 season as they continue being part of the Pro Category section of the Schedule. The weekend will be capped of with 2 Dial-in car classes, Bikes and Sleds and Jr. Dragster racing.

New for 2020 – we are considering adding the sportsman classes to our points structure; we’ve loads of requests to add a No Time class to our schedule; we are considering adding exhibition classes to a couple of our events.

On the schedule side of things, our focus is to try to secure bigger payouts and draw more entries. So the only way to schedule it properly is to set our goals on having 2 day/ 1 race weekends for all classes! This will ensure that all classes can get finished, payouts made, and awards handed out at each weekend – barring weather!

RPM Magazine Smackdown4 – As always, this event will feature everything for the No Time heads up doorslammer enthusiast as well bring the best of sportsman racing under one roof! Classes at the event will include: Outlaw Extreme, Limited 28s, 235 Outlaws, Street Bike, Street275, Real Street, 8.80 Extreme Bikes, 3 dial-in classes for Autos and Bikes/ Sleds and Jr Dragster racing. 2020 will see the return of CANADA’S FASTEST STREET CAR SHOOTOUT – a we search to find the quickest 1/8mile street car in Canada! Also new and exciting will be the addition of Sunday’s No Clock Small Block Shootout! The schedule for this event will look like previous years with some slight differences. Friday testing will be followed with the regular Friday night TNT. Saturday will feature the complete No Time Heads Up event from start to finish, which the Sportsman classes will begin on Saturday and Sunday, ensuring all classes will be completed and get their proper payouts and awards!

Unfinished Business returns to NYIRP – Lancaster Dragway in August! Get ready for a great weekend of camping and racing as we strive to bring you a show that will top our efforts of 2019. All the same classes with a few surprises we have in store should keep everyone excited as we make press releases over the next few months!

The Fall Small Tire Shootout returns to Sparta… where it all started 8 years ago! 3 classes of No Time heads up racing will fill the day – Big Tire, Small Tire and real Street.

“With GBM Management’s announcement that they will be breaking ground on the STRP re-surface and concrete barrier project early May 2020, we couldnt be more excited to bring heads up class racing back to one of the pioneering facilities of Pro racing in Canada!” – Ian Hill

2020 is looking great, we can’t wait to get back to STRP and NYIRP and hope you will join us! In the meantime, keep watching for more updates as we have them, including our presence at the 2020 Motorama Car Show!

December 16, 2020

From the Convention Center at our super secret vacation property in Indy…

Hot off the press! We are so proud to announce our new partnership between Ian Hill Racing Productions – Heads Up Street Car Shootout Series and Maxima Racing Oil. The 2020 series will be promoted as “powered by Maxima!” Along with logo presence thorough out the series, Maxima Racing Oil will be represented at each of the races on the IHRP upcoming season schedule with product info and product display vendor style tent, which will be located beside the registration booth throughout 2020. Master distributer Richard Matthie of RM Racing Lubricants will be on hand at each of the races to answer any of your Maxima related questions.

Maxima Racing Oil has a rich history in 2-wheel motorsports and has begun their focus on the Auto related motorsports and we are very excited they have chosen our brand of drag racing to partner with to help get the word out on their great products. Maxima has a complete line of racing lubricants: many grades of Synthetic and Mineral engine oils, transmission fluids, Brake fluid, gear oil and more. They also offer a line of cleaners and aerosol lubricants. Check out there complete catalog on line and sign up to their newsletter for great info and deals.

“Securing the deal to bring another great marketing partner like Maxima Racing Oil to the series, shows the strength and following we have behind, beside and in front of us! Continuing the Heads Up Series through 2019 from its beginnings in the Street Car based events was an awesome experience; one we could not have done with out the help of our racers and local supporters. Moving into 2020 we hope to maintain the partners we’d gained in 2019 and create an amazing 2020, making 2020 yet another step in the staircase we are creating. I’d like to thank David Small for the initial introduction to RM Racing Lubricants Richard Matthie, as well spotlight the quickly made friendship and marketing partnership with Rich.” – Ian Hill

July 9, 2019 – From the office that makes shit happen at the super secret hide out of the OGW

With only 10 days to go till Southern Ontario’s most exciting car event of the summer, the RPM Smackdown3 is shaping up to be the premier street car drag racing event of the year! Now in its 7th year in Ontario, No Time Grudge based racing is at its peak again this summer.

After what was the most action packed an afternoon/ evening could be, the 2018 2nd running of the Smackdown was off the charts with some great match ups in the Outlaw and Limited28s classes. The growth that the Real Street class saw from the Smackdown2 to the fall small tire shootout was equally impressive and 2019’s RPM Magazine will be a show stopper! This year, with the addition of heads up classes 235Outlaws and Street Bikes, we are sure to put on a Saturday street car show of the old days! Add this with the large guaranteed payouts in Street275 and the Pro, Super Pro and Jr Dragster classes the July 19-21 weekend at Toronto Motorsports Park will be awesome!

The weekend features a test day Friday which flows into Saturday’s Heads Up and Sportsman classes. The Heads Up classes feature Outlaw Extreme, a Clocks Off, limited rules classes for any doors cars with 10.5w tires or less running off their share of the $10,000 class purse. Limited28s, some would argue the most popular heads up class around these days, features stock appearing cars with a few rules, running on 28″ tires with unlimited HP! These bad ass small tire cars will also be shooting their guns in an effort to nab some of the $10,000 purse for their class. Street275 is back and hosts a $4000 purse, the new 235Outlaws are hitting the track for a $1000 purse as are the Street Bike jockeys! Add to the mix $6500 in bottom bulb sportsman payouts over the weekend, $9000 in top bulb dial in purses, $1800 in jr Dragster purses, and a $200 per day per class bonus to the Bikes and Sleds and Extreme8.80s winners…. then on top of it all there is a RPM Magazine Smackdown3 Heavy Weight Championship Belt on the line for each!

All in all a weekend for the racer with over $45,000 in Payouts ready for those that prove perfection and luck can go hand in hand, along side the perfect weekend for the drag racing street car enthusiast as the amazing show they will see on Saturday July 20th!

Check out our website for details and rules, sponsor links and some profiles of the greatest racers in our area!

Check out the website for details on this years premier Ontario Street Car event! 2019’s RPM Magazine Smackdown3 will be off the hook with $45,000 in guaranteed payouts over the 3 day weekend.

June 3, 2019 – from the bat cave at the super secret hide of the OGW

What could possibly better than the 2018 partnership between RPM Magazine and Ian Hill Racing Promotions you ask? How can anything be cooler than those few bad-ass hotrods that ended up being featured in the pages of RPM Magazine? 

Well… how about this!!!!! RPM Magazine is looking for the TOP TEN bad-ass cars that show up to one of Ian Hill Racing Promotions events this year! Thats right TEN CARS!!!! Come out to one of the Canada Heads Up or OGW’s running of the RPM Magazine Smackdown3 and you’ll have your chance to end up on the pages of Canada’s top racing magazine!

When is your next chance to be picked…

June 8-9 Canada Heads Up Race 2

July 11 All Out Live/ Lapeer Michigan

July 19-21 RPM Magazine Smackdown3

Aug 24-25 Canada Heads Up

Sept 21-22 Canada Heads Up

see you there……. 🙂

May 16, 2019

With only a 8 days to go until we hit the track word on the street is TMP will be the place to be next weekend to see the best Street Car Shootout action in Ontario Canada!

Please check out the standard TMP Gate pricing as listed in the above flier as well all of the Class entry fees.

As a reminder, ALL Pro Classes including Street275 and Street Bike are Qualifying Saturday/ Racing Sunday. Sportsman classes which include Bikes and Sleds, All Indexes and Open/ Pro Comp are One race Saturday, One Race Sunday!

Keep watch early next week for an update showing the weekend Schedule and an update to our Guaranteed Payouts!!!!!

May 7, 2019

VIP Passes are now available!

$200 for the 4 race season will get you:

– Reserved Pit Spot (first come/ first serve). We ave 19 spots available on the Pro Pits area and many more across the staging lane area in the Sportsman Section. While we cant guaranteed your spot will be free during Friday night’s TnT session, we can guaranteed it will be free before and after! The Pit Spot reservations are only valid for our 4 series races.

– A Canada Heads Up Series shirt and cool VIP Tow Rig windshield sticker showing everyone what pit spot is yours!!!!!

– Fill out your registration information and have it in to us by the Wednesday @ Noon prior to the race weekend and we will ensure all your information is documented and ready for you when it comes time to register – helping you avoid any long delays at registration.

– Crew VIP. Prepay for your crew members entrance before they arrive! As a racer many times we arrive at the race track long before or after our crew members. With the VIP you can contact us a week before the race and prepay for all your crew, getting them on the VIP Gate Pass List!

– Register as a Canada Heads Up VIP by May 18th and you’ll get one draw ticket for the Miller Welding Equipment Welder we are raffling off May 25th!

May 7, 2019

With only 2 and a half weeks to go before the season opener, last minute sponsors are still pouring in! When we approached by many Motorcycle Drag Racers at the Motorama car show, we had no idea the support that would follow would be so great!

Canada Heads Up series will feature among many others car classes, 3 classes specifically for bikes (and bikes and sleds)! The regular dial in, pro tree Bikes and Sleds handicap class will be accompanied by Extreme8.80 and Street Bike! Rules can be found on the Canada Heads up Facebook and in copies of our rule book which can be had by hitting the contact us page on the web site or asking for a hard copy at the first race May 25/26.

Extreme8.80 is a index for the hardcore sportsman bike racer while the Street Bike class is the Bike racers go to class for Heads Up pro tree drag racing on stock wheel base/ no bar bikes!

We are super excited to have the Bikes and Sleds racers join us this season. Support for the class payouts will come from the series Sponsorship pool and be subsidized by the following awesome companies: Unlimited Landscaping, Norris Roofing, Advanced Auto, Amberlea Landscaping,  Uniglass Windshields, One Call Property Services, CSO Elite Protection and Berta Landscaping. 

May 6, 2019

Joe Van O makers of some of the finest carbon fiber race car body parts in the industry has joined forces with the RPM Smackdown3 to help bring you the best trophies a racer could ask for – A Heavy Weight style Championship Belt!

Joe Van O light weight body parts can be found on many of the quickest outlaw door slammers in Canada and US including many Radial vs The World competitors. 

Vist there web page and give them a call the next time you are looking for lightweight body parts for your race car!

April showers bring… May Sponsors!!!!!

OGW and Canada Heads Up as proud to announce the addition or 3 new associate sponsors. 

Finish Line Niagara – Thank you Jesse and Rich, Finish Line Niagara are Media Blasting and Paint Specialists

Champion Motors – The GTA place to shop for OEM Performance replacement componets, engines, body work and mechanical service. Specializing Corvette and Camaro upgrades! Call Rob to answer any questions you may have!

Tovey Motorsports – Glenn and Rick have a long history with our group, racing and leaders during the the OCSA early days. Followed up by the Tovey family being one of the partnering famillies behind the Pro Tree Association, and now not only will they been racing at our events, they stand beside us with support!

All three of these great supporters can be found in our Sponsors section on the webpage