Dave Heaslip

David "Dave" 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 either side of the St. Lawrence River.

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 ON. He won his first feature event soon afterwards, and added the Watertown Speedway on the U.S. side of the border as a regular stop.

Heaslip competed successfully at the race venues of southeastern Canada and northern New York, including Brockville Speedway ON, Capital City Speedway ON, Lebanon Valley Speedway NY, Outlaw Speedway NY. Heaslip won three track championships at each Autodrome Edelweiss QC, Cornwall Motor Speedway ON, and Frogtown International Speedway NY, and one at Can-Am Speedway NY. In 2003, he competed in a BriSCA F-1 for the BriSCA World Finals at Coventry Speedway, England.

Heaslip was inducted into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame in 2007.