"Tuners against street Racing" Automotive Event. July 21.2007
 

[Hope this is okay with the mods... and we would like Toronto Gtcars.ca Crew to come out in full force and support this cause - lets show them its not all about Street Racing - Changing attitudes one show at a time]

Team International Allstars Canada and JRP Presents "Tuners Against Street Racing" "Keeping the Streets Safe"

"Charity Automotive Enthusiast Event in support Big Brothers and Big Sisters"

Host: Team International Allstars and JRP
Type: Education - Workshop

Time and Place Date: Saturday, July 21, 2007
Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Location: JRP Mississauga (JRP - Canada & USA Supplier of Aftermarket Performance Parts)
Street: 2344 South Sheridan Way

City/Town: Mississauga, ON

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2344+South+Sheridan+Way%2C+Missis sauga%2C+ON

Contact Info Phone: 905.822.7223
Email: celina.marketing@rogers.com

The Reason behind the Event "Promote safe modification awareness by Automotive Enthusiasts and Racing in a Controlled safe race track environment with proper education."

Being a mentor to younger generations, and educating starting young is important for a better society. These mentors are responsible for setting role models and expectations to be followed. In the tuner industry respectable organizations and dealers of performance parts should be the mentors for the future vehicle tuners.

Car tuning is an industry and a hobby, for many, which can be very expensive and time consuming. The objectives are to improve the car’s performance and handling to better suit the owners driving style. Tuning has become a way to personalize the characteristics of the vehicle to the owner’s preference. Tuning also includes modifying the exterior of the car to improve aerodynamic and appearance. All modifications should meet legal requirements.

Individuals, who choose to tune their vehicles, often take pride in their work and would not take the risk of damaging their cars; most tuned cars are not driven often and some times have to be trailed to different locations. These individuals often are members of car clubs. In these clubs special events and cruises are planned, so they can enjoy their rides in a safe environment.

Movies such as “The Fast and the Furious” and video games, have glamorized street racing therefore encouraging a lot of young people to modify their cars, without being educated about the tuner industry. This negative media has damaged the image of the tuner industry and individuals who are part of it.

Many events out there eg. Canadian Sport Compact Series (CSCS - cscs.ca), or Castrol Canadian Touring Car Championship(touringcar.ca) show and encourage individuals to “prove it at the track” in a safe environment. These events usualy consist of a Show and Shine, Drag Racing, Lapping, and Drifting, as well as Touring Car circuit racing, and welcome everyone from amateurs to professionals. Participating in these events gives the enthusiast an opportunity to test their vehicle against time or competitors away from the streets and in a controlled, safe environment.

There are many more organizations within the tuner industry with the same objective. There are schools where you can bring your vehicle and learn how to race, take you car to the track, and have the experience of riding with a professional racer.

Street racing can be planned however most of the time an action of impulse. Street racers do not usually think of the consequences of their actions. Their main focus is on winning the race forgetting that they are sharing the roads with other individuals. This mind set must be changed with proper education, and awarness of the various options available out there.

The important thing to remember is that a tuner is not always a street racer; they are the ones who are the most unlikely to street race, since they are educated on this industry and have opportunities to test theirs car in safe environments, and compete with cars at their levels, therefore having a real challenge.

It is hard to identify street racers since their actions are based on impulse, but one thing is for sure, they are new to this industry and require guidence and proper education.

Event Objectives:
- To change the current perception created by negative media regarding the tuner industry and its relation to street racing
- Provide a fun event full of activities for everyone and at the same time provide the general public with an opportunity to learn about the tuner industry
- Change the mind set of “street racers” and encourage them to leave the streets and go to race tracks, keeping the streets safe. If you have something to prove go to the track!
-Take this opportunity to get involved with giving back to the community by supporting a charity


-Home Grilled JRP BBQ -
-Special Guest Speakers - Keith Losier(Desired Customs - Top Tuner Solstice) + More
-Live Band and DJs
-Meet Industry Professionals and get educated right from the source
-Media
-Contests to test your knowledge of Vehicle Safety
-Prizes
-Raffle Draw
-Games
-Tuner Education Workshops
-Lots of Fun

30 to 50 of the best cars in the industry will be judged by qualified volunteers, competing for a chance to win best of their respected category and receive a trophy. Category winners will be awarded at the end of the event by some of International Allstars spoke models.

Categories shall consist of:
- Best of Show
- Best Paint
- Best Ice
- Best Car Club
- Best Japanese/JDM
- Best Mazda
- Best Toyota
- Best Hyundai
- Best Celica
- Best Subaru
- Best Nissan
- Best Honda Civic
- Best Honda Other
- Best Acura
- Best Domestic
- Best Chrysler/Dodge
- Best European
- Best Import Other
- Best Full Size Truck
- Best Mini Truck
- Best Female Ride
- Best SUV
- Best Bike


Vehicle Roll-in - 10AM - 11AM

Competitors - $15 registration fee

Spectators - $2

FREE for Any Big Brother and Big Sister and children under 12 Years of Age.
-Please respect the fact that this is a Family Event for everyone as well so proper manners are expected.
-In support of Big Brothers and Big Sisters

Vehicle Registrations have now begun.

To register please send email to:

tasr.registrations@rogers.com

Include:
1. Your First and Last Name
2. Vehicle, Make, Model, Year
3. Club Affiliation
(5 or more get discount rate)

Register through email - Pay at the gates of the event.

NOW officially a Street Concepts Point Event for more information check out www.streetconcepts.com.

Register early to get a goodie bag when you roll in.

Thank you.

"Tuners Against Street Racing" Event Team
International Allstars Canada

This seems weird

Whats wrong with it? Sounds kosher..

Weird why? Updated categories and will be a Street Concepts Points event. See you everyone there.

Matt
International Allstars Canada

Ya I kinda think it sounds weird too - it all sounds good untill you see the registration fees and spectator fees. If its for education purposes - why charge???. Where does the money go, supposedly a charity event without meantion of the charity (maybe I missed it somewhere)

If its a show and shine - then just say so, but it seems like its a money making venture along with promoting the companies under the disguise of an educational event/charity, inviting the media for more company awareness, etc....

I've been to many company cruise ins/shows and have never seen anyone ever charge for it, and if its hosted at a dealership/performance shop, it's usually all paid for/sponsored by the event holders and free to all the public.

Now I have no problems with a company(s) promoting/advertising themselves, thats all fine and normal - just say what it is

I've posted free events on here before and was never allowed to meantion where we'd be cruising to (if it was a shop and which one, no sponsored events, etc..)

Ya I dunno, something just seems suspicious to me - can anyone clarify this?

ahh stop it .. don't be silly. What you said can be also associated to any event. Its a show and shine event where we try to bring in people to talk about their passion for automotive industry and how they are trying to make a change. Everyone there is there because they are tired of being labeled something they are not, and because they want to keep this sport alive. JRP is only the venu, the Charity is Big Brothers and Big Sisters because they are involved with our youth, all the hard work(believe or not there is hard work involved in this sort of thing) was not paid or sponsored by anyone. We had to do it ourselves, if u want to help out by all means i can tell u what u can do to assist us. Booth and entry/registration fees are donated to charity. The entry fee is 2 dollars so anyone can come out and enjoy it, the registration fee for people showing their cars is to cover goodie bags and trophies. If we wanted to make money on this event we would jack up the entry fees and registration fees sky high. Every event has costs associated with it, like printing of flyers etc. Thank you for your support though and come out if you can. If u are not able to its all good as well.

Have a great weekend.

Matt

My bad - missed the big bros + big sis's part - although maybe at the top of the first post - you should edit it to say the charity is Big Bro....etc...

But it did come off sounding like a car competition event rather than a charity/educational thing, with no meantion of what the prizes are (not that I care cuz I dont enter those types of things - just not my scene)

I know about the hard work - in the past I've assembled many events (cruises, special programs for special interest vehicles and their owners, shows, etc..) mainly by myself without the aid of the internet, so I know what it takes

So ya - maybe re-edit the OP, I wasnt the only one who thought it came off sounding weird

one question tho - if a car is not entered for judging - where do spectators park their rides? - on yer premisis or where?


Good luck with yer event

There will be a parking spot available beside JRP, the people are donating their space. Please keep in mind man that its not JRP doing it its our car club. We are trying our best man.. its hard .. but we have to step up and do something too many people get singled out when all they do is just drive their cars and too many people are dying.

Matt

I been getting hit with a lot of emails.. please understand that JRP is just the venu, no one is making money on this, the entry fee is 2 bux.. come on.. and registration fees will cover trophies and goodie bags.. also... Big Brothers and Big Sisters has crisis, there is a shortage of Big Brothers, so its a chance for them to maybe get a few good Brothers from our event. Maybe someone will want to become Big Brothers and try to influence the youth so they dont kill themselves on the streets. Thank you.

Are we going to post a list of who is going?
5 or more get discount rate.

I am in

They help us streetrace and hey they sell nitrous too. Oxymoron.

awards for best honda, mazda, subaru, toyota.... best celica! but not one for best chevy, or ford? People do actually drive corvettes, camaros and mustangs...

^^^ what does Best Domestic mean then???

hahah but domestics arent called tuner cars, more like muscle car.

They forgot Grand Am's and Toyota Camry's, they streetrace too.

Good point. I will add those.

Matt

lol .

I'd be there if the show was held on the front lawn of Queens Park (not kidding).

Waiting for that one to happen, guess people aren't mad enough yet but the truckers, cabbies, farmers, potheads etc.... are.

okay i am in, hopefully my supra will be road worthy by then.

what happens in the event of rain?
the show goes on? or will there be a rain date.?

sounds like fun, i'll be there.

Rain or shine, we are hoping for shine. We got space in the JRP store. hehe we can hide.

just call it tuners aginst driving modified cars...... it would be a misnomer to call it otherwise.... gotta take a wishy washy political stance eh.

kool that sounds kool

Are you inviting the media?

Possibly a good idea since they're the ones that are throwing fuel onto the fire of this whole "streetracer = tuner = the devil" thing...

I can see the headlines now...tuners against STREET RACING

Sounds pretty good and has been posted on dozens of message boards but what do you think will be the situation with cops/mto, etc, getting to the show and at the show, etc, ?

haha I was thinking the same thing. Media twists it, cops camp outside.

I'm going but in the Baystreet Brawler, not the GT-R :smilie_da

Press Release to Follow:

Thank you everyone for attending our event. The turn out was much more than what we expected, it was totally unexpected to have so many cars out. It was a crazy day, a lot of work, however my International Allstars Team TeamAllstars.com - show cars, show motorcycles, show models and JRP Team JRP - Canada & USA Supplier of Aftermarket Performance Parts came through with flying colors. Wow!

Thank you for coming out and supporting "International Allstars Canada and JRP Presents "Tuners Against Street Racing" in support of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Peel. Both International Allstars and JRP Teams did an excellent job. We helped Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Peel to get a few more Brothers, since there is a long list of boys who are waiting for a Big Brother (if you are interested in becoming a Big Brother or Big Sister visit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel - BBBS and help with their cause. We hope this event also brought up awareness of the street racing issue. I hope I didn’t annoy too many people, as I had to take on an MC role last minute. I hope I did a good job.

Now about the event;
There was a seminar inside of JRP, which I announced number of times throughout the day. Chuck Atkins the director of SoloSprint Series was present at the event and had a presentation put together to educate people on road/track racing and safety. He announced the seminar at JRP himself as well as introduced the Solo Sprint Series. Unfortunately there was not enough interest from the attendees, and we are still trying to figure out why, since it was an awesome presentation with videos and everything! Chuck prepared something really nice for everyone and really educational too! Please if you did not get a chance to attend the seminar and want to know more about SOLO 1 or SOLO 2 visit SOLO ONTARIO

Also present at the event were;
>Gerry Cornwell - an instructor from Ian Law's Car Control School with his racecar. For more information on Ian Law and Car Control School visit ::Car Control School::.
>Jim Pirzas and his crew from TryKarting - they work with other organizations to help eliminate street racing as well, “Stop Street Racing Try Karting!” For more information visit Stop Street Racing! Try Karting! - About Us.
>John Bondar - President of the Castrol Canadian Touring Car Championship, he was kind enough to provide us with some tickets for the next race on Aug 11-12, as well as some posters for giveaways. If you got a ticket do not miss your chance to watch some really good racing. If you did not get a ticket, more tickets are available at the JRP Mississauga location. For more information visit touringcar.ca - Canada's Premiere Sportscar Championship
>Importfest brought 2 of their cars to support the event. Do not miss their event on November 17, 2007. For more information visit IMPORTFEST
>Street Concepts Competition Series – For more information visit StreetConcepts.com
>Valerie Kabouris – Founder and owner of Baby Doll Performance – guest at the TV show Unique Whips from Speed TV was present representing her shop Baby Doll Performance. For more information visit www.babydollperformance.com
>Also checking out the show was Keith Losier –Part of The Auto Dream Group – responsible for some of the best custom vehicles builds and concepts in the industry. For more information visit The Autodream Group | From the Street, to the Showroom...
>Willy Dog – Thank you for being there and providing delicious Hot Dogs and donating to Big Brothers and Big Sisters. For more information visit WillyDog Carts Factory Direct 800-915-4683 US Factory Hot Dog Carts
>Performance Auto & Sound Magazine – Thank you for being there to cover the event and contributing giveaway prizes and magazines. For more information visit Performance Auto & Sound - The Girls - The Cars - The Life
>>Meguiars - Thank you for donating giweaway items for goodie bags. There are no excuses now, everyone's car should be swirl free and have crazy shine. For more information visit Car Care Products: Car Waxes to Leather Cleaners, Meguiar's the Leader in Car and Surface Care since 1901

This was a first show of its kind for International Allstars and JRP, therefore it will take many more to get people to listen to what we are trying to progress.

This year’s focus was to encourage racing in a controlled and safe environment and off the streets. Since Street Racing is an issue, which was predominant in the media, we felt like we could not wait and had to have this event as soon as possible, leaving us with little time to plan it. We are happy that many schools and institutions actually came out and supported our idea. We approached many different organizations to participate in this event, we thank those who were able to make in such short notice, and however there were a few which could not fit this event into their schedules. We also had the support of CSCS.ca, which promotes safe drifting, drag and track racing at their events. As you see we tried to cover as many aspects of racing as possible. Next year we will try to present to you much more! Another thing on the positive side, which I think we can all agree on is that we were blessed with gorgeous weather! Therefore the education was there, and will be more next year, considering we only had 2 months to prepare this event. At times things got out of hand, hopefully no one noticed, hehehe…we had our hands full and might have missed a few things. We will be more aware next time. I am very proud of our event.

International Allstars Team/judges and my crew did a phenomenal job in listening to everyone and what they had to say about their cars. I guess this is why it took so long for us to judge. Plus the calibre of cars we had, was phenomenal so it took longer to sort. We cannot please everyone but I am really proud of this event. Big thank you for everyone being a part of our event and representing them selves in a very professional and clubman like manner. You guys are an example to be followed bar none. It will be a pleasure to work with you in the future.

About No Police Presence at the Event, E.R.A.S.E was totally interested in coming out and supporting our event, however we decided not to as there is just too much heat in the media, and we cant being to imagine what might have happened. It turned out well.

Please check the links listed in the hand out inside your goodie bags. Some really good information there! If you did not get one, or lost yours here are the links again:
http://www.yorkregionsavealife.com/...rojectErase.htm
Street Racing Bill Becomes Law
Ministry of Transportation / Ministère des Transports
Ministry of the Environment (MOE) / Ministere de l'Environnement

We appreciate any comments and suggestions, as you guys are the ones who make up these shows, as spectators or participants, if you have anything to say please send to:
tasr.registrations@rogers.com


Matt Makarucha
President International Allstars Canada