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Sprint cars are open-wheel race cars, designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval, circular dirt or paved tracks. Historically known simply as "big cars," distinguishing them from "midget cars," sprint car racing is popular primarily in the United States and Canada, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Edmunds created the blueprints and did most of the fabrication work on the original Bill Thomas Cheetah prototype sports car racer. His chassis won several National Midget Championships in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [2] In the 1970s, Edmunds was a prolific constructor of Formula Super Vee cars. [3] He became a collector and restorer of old ...
Trevis Indy Car, 1961. Floyd Trevis of Youngstown, Ohio was an American builder of racing cars and sprint cars. [1] Cars built by Trevis competed in FIA World Championship (Indy 500 only) and USAC events from 1951 to 1961. [1] [2] As a builder of sprint cars, Trevis provided the vehicles for a great number of champions.
IMCA Modified IMCA Stock Car IMCA Hobby Stocks IMCA Northern SportMod IMCA Southern SportMod IMCA Sprint Car IMCA Sport Compact. The International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) was organized in 1915 by J. Alex Sloan, and is the oldest active auto racing sanctioning body in the United States.
The Hustler was a Mini-based project designed in 1978 by Aston Martin Lagonda designer William Towns and later developed into a kit car by his Interstyl design studio. The original version used upper and lower square-section steel frames, clad with glass fibre panels and large flat glass windows. On most models sliding side windows acted as doors.
Mark E. Smith (born July 14, 1971) is an American professional racing driver with experience in sprint car and stock car racing.He last competed in the United Sprint Car Series and part-time in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 42 Chevrolet Silverado for Niece Motorsports.
David MacFarland Steele (May 7, 1974 – March 25, 2017) [2] was an American professional racing driver who won numerous sprint car racing championships and also competed in IndyCar and NASCAR races. Steele last drove a winged sprint car in the Southern Sprintcar Shootout Series, where he won the first 5 races in series history.
The giant wings, generally a maximum of 24 sq ft (2.2 m 2)' in area, are mounted on the frame in a manner resembling sprint cars and serve a similar purpose, designed to produce downforce and thus increase cornering capabilities at high speed. West Coast (ERA/SMRA) cars run a fixed wing, whereas East Coast (ISMA/MSS) cars generally run a wing ...