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Midget cars racing at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Midget cars, also Speedcars in Australia, is a class of racing cars. The cars are very small with a very high power-to-weight ratio and typically use four cylinder engines. They originated in the United States in the 1930s and are raced on most continents.
Sarah Fisher's quarter midget car in 2007. Quarter midget racing is a form of automobile racing. The cars are approximately one-quarter (1 ⁄ 4) the size of a full-size midget car. The adult-size midget being raced during the start of quarter midget racing used an oval track of one-fifth of a mile in length.
UMRA was the start of open wheel racing for NASCAR Driver Tony Stewart. [3] Former UMRA turned pro drivers return to UMRA races for the fun of racing. One such example was in 2000, when Tony Stewart returned to UMRA for a quick race before a Winston Cup test. This was the first time he had raced against his father, Nelson Stewart. [4]
NEMA gradually outgrew its humble beginnings and emerged as a solid professional division. The early rules of NEMA restricted the use of costly specialized racing engines, specifically the twin overhead camshaft Offenhauser. These engines were so powerful and expensive that owners with modified stock engines had little chance at the top prize ...
Tony Stewart racing at the 2008 Chili Bowl. The Chili Bowl Midget Nationals is an indoor midget car race that takes place in January on a 1 ⁄ 5 mi (0.32 km) dirt oval track [1] at the Tulsa Expo Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. [2] NASCAR calls it the "biggest Midget race of the year". [3] It is nicknamed the "Super Bowl of midget ...
The organizers of the Hinchliffe Stadium Racing Expo, a group dedicated to midget car racing, this past weekend held their first event since the stadium underwent a $109 million renovation.
It became the arbiter of rules, car design, and other matters for what it termed championship auto racing, the highest level of USAC racing. For a while there was a separate series of specifications for championship cars designed to be run on dirt, rather than paved, tracks.
The American Racing Drivers Club was organized in 1939, making it one of the oldest sanctioning bodies in the United States, predating NASCAR by nearly a decade. The purpose of the organization was to represent the drivers and car owners in dealing with track owners and promoters. The club's first president was Bill Schindler.