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  2. Midget car racing - Wikipedia

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    A midget car. Typically, these four-cylinder-engine cars have 300 horsepower (220 kW) to 400 horsepower (300 kW) and weigh 900 pounds (410 kg). [1] [2] The high power and small size of the cars combine to make midget racing quite dangerous; for this reason, modern midget cars are fully equipped with roll cages and other

  3. Quarter midget racing - Wikipedia

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    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. The child's quarter midget track is one quarter that length, or 1 ⁄ 20 mile (264 feet; 80 m).

  4. Australian Speedcar Championship - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Speedcar Championship is a dirt track motor racing championship held in Australia each year to determine the Australian national champion in Speedcars (otherwise known as midget car racing).

  5. The first midget car race was held at Hinchliffe in 1934, just a couple of years after the stadium opened. It was a fast-paced sport that brought entertainment to fans, and it was especially ...

  6. POWRi Midget Racing - Wikipedia

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    POWRi (Performance Open Wheeled Racing, inc.) is a dirt track racing sanctioning body based in the United States, founded by promoter Kenny Brown. [1] [2]It organizes the POWRi National Midget Series, a midget car racing series rival to the USAC National Midget Series, as well as the POWRi West Midget Series and POWRi Outlaw Midget Series feeder series.

  7. Sprint car racing - Wikipedia

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    Sprint cars are open-wheel race cars, designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or 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.

  8. Modified racing - Wikipedia

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    There is also a class of Dwarf Cars that race on dirt called the Vintage Lite Series. They race a mixed field of cars, some resembling the vintage cars and some scaled-down versions of the current modified dirt cars (these cars are often referred to as the MiniMods). ModLites. A ModLite is a 5/8th scale of a Dirt Modified.

  9. Offenhauser - Wikipedia

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    An Offenhauser midget engine, polished for display Offenhauser midget car engine - front view. Offenhauser produced engine blocks in several sizes. These blocks could be bored out or sleeved to vary the cylinder bore, and could be used with crankshafts of various strokes, resulting in a wide variety of engine displacements.