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This means the rear of the car has a torsion bar system that is identical to the 4 bar set-up, while the front-end uses shocks with coil springs. Mini-sprints use a solid, live rear axle that is positioned in the chassis by a Jacobs Ladder or panhard bar. Unlike the midget or the sprint car, the final drive on a mini-sprint is a roller chain.
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.
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.
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.
Pickens beside his USAC Midget car (United States) in July 2014 Pickens racing his 2008 ASA Late Model Series car Pickens racing in his late model at Madison International Speedway in 2007. Michael Pickens (born 7 January 1983) is a racecar driver from Auckland, New Zealand. He races midgets and sprint cars in New Zealand, Australia and the ...
Although his limited budget kept him racing close to hometown, Wolfe often raced several nights a week. He was a 2003 finalist for the National Sprint Car Poll Rookie of the Year as well as a runner-up for the Williams Grove Speedway Rookie of the Year. [1] On July 9, 2004, at Williams Grove Speedway, Wolfe won his first sprint car race.
Crosskart (also cross car, sprint car, kart cross or off-road kart) is a type of kart racing that takes place on autocross, rallycross, dirt oval or ice racing tracks instead of on paved tracks. Competitions take place in classes that are based on cylinder volume (85 cc, 125 cc, 250 cc, or 650 cc).
The Ohsweken Speedway is a 0.375 miles (0.604 km) dirt track in the village of Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada.Ohsweken’s weekly Friday night racing program runs from May to September each year, featuring 360 Sprint Cars, Crate Sprint Cars, Thunder Stocks, and Mini Stocks, while the season finishes each year with the annual Northern Sprint Car Nationals.