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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. There is a worldwide tour and national midget tours in the United States, Australia ...
Quarter midget racing is a form of automobile racing. The cars are approximately one-quarter ( ⁄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 ⁄20 mile (264 ...
15 April 1933 (age 91) DeKalb, Illinois, United States. Mel Kenyon (born April 15, 1933, in DeKalb, Illinois) is a former midget car driver. He is known as the "King of the Midgets", [ 1] "Miraculous Mel" [ 2] and "Champion of Midget Auto Racing." [ 3] The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America says "Many consider him to be midget car racing's ...
Rich Vogler. Richard Frank Vogler[ 1] (July 26, 1950 – July 21, 1990) was an American champion sprint car and midget car driver. He was nicknamed "Rapid Rich". [ 2] He competed in the Indianapolis 500 five times, and his best finish was eighth in 1989 .
Frank Kurtis. Frank Peter Kurtis (born Kuretich; [ 1] January 25, 1908 – February 17, 1987) was an American racing car designer. He designed and built midget cars, quarter-midgets, sports cars, sprint cars, Indy cars, and Formula One cars. He was the founder of Kurtis Kraft .
An Offenhauser sprint "midget" racer. The Offenhauser engine, familiarly known as the "Offy", was an overhead cam monoblock 4-stroke internal combustion engine developed by Fred Offenhauser and Harry Arminius Miller. [ 4] Originally, it was sold as a marine engine. In 1930 a four-cylinder 151 cu in (2.47 L) Miller engine installed in a race car ...
Powertrain. Engine. 1-cylinder air-cooled. Transmission. 2-speed automatic. The King Midget was a micro car produced between 1946 and 1970 by the Midget Motors Corporation. The King Midget company started out by offering a kit to build a car, but soon added completely assembled cars and later only offered completed cars.
Saugus Speedway is a 1/3 mile racetrack in Saugus, Santa Clarita, California on a 35-acre (140,000 m 2) site. The track hosted one NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event in 1995, which was won by Ken Schrader. [2] Schrader became the first NASCAR driver to win in a race in all three of the sanctioning body's major series, following previous wins ...