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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 ...
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 ...
Kurtis sold the midget car portion of the business to Johnny Pawl in the late 1950s, and the quarter midget business to Ralph Potter in 1962. Frank Kurtis was the first non-driver inducted in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame (U.S.). Zeke Justice and Ed Justice of the Justice Brothers both worked at Kurtis-Kraft after World War II ...
Nationality. American. Born. Ron Tripp. ( 1953-08-13) August 13, 1953 (age 70) Costa Mesa, California. Ron "Sleepy" Tripp is an American Hall of Fame midget car driver. Tripp got his nickname as a youth when he would fall asleep in his quarter midget car while waiting for his next race to start.
Agabashian competed in his first midget car race in his teens. His first championship was the 1937 Northern California Racing Association against such drivers as Duane Carter, Lynn Deister, and Paul Swedberg. He captured the 1946 BCRA championship for Jack London. He won the 1947 and 1948 BCRA championships for George Bignotti.
Landy Scott, Christmas 2006. Landis George Scott (June 21, 1919 – November 3, 2014) was an American midget car racing champion. He also served as the President of Badger Midget Auto Racing Association from 1951 to 1959. On July 28, 2024, Landy was inducted into the Badger Midget Auto Racing's Hall of Fame.
Belleville High Banks. / 39.832086; -97.625794. The Belleville High Banks is a half mile (0.8 km) dirt racing oval near Belleville, Kansas at the North Central Kansas Fairgrounds. The first recorded race happened at the track in 1910. It has held races on American Automobile Association (AAA), United States Auto Club (USAC), World of Outlaws ...
Barkhimer was a 21-year-old newlywed when he went with his wife to car races at Emeryville, California. It was his first time attending midget car races, and the third time he attended a racing event. He was puzzled what circus midgets had to do with racing. [1] He was hooked and he wanted to race a midget racecar. He was unable to obtain a car.