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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).
The track is billed as the "World's Fastest Quarter Mile Oval." The current track record was set by Jeff Bloom in a 410 extreme winged sprint car on August 21, 2010 at a time of 9.908 seconds. [ 1 ] This is the first lap record under 10 seconds on a quarter mile oval track of any type, breaking Anderson Speedway 's 10.28 second lap record. [ 1 ]
The track was built with midgets in mind, as a 1/4 mile paved oval. Along with midgets, the track branched out to modifieds as the staple of racing for nearly twenty years. Venditti had his own vision for the future of auto racing in the United States, and he used his track to promote that vision. In 1980, the track was expanded to a 1/3 mile ...
1/4 mile NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series: Green Mountain Raceway: Milton: Vermont: 1962-1972 Asphalt 1/4 Mile Green Valley Raceway: North Richland Hills: Texas: 1963-1984 Asphalt 1/4 Mile Kansas City International Raceway: Kansas City: Missouri: 1967-2011 Asphalt 1/4 Mile Memphis International Raceway: Millington: Tennessee: 1987 Concrete ...
The park consists of two tracks: a 1 ⁄ 2-mile tri-oval and a 1 ⁄ 4-mile oval. Originally the 1 ⁄ 4-mile oval was a 1 ⁄ 5-mile oval and the 1 ⁄ 4-mile was added later. The 1 ⁄ 5-mile is still there but only used for Davis Mini Cups and quarter midgets. The tri-oval seats 8,500 fans with room for 28 RVs, while the 1/4 mile track seats ...
Originally constructed as a 1/4-mile semi-banked clay dirt oval by track founder and promoter Earl Baltes, Eldora was enlarged to a 3/8-mile length and later to the "half-mile" standard required by the United States Auto Club (USAC) for national championship events featuring the stars of the Indianapolis 500.
Half-mile track closed at some point. A 1/4-mile dirt track was built at the same spot to hold local races. Coastal Speedway 0.500-mile dirt oval Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: 1956–1957 Replaced by Myrtle Beach Speedway. Now a commercial district. Columbia Speedway: 0.500-mile dirt oval Columbia, South Carolina: Arclite 200 (1962)
The now defunct Ascot Speedway featured 1/2 mile and 1/4 mile dirt oval tracks, and Irwindale Speedway features 1/2 mile and 1/3 mile concentric paved oval tracks. Pocono Raceway once had a 3/4 mile oval which connected to the main stretch, and circled around the garage area.