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The event was held on the 605 Speedway, the first time the event was held on pavement. He had over 100 victories in midget cars in 1984 when he was inducted in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame. [3] He won the 1985 National Midget championship a year after his induction. Kenyon won the Indianapolis Speedrome midget car track title in ...
Bob Swanson at the Legion Ascot Speedway in Los Angeles in 1935 William Clay Ford Sr.'s 1939 Ford Midget Racer on display at Stahls Automotive Collection in Chesterfield Township, Michigan A 1969 Harry Turner midget race car. The first organized Midget car race happened on June 4, 1933. [4] The sports' first regular weekly program began on ...
Bill Zaring (August 24, 1917 – May 19, 2003) [1] was an American racecar driver who raced midget cars in Southern California. [2] A native of Southern California, he was born in North Hollywood . Racing
He announced his retirement from all racing but the Indianapolis 500 after the season. [3] He decided to return full-time for the 1954 season. He was involved in a midget car wreck in Chicago, suffering head injuries after striking a concrete wall. He was in critical condition for several days. [3]
Carter started racing midgets at the 1/5 mile dirt track in the west side of Fresno while attending Fresno State University. He was one of six drivers who went to Western Springs Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand in 1937. He won the first ever midget car race at that track. The car he drove still exists in a museum in Auckland.
In fact, Mike Winslow, curator at the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing and first-time expo attendee, owns the three-quarter midget car driven by legend Mario Andretti when he won at the Teaneck ...
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. [3] He captured the 1946 BCRA championship for Jack London. He won the 1947 and 1948 BCRA championships for George Bignotti.
Len Duncan (July 25, 1911 Brooklyn, New York – August 1, 1998 Lansdale, Pennsylvania) was an American race car driver. Duncan raced midget cars in seven decades from 1920s until the 1980s. During World War II, received the honor of being assigned as President Harry S. Truman's driver during one of his visits to England. [1]