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Topic: Midget cars


  
  Midget cars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Midget cars are very small race cars with a very high power-to-weight ratio and typically using four-cylinder engines.
These sorts of events are sometimes held on weeknights so that popular and famous drivers from other, higher-profiled types of motor racing will be available to compete.
The high power and small size of the cars combine to make midget racing quite dangerous; for this reason modern midget cars are fully equipped with roll cages and other safety features.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Midget_cars   (202 words)

  
 Midget cars: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Midget cars are very small race cars Auto racing quick summary:
The high power and small size of the cars combine to make midget racing quite dangerous; modern midget cars are full equipped with roll cages and other safety features.
Midget cars as contemplated here are not to be confused with cars intended for use in a motor racing series for youths and designed to resemble tiny Champcars[For more, click on this link]; these are sometimes referred to as quarter-midgets.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/midget_cars.htm   (364 words)

  
 Motorsport Ireland :: Midget Cars
Midget Car Racing is a form of racing involving cars of smaller dimensions than normal.
The first Midget Car Races were held as far back as 1936 with the present day machines being derived from a type of vehicle known commonly in the USA as a Bantam Car.
Midget Car Racing is a very good and economical way to learn the concept of car control on slippery surfaces.
www.motorsportireland.com /index.cfm/loc/7-3.htm   (566 words)

  
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 Quarter Midget Information
This sport centers around small cars scaled down to one-fourth the size of full size midget race cars and driven on a 1/20 of a mile oval race track.
QMA (Quarter Midgets of America) is a national association that has been formed for the purpose of establishing rules concerning safety, car and engine specifications, racing program format, rules of conduct and general track operation.
Quarter Midget tracks are designed specifically for 1/4 midgets and must conform to QMA specs of approximately 1/20 mile.
www.awesomeaj.com /FreePage2.htm   (978 words)

  
 OA Online Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The Bud Outlaw Midget Spring Nationals held at Midessa Speedway last weekend was such an event, drawing a capacity crowd.
Midget racing is said to be a pure form of auto racing beginning in 1933.
Another team from Oklahoma City came with two cars and three generations: Jim Bean is car owner and father of one of the drivers, Taron Bean.
www.oaoa.com /sports/racin042502.htm   (415 words)

  
 The History of Quarter Midget Racing in N. America - VINTAGE ARTICLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The racing is limited to the youngsters (both boys and girls) between the ages of 5 and 15, but the father or mother, as crew chief, and mother father in the timer/scorer tower also play a very important role.
A couple of kids driving their cars on the street were invited to a vacant lot to participate with other youngsters in some informal races.
Many of these cars were sold through a large department store, and soon after many clubs across the country adopted similar engine and car specifications as those of the Quarter Roadster Association.
globalvillagesquare.com /quartemidgets.htm   (2456 words)

  
 Classic Motorsports: Project Cars: MG Midget
With the underside of the car is finished, we've flipped it right side up again and are working on the other rusty areas.
The car is now a bare shell surrounded by boxes of parts on shelves and a pile of fenders and doors in the corner.
In a further effort to prove to you guys that we really are British car people and not Miata people (I have never owned a Miata, but have owned 14 British cars over the years and still have three right now), I got started on our MG Midget project car yesterday.
www.classicmotorsports.net /projects/MGmidget.php   (2833 words)

  
 Call it li'l NASCAR
Quarter midget racing, which lets drivers as young as 5 on the track, is becoming the Little League of auto racing.
Quarter midget racing -- a sport that gives kids ages 5 to 16 a chance to compete -- is quickly becoming the most popular way to groom a future NASCAR star.
Since quarter midget cars are built for left turns, the sport has become a training ground for NASCAR, which, of course, runs most races counter-clockwise around its tracks.
www.startribune.com /332/story/419750.html   (526 words)

  
 Watson Racing Team - Vintage Midget - Friend's Cars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The cars pictured below are "relevant" cars to this web site and in their own way are a wealth of information to a restorer of a similar car.
Take a moment and view the cars and when applicable, contact their owners.
The car ran with B.C.R.A. and U.S.A.C., it was the first car Pete Baraldi ever sponsored with Lloyd Hemman driving.
www.teamwatsononline.com /wrt/friendscars.htm   (283 words)

  
 UARA - The Beginning
The majority of midget racing cars at a given event getting a small percentage of the purse pushed several individuals to look at the formation of a racing association for so-called "B Class" cars.
With the arrival of the Kurtis Kraft, Offenhauser engine-powered midget, a whole variety of midget cars and various power plants seemed to become almost obsolete over night with the KK/Offy cars pretty much dominating feature races and the drivers of these cars taken away large portions of the posted purse.
With local weekly midget racing also taking place at Blue Island's Raceway Park, under the direction of the Jenin Brothers, Nick and Pete, and also at Soldier Field, Ray Lankheim of Chicago won the second UARA feature event at Hanson Park on June 6.
www.umara.com /midgethistory/1947/uarabeginning.htm   (1631 words)

  
 SPT-SPEED.x2
They race modified midget cars for fun, a checkered flag and some feminine bragging rights in a male-dominated sport.
We just recently put a wing on it and turned it into a wing car, and she won the first race she was in.
Some 300 cars and drivers from all over the country will be entered for the four-day event.
www.chron.com /content/houston/yourtown/zone7/95/07/05/car.html   (799 words)

  
 The Original MGTD Midget
While the MG Car Company created a simple little sports car, it was really the aftermarket industry and enthusiasts surrounding it, that made the TD, and even the sports car craze, what it is today.
Some are of period cars, a rumored to be unrestored 1951 MGTD, other unrestored pictures, my restoration pictures, some MG event pictures such as GoFs and rallies, pictures of my own car over time, MGTD toys, models, and various interesting (not necessarily original) MGTD's that I have seen over the years.
It was a wonderful opportunity to see cars in various states of originality, across a number of years.
www.mgcars.org.uk /mgtd   (3760 words)

  
 SCRAFAN.COM - Pomona Valley Quarter Midgets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Quarter Midget Racing is a family oriented sport for children of ages 5-16.
The cars are ΒΌ- scale Midget race cars and feature four wheel independent suspension and full roll cages.
Quarter Midget Racing has been around for a number of years and many Quarter Midget Racers have gone on to many other venues of racing.
www.scrafan.com /pvqma/main.html   (195 words)

  
 United States Automobile Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This term, which sounds rather generic, in fact became a term of art describing a car built to be used in the highest level of USAC racing.
For a while there was a separate series of specifications for Championship cars designed to be run on dirt, rather than paved, tracks.
USAC also became the sanctioning body for many lower levels of motor racing, including sports cars, sprint cars, midget cars, and others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Automobile_Club   (1140 words)

  
 Motorsport.com: News channel
NAMARS, the largest Championship Midget Car sanctioning body in the world, and ARDC, America's oldest Championship Midget Car sanction at 63 years strong, will come together with their signature series for their only clash event of the season.
In 2000, Mark Freeland won the inaugural midget car event, which was a stand-alone ARDC show, while Rob Chaney won the wingless sprint portion.
However, in recent years a lack of midget races in the area has forced the younger fans to watch midgets on television, or travel into Indiana or central Pa. to the nearest dirt tracks for midgets.
www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=94993   (856 words)

  
 USAC WINNERS AT HAWKEYE DOWNS FRIDAY
The event, featuring both USAC Sprint Cars and Midget Cars, is the biggest pavement open wheel event in Iowa Motorsports history.
Tracy Hines, who holds the Hawkeye Downs USAC Sprint Car and Midget Car track records, won at Nazareth, PA Sunday, April 19.
An open USAC Sprint car and Midget car practice will be held from 5pm-8pm.
www.hawkeyedownsspeedway.com /042902newsrelease.htm   (261 words)

  
 Born-again MG Midget March 2006 Car Review - CarPoint Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
AN suggests the born-again Midget would be marketed by the UK-based Kimber consortium, which comprises former execs from Lotus, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz and McLaren.
It is believed the reborn Midget could debut at the Geneva motor show in March 2007, and Kimber is reportedly eyeing production volumes of 7000 cars next year and 11,000 annually by the end of the decade.
Although the basic architecture of the smart roadster will survive unscathed in the Midget, a conventional manual gearbox is tipped to replace the former's six-speed sequential unit.
carpoint.ninemsn.com.au /car-review/1642376.aspx   (416 words)

  
 QuarterMidgets.com
Quarter Midget National Champions are honored at the USAC 48th Champions Night.
Quarter Midget racing is a sport where kids can strap in and drive a quarter scale size open wheel midget race car.
The Ohio Indoor Event (click here for results) netted over 290 cars even though the Northeast was hosting the MotorSports Show in Ft Washington, Pa and Tulsa, OK was hosting the 20th annual Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, that included the quartermidgets Dirt Nationals event.
www.quartermidgets.com   (4421 words)

  
 Western Midget Cars
The 2001 USAC Western racing season begins this Saturday night as the WorldCom Western Midget Cars and TQ Midget Cars invade the 1/3-mile dirt Bakersfield (CA) Speedway for a "doubleheader' program of racing events.
A 20-lap TQ and 30-lap Midget Car feature are planned, following complete prelims and defending Western series champions Wally Pankratz (Midget Cars) and J.J. Ercse (TQ Midgets) are expected to be on hand.
The Bakersfield openers precede by one week the Pennzoil Copper World Indy 200 events at Phoenix, AZ, in which the Western Midget Car Series is involved.
www.midgetracing.com /western_midget.htm   (202 words)

  
 Bugeye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
dangerous modern midget cars are full equipped with roll cages and other safety features.
Midget cars as contemplated here are not bugeye to be confused with cars intended for.
Whether you need a performance part or accessory for your Mg Midget car or truck,.
midget-car.ikimet.be /bugeye.html   (695 words)

  
 Midget Race Cars For Sale - Cars Stop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
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www.dukeofwellington.ca /midget-race-cars-for-sale.html   (363 words)

  
 Swebe and Robardie, Cars/Sweden, Konditori 100s Garage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Racing car driver Sven Andersson and baker Bengt Peterson built two midget racing cars in the mid 40s.
In 1966 Swebe produced five Formula 3 racing cars, which were copies of Brabham BT 15.
After a while it was clear that these cars were less successful and more expensive in use than the original, and they seemingly were not used for so many seasons.
www.granfoss.net /arne/k100e/bilar/carmakes/k1casweb.htm   (302 words)

  
 More on Project Kimber: New MG "Midget" Could Arrive Next Year - Jalopnik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
That car, a version of the discontinued Smart roadster, will wear the MG brand founded by Cecil Kimber in 1924 and could be called Midget in honor of that erstwhile sports car.
Kimber’s plan looks like it may be the most promising of various schemes hatched to bring back the Sunbeam (possibly fraudulent), Austin Healey, Triumph, Marcos (ok, that one’s up and running) and AC Cars (don’t ask).
Secret cars, concept cars, flying cars, vintage cars, tricked-out cars, red cars, fl cars, blonde cars – sometimes, cars just because of the curve of a hood.
www.jalopnik.com /cars/news/more-on-project-kimber-new-mg-midget-could-arrive-next-year-161819.php   (324 words)

  
 Ford Racing: Team Ford Racing News
The USAC Ford Focus Midget Cars will make their initial appearance on Belleville's quarter-mile dirt oval on July 29, while the USAC National Midget Cars compete on July 30-31.
Among those who may compete are USAC's 2003 Ford Focus Midget Car Champions Robbie Ray of Davenport, Iowa (Indiana Series), Todd Hunsaker of Chino Hills, Calif. (California South Series) and Josh Lakatos of Pasadena, Calif. (California North Series), plus stars of USAC's brand new Carolina Ford Focus Series.
Four drivers who scored USAC Midget Car victories in 2003 also competed in Ford Focus events, namely J.J. Yeley, Bobby East, Josh Wise and Michael Lewis.
www.fordracing.com /news/detail?article=23789   (452 words)

  
 Cars: 07/29/05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
I just did a Google search on vintage midget cars and then had many of vintage midget cars sites to choose from.
Why not take advantage of all the info that is on the web about vintage midget cars.
The right used car rating and reviews for you is literally a point and click away.
www.my-cars.net /archives/2005_07_29_index.php   (808 words)

  
 Triumph Spitfire vs. MG Midget - Ultimatecarpage.com forums
Which of these two cars do you perfer or think is better.
For track use there is a LOT more experience and parts for the Midget.
My knowledge on these two cars is not great but from seeing them both in my opinion, i perfur the MG.
www.ultimatecarpage.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3299   (267 words)

  
 Southern Midget Racing Series-SMRS-point standings, photos of cars,
This is the first show for the Mighty Midgets at Salina and we would like to thank Chuck and Teresa Fairchild for bringing the SMRS to Salina.
With the Kansas Midget Classic growing every year, this is another of the major Midget Races of the year.
With many new young stars and cars coming to the SMRS along with many of the top veteran drivers in the country that already compete in the Series, this is going to be one of the most competitive years in Midget Racing that anyone has seen for awhile.
www.smrsmidgets.com   (1194 words)

  
 Race car, nascar race car, race car for sale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
In early car racing the engine and tires of the race car were considered.
For the race-car research project, likely car designs were generated and then tested using a.
The most evolved car was then tested in a race against a.
www.vanforcar.com /race-car.html   (325 words)

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