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Midget Car Monday - Duane Carter
Duane Carter... an American racecar driver. During his
career he
raced midget cars, sprint cars, and Indy cars. 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 was a consistent winner on the Nutley board track in 1939
and also won the 1940 Detroit VFW Motor Speedway title,
the 1942 championship
at Sportsman Park in Cleveland.
He captured a 500 lap victory in his midget car
at the 1947
Los Angeles Coliseum Motordome after Danny Oakes
was initially
declared the winner.
He also was co-founder of the United States Auto Club
after
the American Automobile Association pulled out of racing in 1955.
He included 11 starts in the Indianapolis 500, his best
performance as a starter at IndyCar Races was in 1952, when he drove the
Belanger Motors Special to a fourth-place finish.
He was third in 1953 as a relief driver for Sam Hanks. He
drove in the race for the last time in 1963 at the age of 50. His son...
Pancho, also was a racing driver who was named rookie of the year at the
Indianapolis 500 in 1974.
Duane Carter
May 5, 1913 Fresno, California – March 7, 1993 Indianapolis,
Indiana
Midget Car Monday - Walt Faulkner
Walt Faulkner, an American racing driver from Tell, Texas.
Born on February 16, 1918, moved to Milledgeville, Georgia
at the age of two-and-a-half, and to Lake Wales, Florida at the age of eight.
He
then moved to Los Angeles, California in 1936. Faulkner competed mainly in the
National Championship and in stock car races.
In 1950 Faulkner became the first rookie to win pole
position at the Indianapolis 500.
Walt died April 22, 1956 after a qualifying crash at a USAC
Stock Car event in Vallejo, California. Earlier in his career, Faulkner raced
motorcycles and then midget cars for the Edelbrock dirt track racing team. He
had great success in midget car racing and was inducted into the National
Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2007.
Faulkner was also inducted into the West Coast Stock Car
Hall of Fame in 2006.
Bullet Joe Garson...
Allen Heath... 500 mile midget race winner riverside Ca. 1958,
1956 URA midget champion. 46 & 47 Northwest midget champion with 2 hands, also won 10 USAC midget features With one hand!
Bullet Joe Garson 1958 Turkey night Grand Prix winner...
Midget Car Racing...
races of relatively short distances... usually 2.5 to 25 miles / 4 to 40 km. Some say born on June 4, 1933...when the first organized midget race
was held in Sacramento, California. Others Say...
Officially born August 10, 1933 at the Loyola High School Stadium in Los Angeles. Most events are staged inside arenas, most notably at these days is the Chilli Bowl held in early January at the Expo Square Pavilion in Tulsa, Oklahoma USA...
Midget cars... also called Speedcars are small race cars with a very high power-to-weight ratio and typically use four cylinder engines ( 300 to 400 horsepower - weigh 1,000 / 450 kg)
Other major tracks in the United States operating in the first half of the twentieth century include Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and Ascot Park near Los Angeles...
Officially born August 10, 1933 at the Loyola High School Stadium in Los Angeles. Most events are staged inside arenas, most notably at these days is the Chilli Bowl held in early January at the Expo Square Pavilion in Tulsa, Oklahoma USA...
Midget cars... also called Speedcars are small race cars with a very high power-to-weight ratio and typically use four cylinder engines ( 300 to 400 horsepower - weigh 1,000 / 450 kg)
Other major tracks in the United States operating in the first half of the twentieth century include Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and Ascot Park near Los Angeles...
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