Midget car racing started in the mid 1930s on the West Coast and soon became a fast-growing sport and attraction in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Q: Greg, I enjoy your nostalgia columns and went to many midget auto races when I was young on the 1950s. I saw races in New York at Rochester War Memorial (Arena) and remember drivers like Len ...

Bob Cicconi, driving a midget car for Angelillo,finished second in a race at Winchester Speedway in Indiana. At the time, neither knew the winner was going to move even faster through the racing ...

NASCAR champion Kyle Busch is expanding his racing career by entering midget car racing and competing in the Chili Bowl Nationals with FloSports.

In Indiana, the only sport held in higher esteem than sprint car racing is basketball. The country's national sprint car series is based in Indianapolis, where the sport is viewed as a stepping ...

Midget car racing started in the mid-1930s on the West Coast and became a fast-growing sport and attraction in the 1940s and early 1950s.

By 1949, stock car racing replaced midget cars and in August of that year, an overcrowded bleacher collapsed, injuring 37.

Midget racing started in California in the 1930s, but it was most popular in the decades after World War II. The first midget auto races appeared in Eastern Iowa in 1946 at Ce-Mar Acres.

Ray Richards, 76, a driver of midget race cars in the Midwest from 1934 to 1952, held both the national indoor and outdoor midget race car championship titles. He subsequently worked as a service m… ...

NASCAR champion Kyle Busch is expanding his racing career by entering midget car racing and competing in the Chili Bowl Nationals with FloSports.