Chili Bowl from Tulsa.....Direct TV channel 214, on now...7:30 Eastern time...Showing last year, non-wing right now...2016 racing starts at 8:30 to 12:30.

Better than Nascar, Basketball or Football....


WuzzFuzz

I'm glad you specified cars, otherwise you know this group!

Thanks for the heads up. I miss seeing midgets and sprints run.

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Dan
Ps 96 SWCA 2930 SWHF 524

I would think showing midgets racing cars would be politically incorrect today. I mean what is next midget bowling?

Now that you mention it, some years back the owner of the body shop that I wrote estimates at & I were sitting around talking about different types of racing we enjoyed. He mentioned he liked midget racing & the receptionist(a very pretty blonde lady)sniffed & said "How cruel"!

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Lounge Lizard Extraordinaire

There is a "Little" person Ricco Adreau...If I spelled his last name correctly...He won it last year...He's good+..He also races sprints on the west coast...He's good in those too.

Tony Stuart is there tonight...Earlier in the day, Tony got in the face of a heckler there....

Tulsa is a huge deal when it comes to racing in the winter months....Lots of big names from all different venues of racing.

Impossible to get tickets to it...They're sold out years in advance.

Enjoy....Now back to the tube...Hope I can stay awake for all of it.


WuzzFuzz

The last time I went I promised myself that next time I would take SCUBA gear in order to breathe.

It is fun to watch, however, if you can breathe in there.

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... a little behind in my work

You had my attention until I got to the parenthesis......

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Dean
SWCA #680 SWHF #446

At my age and knees the ah uh little cars would win.

Saw that on the local news. You'd think he'd be smart enough to let it go & just keep walking rather than run up the stands to confront the heckler... but no.

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Waiting for the break of day

I am a fan & wished I could have watched it but Mav tv is not on Dish network.

Direct TV channel 214 offers a variety of motorsports. Two types of
motorcycle competetion that are popular outside the US but have
never really very popular here are often shown on channel 214. Trials,
or observered Trials, as it is sometimes called, is competition involving
slow navigation of various obstacles. Speedway racing is a an intense
form of short track racing using specialized motorcycles that sorta
resemble early skinny tired motorcycles. Four bikes, four laps to a
heat, lots of crashes. 214 most often features the races on ice using
studded tires. If you like motorcycles check out channel 214 if you
have it available.

Ricco won again!!!!!! I told you he was good. AND HE IS A LITTLE PEOPLE. in a world of standard size people.

WuzzFuzz

What a great race. That young man can drive! It will be interesting to see how he does in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.

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Dan
Ps 96 SWCA 2930 SWHF 524

Had them years back at the Capital City race track.

Some had six's others v-8's but watching them go around the track on just three tires on the little quarter track was always fun.

Today I prefer the larger tracks and cars but will watch the midgets over the dirt cars.

I'm surprised mike from st pete hasn't commented in this thread.

Lot's of knowledge regarding this subject matter.

I always loved just looking at them midget racing cars.

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Doesn't hasta call me Johnson

Midget racers ain't what they used to be. Attached is My Dad in a V8 60 Ford powered midget.

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My Dad loved midget racing. He raced them all from full midgets, TQs and in the end Micro Midgets. Saturday nights in the summer was time to go racing. Great times always.

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All these years and I still have two pictures of your Dad, you were a lucky kid.

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Doesn't hasta call me Johnson

Yep I sure was/am.
The photos my friend labworm posted are of my Dad in a Champ Car later called Sprint Cars
Oddly the midget clubs wanted drivers with experience in bigger more powerful racers.

Amazing race!

Mike in St. Pete.

I remember those being called "Big Cars"...Champ cars also....The "Big" cars, being run on either a 1/2 mile or 1 mile track.

The midgets on 1/4 or 1/3 mile tracks.


All depended too on what part of the country a person came from, as to what they were called.

With your dad in the "Champ" car...That is a older one, still has the wire wheels....Also I see that it's a Flat Tail, so that kind of tells me it's a 37 or earlier car. The wire wheels went out in either 53 or 54, I can't remember which...Give or take a year or two. Another popular engine was the Model T with the Riley heads, and a pressure oiling system.

Of course they came on later,,,the Offy 270 for the big cars......No sound in the world like those..The smaller 110 Offy in the Kurtis midgets...****nning against the Ford 260's.


After the war, some of the "Big" cars ran Ranger air cooled aircraft engines.

If a person likes old Midgets and big cars, Belleville Kansas, when they have the old timers meet.


WuzzFuzz

Pitman NJ at the Alcyon Speedway in 1946. Where it started for my Dad. Most of Dad's midget racing was done in and around PA, NJ, NY and DE.

Seems like a car could outrun a somebody with short legs pretty quickly, no?

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