Another cool midget website

[JimmyK]

Wandered into this site with nice photos:
http://justmidgets.homestead.com/index.html

enjoy

[Olen McGuire]

Thanks Jimmy for this great racing site. Another one to spend hours on,and especially if your a midget fan. Those Aussies have always had their share of racing greats. I particularly enjoyed the american input of the site.
You can go directly there by clicking the little race car.627 (http://justmidgets.homestead.com/Americaninput.html)

[webby]

Wandered into this site with nice photos:
http://justmidgets.homestead.com/index.html

enjoyWow! That's great site. If you know those guys let them know how much we like their site and tell them they are welcome to come here and share stories if they like.

[Quick Time]

Jimmy,

Wow, thanks for the great midget site.....The content will take hours to review, let alone really take it all in. You really offered us a wonderful link. Quality all the way.

Chuck

[VintageBuzz]

Jimmy,
Wow, thanks for the great midget site.....The content will take hours to review, let alone really take it all in. You really offered us a wonderful link. Quality all the way.
Chuck
Chuck has said it best! I've already started logging my hours. Only talked to one local driver who has "gone down under" to race his sprint car while the rest of us were shoveling snow off our driveways up here. He loved racing with the Aussies/Kewies...and his wife...she hated shoveling their driveway by herself. JimmyK, thanks for sharing with us! ~VB

[actionad 14]

Another great Vintage Club site in Australia; Historic Speedway Assn of Aust.
Click on the CLUB GALLERY, and EVENT PICS pages for a good look at what is going on
down here. Midgets, Sprintcars. Modifieds.

[indybigjohn]

Sorry I never got to Australia. I must confess that the midgets were my favorite show in the 15 years I spent at IRP. At .686-mile, some might say the track was too big for them, but I thought it was great. They had a lot more track to play with, and it was fearsomely fast.

I remember one night when a now very well known racer made his first start on that big oval in a USAC midget show. I had watched him since he was in TQs, and I happened to be in his pit when he came in from his first practice.

His comment after taking the helmet off?

"KEEERIST this place is fast!!!"

[indybigjohn]

I should have added that this corresponded to my first visit to Daytona in the 60s, and the same warning should have been given to first-time drivers.

In a rookie meeting, Darel Dieringer told those on hand, "When you get up to speed, and head down into turn one, be very, very careful. You're gonna be going 20 or 30 miles an hour faster than you've ever gone in your life."