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Post by youtubefiend on Feb 27, 2010 13:35:51 GMT 1
IMO midget car racing never took off in a big way before and after the war because it tried to duplicate bikes speedway with its racing format. I am sure it would be a major motor sport in the UK if it had not only concentrated on the cinder and shale tracks but also used the meeting programme format that has been a success elsewhere in the world.
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Post by rodpashley on Feb 27, 2010 14:20:09 GMT 1
Youtubefiend, can you describe the Midget racing format the rest of the world uses please?
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Post by youtubefiend on Feb 28, 2010 11:24:21 GMT 1
Well never seen any of it at first hand. Sadly just GP midgets. My idea of how races are run in other countries is about 12 cars in a race, a couple of grid qualifiers, then a final, races over various distances - 10, 15, 15 laps, Most by rolling start. I have nothing against the old speedway league-style racing. They were okay but there should also have been longer distance races with more cars in them at the meetings as well. The trouble now is where are the cars and drivers to give us something like this on the speedway tracks.
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Post by tobyhalter on May 3, 2011 21:48:13 GMT 1
British midget car racing probably lost its way so to speak when it ceased trying to me a speedway sport, which is really is, and instead became just another formula added to the stock car-hot rod-banger race scene. However, the fact that the owner of all the speedway midget cars virtually cannibalised them to pieces without any replacements of any worth emerging was also a contributing factor. Mike Parker's efforts with his 500cc (or was it 600cc) midgets did carry on speedway links into the mid-1960s. But after that - save for the brief emergence of the Progressive midgets at Stoke, late 1980s or was it early 1990s, the formula in the Uk has drifted away from its old speedway origins.
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Post by rodpashley on May 4, 2011 1:22:33 GMT 1
Speedway Sport Midgets are......just try to convince Speedway promoters of the fact....
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