[Diana in Wisconsin]

Reminds me of why people go to watch Hockey matches, too.

“I went to a fight once and a hockey game broke out!”

I grew up in a town where Drag Races and racing ‘Midgets’ (carts bigger than Go-Carts, but with a roll cage) were all the rage. Don’t remember any drag race fatalities, but there were many with the midget racing - those things could easily flip and MANY ended up going through the fencing and into the stands.

Not sure if ‘Midgets’ is just a Midwestern thing; I don’t remember the guys I knew from school traveling any further than MI or IL or IN to race.

[tophat9000]

“Noy sure if ‘Midgets’ is just a Midwestern thing”

Lol ! He’ll no are you kidding. Grow up in Southern California in the late fifties early sixties every weekend Ascot in Gardena. Dirt track Oval and figure 8

My uncle and aunt both raced

Midgets Jalop aanything ..and destruction Derby

they later changed over to the go carts with the double mccullock engines

Parnelli Jones got his a start out at Ascot in Gardena

And all on TV ktla with Dick Lane.. Whooo Nelly!

[Blurb2350]

In the small Northern California town where I grew up we had weekly “hardtop” races out at the fairgrounds. I sometimes went with my grandparents. There was a crude metal roof over the stands and the noise was deafening. I attribute my tinnitus to those hardtops.

[PLMerite]

My father raced midgets after the war when they looked like this:

This isn't him though.