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Quarter Midget Racing...
Quarter Midgets of America is a non-profit organization with over 2,500 family memberships and approximately 4,000 drivers. There are 13 Regions in our organization and 50 Quarter Midget Clubs Nationwide. This sport is definitely the ‘best kept secret' you'll ever come across.
QMA is a family oriented sport that involves racing in special prepared cars. The cars, rules and safety procedures are designed specifically for kids. They race on oval tracks approximately 1/20 of a mile. A child who is 5 to 16 years of age can race. Safety features include full roll cages, multi-point seat harnesses, full face helmets, and other gear. This sport has fewer injuries than little-league football. The Quarter Midget Association is constantly reviewing and evaluating safety rules to ensure that quarter midget racing remains a safe competitive sport. The racing environment is about children and family. Not only do kids learn valuable skills and sportsmanship, but they also make new friends. Mom and Dad will make new friends too.
Quarter Midgets...
A Quarter Midget car is a scaled-down version of an actual midget racer, approximately 1/4 scale. The cars are built around a tubular frame and are fully suspended with springs or torsion bars and shocks. The bodies are fiberglass, usually painted to the drivers preference. Surrounding the driver is a chrome-moly roll cage and nerf bars. The engines are single cylinder and are manufactured by Honda, Continental, Briggs & Stratton, and Deco. In the motors stock configuration they produce between 2.5 & 4 horse power. Modifications in the upper classes allow these engines to reach several times the stock horse power. These air-cooled 4-cycle engines are reliable and can produce as much as 10,000 rpm's in their more highly modified forms.
(Content from Quarter
Midget Association of America)
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (July 17,
2003)
Beginning on Saturday, July 19, more than 700 Quarter Midget race cars
will begin unloading at the Mini-Indy Speedway Quarter Midget Track
located at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. The occasion
is the Quarter Midgets of America Eastern Grand National Event, hosted
by the Central Indiana Quarter Midget Association.
Quarter Midgets of America is the largest sanctioning body for Quarter
Midgets, with its business office at the United States Auto Club. Each
year racers aged 5 to 16 qualify for the Grand National Events at States
races held throughout the country over Memorial Day weekend.
"We are excited to have the QMA Eastern Grands here in Indy this
year," said Rollie Helmling, President of USAC. "These young
men and women are the future of the sport of open wheel racing, and I
would encourage all the open wheel fans to take an opportunity to go the
Fairgrounds and see the future stars of USAC." Helmling continued.
The QMA Grands at the Indiana State Fairgrounds takes the track at the
Mini-Indy Speedway each morning at 9:00 AM from July 20 to the 26th. The
young racers will practice on Sunday and Monday, qualify on Tuesday and
begin racing on Wednesday. The A-Main events for all 15 QMA classes will
be held on Saturday, July 26.
For more information, contact the QMA National Office, located at the
United States Auto Club, 317-248-9778.
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