page_title: Sprint car racing
section_title: Midget cars
hierarchical_section_title: Sprint car racing / Midget cars
caption_attribution_description: This image was taken at the 2006 season finale Badger Midget (BMARA) race at Charter Raceway Park near w:Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, USA. #3 is Brandon Waelti. I took this image myself, and cropped it.
context_page_description: Sprint cars are high-powered race cars designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks. Sprint car racing is popular primarily in the United States of America and Canada, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
  Sprint cars have very high power-to-weight ratios, with weights of approximately 1,400 pounds and power outputs of over 900 horsepower which gives them a power-to-weight ratio besting that of contemporary F1 cars. Typically, they are powered by a naturally aspirated, methanol injected over-head valve V8 with an engine displacement of 410 cubic inches capable of engine speeds approaching 9000 rpm. Depending on the mechanical setup and the track layout, these cars can achieve speeds in excess of 160 miles per hour. A lower budget and very popular class of sprint cars uses 360 cubic inch engines that produce approximately 700 horsepower. Sprint cars do not utilize a transmission, they have an in or out gearbox and quick change rear differentials for occasional gearing changes. As a result, they do not have electric starters and require a push to start them.
context_section_description: Midget cars are smaller versions of a full size sprint car, normally non-wing only. Midgets date back to the 1930s as a very common form of sprint car racing, still very popular today and also sanctioned by USAC. They are powered by 4-cylinder engines developing around 350 horsepower (260 kW), but are otherwise very similar to their larger cousins.
caption: Midget Sprint Car
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