Midget Car Racing Bridgett Derek
Midget Car Racing Bridgett Derek I t was by chance that the author stumbled across a long lost program for the opening meeting of Hanley Car Speedway for 21 July 1938. Motor sport had been the…
Specifikacia Midget Car Racing Bridgett Derek
Midget Car Racing Bridgett Derek
I t was by chance that the author stumbled across a long lost program for the opening meeting of Hanley Car Speedway for 21 July 1938. Motor sport had been the preserve of the rich and glamorous, but now the ordinary man could build a car and race it on a shoestring budget. The program had been hidden away in family papers for almost sixty years and it sparked an enduring interest in Midget Car Speedway.
Although a short-lived craze that hit the UK during the 1930s, midget car racing was an incredible motor phenomenon with some races and events attracting over 60,000 people from all over the country. It was the start of motor racing as we know it today and without the development of midget car racing, we perhaps would not have seen the Formula Three, Formula Ford and other series that we take for granted today. Derek Bridgett's Midget Car Racing chronicles this bizarre but immersive