DIRT-TRACK RACING.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19391, 17 August 1928, Page 4

DIRT-TRACK RACING.

POPULAR IN ENGLAND. oar racing has made a atart in ; England, <ahd promises to catch the public fancy, judged by the success of the first meeting—held there recently—when hundreds of people were turned away at the gates, in America where they have been at the dirt-track game tor many years, raoing; on an earth ders has ? been: brought to a ,fiae ;art.: This form' of oar contest /provides- au the thrills of road raoing in the restricted area of an oval* or circular track, and, provided that grandstands are properly arranged—as they general, ly are—the spectators can see every incident in. a r race. The roar of the super-tuned cars hurtling .} round and skidding in the dust, the blackened, begoggled faces of the drivers and uiechanics.ttihe clouds of dust drifting with provide a: speotacJe;flUch as can 'rieyer Be'witnessed "on a cement or board track of the older type. The success of a participant in a race on the "dirt" , depends as much, jf not more, on the" skill of the driver as on the speed of the'car. 'Constantly,, as they tear round the bends in a more or less continuous drivers are experiencing narrow. escapes; aa overcbrrected skid may "send them crashing into the inner barrier of the oval. When passing a competitor at speed there is! the ever-present risk of becoming entangled with the wheels of another racer, while if a bend be taken too fast, the car, slithering in 4oose dust, will, be hurled by centrifugal force towards the outer edge, and may well end in overturning. Thus, there can be no doubt that dirt-track racing for cars is full of thrills, and the public will go with the same enthusiasm as it would flock to a cinema to see some thrilling film. The possibilities are that dirt-track raoing for cars bids fair to become an open-air amusement for the multitude.