MIDGET CAR RACE
SATURDAY NIGHT’S ATTRACTION A programme without parallel for thrills will be presented to patrons at Monica Park Speedway on Saturday night at 8 o’clock. The featured attraction will be the crack team of American and Australian midget car drivers who, fresh from a successful season at the Western Springs (Auckland) Speedway, where 15,000 have attended nightly, will be making their first appearance here. It is anticipated that a new thrill is in store for speedway patrons, for these demons of the track, driving cars which are of the real racing type (with water-cooled engines) and Which cost much more than modern sedans, exhibit skill that is simply amazing as they career round the track, negotiate bends at speed, and pass each other with inches to spare. Each member of the team is an international star, is thoroughly accustomed to the New Zealand tracks, and drives to win. Four cars will be seen in each race, with eight in the finals. The thrilling and spectacular nature of the contests can be gauged from the track being a quarter of a mile in circumference and 30 feet wide and the cars capable of tremendous speed. Nothing quite like these cars has been seen in Christchurch before.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 4
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