MIDGET CAR RACING

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22336, 25 February 1938, Page 5

MIDGET CAR RACING

$ ATTRACTION.AT MONICA PARK A programme without parallel for thrills will be presented at Monica Park Speedway ito-morrow 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. The drivers will be Paul Swcdbcrg. Beale Simmons, Duane Carter,. Vino Podurgiol, Swede Lindskog (America), Archie Tuckott, George Bcavis (Australia), and Jerry Mathison (New Zealand).

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 those cars has been seen in Christchurch before.