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National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame is a
Hall of FameA hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...
and museum for
midget carsMidget cars, also Speedcars in Australia, are very small race cars with a very high power-to-weight ratio and typically use four-cylinder engines.-Cars:Typically, these cars have 300 to 400 horsepower and weigh...
. The Hall of Fame is located at
Angell Park SpeedwayAngell Park Speedway has a 1/3 mile dirt racetrack located in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The track has been run by the city's fire department since 1903. Racing occurs every Sunday approximately Memorial Day until Labor Day. Special racing events and the weather may alter the schedule...
in
Sun Prairie, WisconsinSun Prairie is a city in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. A suburb of Madison it is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area. The 2010 US Census estimates the city's population to be 29,364. It is the sixth-fastest growing city in Wisconsin, and the fastest-growing among cities...
, and can be accessed during weekly Sunday races during the summer.
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- Fred Agabashian
Fred Agabashian was an Armenian-American racer of midget cars and Indy cars.-Midget car:...
- J.C. Agajanian
Joshua "J.C./Aggie" Agajanian was an influential figure in American motorsports history. He was a promoter and race car owner.- Early life :...
- Floyd Alvis
- Lloyd Axel
- Johnny Balch
- Johnny Baldwin
- Henry Banks
Henry Banks was an American midget car and "big car" driver.-Background:Henry Banks was born in England, but brought up in Royal Oak, Michigan. He was the son of an early European race-driver...
- Gary Bettenhausen
Gary Bettenhausen is a retired American auto racing driver. He was born in Blue Island, Illinois, raised in Tinley Park, Illinois, and currently resides in Monrovia, Indiana.-Racing family:...
- Tony Bettenhausen
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- Billy Betteridge
- J. Gordon Betz
- Tom Bigelow
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- George Bignotti
- Al Bonnell
- Ken Brenn (Ken Brenn, Sr.)
- Ken Brenneman
- Frank Burany
- Hank Butcher
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- Vito Calia
- Foster Campbell
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- Willard Cantrell
- Duane Carter
Duane Carter was an American racecar driver. He raced midget cars, sprint cars, and IndyCars. Carter was born in Fresno, California, and he died in Indianapolis, Indiana...
- Neal Carter
- Pancho Carter
Duane "Pancho" Carter, Jr. is a retired American race car driver. He is most famous for his participation in CART races.-Background:...
- Mike Caruso
- Danny Caruthers
- Doug Caruthers
- Jimmy Caruthers
Douglas "Jimmy" Caruthers was an American racecar driver from Anaheim, California. He raced midget cars, sprint cars, and IndyCars.-Midget car career:...
- Johnny Coy
- Art Cross
Art Cross was an American racecar driver. He was the first recipient of the Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Award in 1952.-Racing career:...
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- Jimmy Davies
Jimmy Davies was an American racecar driver in Champ cars and midgets. He was the second man to win three USAC National Midget Championships....
- Kevin Doty
- Pop Dreyer (Floyd Dreyer)
- Len Duncan
Len Duncan was an American race car driver. Duncan raced midget cars in seven decades from 1920s until the 1980s. During World War II, received the honor of being assigned as President Harry S. Truman's driver during one of his visits to England...
- Teddy Duncan
- Rex Easton
- Chris Economaki
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- Vic Edelbrock
Otis Victor Edelbrock, Sr. Otis Victor Edelbrock, Sr. Otis Victor Edelbrock, Sr....
- Don Edmunds
Don Edmunds was an American racecar driver and car builder.-Racing career:He changed the nose on his first Kurtis midget car from Kurtis' design to his own. Indy car builder Eddie Kuzma hired Edmunds to fix the dent in Jimmy Bryan’s car after the driver kicked the car. He had his first start at...
- Bill Engelhart
- Walt Faulkner
Walt Faulkner was an American racing driver from Tell, Texas, who moved to Milledgeville, Georgia at the age of two-and-a-half, and to Lake Wales, Florida at the age of eight. He then moved to Los Angeles, California in 1936. Faulkner competed mainly in the National Championship and in stock car...
- Jack Fox
John "Tiger" Linwood Fox , or Tiger Jack Fox as he was better known, was a colorful, hard punching, American light heavyweight boxer. Fox fought from 1928 to 1950....
- Stan Fox
Stan Fox was a United States open wheel race car driver. Fox was one of the last links between the midget car racing world and the Indianapolis 500.-Midget car career:...
- A.J. Foyt
- Joe Garson
- Fred Gerhardt
- Ernie Gesell
- Earl Gilmore
- Jeff Gordon
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- Cecil Green
Cecil Green was an American racecar driver from Dallas, Texas.-Racing career:Green won 34 races between 1948 and 1950 in Oklahoma and Missouri, and bunch more in Texas. He won the 1949 Oklahoma City and Southwest AAA titles. He won in seven different Offenhauser cars. Green place fourth in his...
- Bob Gregg
Robert Edmond "Bob" Gregg was an English professional footballer born in Ferryhill, County Durham, who played as an inside forward...
- Perry Grimm
Perry Grimm was an American racecar driver who raced midget cars in California and Australia.-midget car:Grimm drove midget cars for the Edelbrock dirt track racing team...
- Eddie Haddad
Eddie Haddad was a boxer primarily active in the 1940s in Manitoba and British Columbia. His first major international tournament was at the 1948 Olympic Games as a lightweight boxer...
- Emmet Hahn
- Sam Hanks
Sam Hanks was an American racecar driver who won the 1957 Indianapolis 500. He was a barnstormer, and raced midget and Champ cars.-Racing career:...
- Mel Hansen
Mel Hansen was an American racecar driver. Hansen was nicknamed the “Firecracker Kid” because he loved to throw the explosive devices under chairs and behind people who were gathered in groups...
- Gene Hartley
Leslie "Gene" Hartley was an American racecar driver. He was born and died in Roanoke, Indiana.Hartley was the son of midget car driver Ted Hartley, who competed into his 60s. "Auto racing is all I’ve ever known," Gene once said in an interview at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway...
- Allen Heath
- Bob Higman
- Bill Hill
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- Ron Hoettels
- Bill Holmes
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- Roscoe Hough (Pappy Hough)
- Ronney Householder
Ronney Householder was an American race car driver. He raced most of the year, in the Midwest in summer and the West Coast in the winter.-Racing career:...
- Dave Humphrey
- Parnelli Jones
Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones , is a retired American racing driver and racecar owner. He is most remembered for his 1963 Indianapolis 500 win, and almost winning the 1967 Indy 500 in a turbine car...
- Don Kenyon
- Mel Kenyon
Mel Kenyon is a former midget car driver. He is known as the "King of the Midgets", "Miraculous Mel", and "Champion of Midget Auto Racing." The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America says "Many consider him to be midget car racing's greatest driver ever." -Racing career:He attended his first auto...
- Danny Kladis
Danny Kladis was an American racecar driver. He was born in Crystal City, Missouri and died at Joliet, Illinois. 92-year-old Kladis was the oldest living Indy 500 starter at the time of his death.-Racing career:...
- Frank Kurtis
Frank Kurtis was an American racing car designer. He designed and built midget cars, quarter-midgets, sports cars, sprint cars, Indy cars, and Formula One cars. He was the founder of Kurtis-Kraft....
- Jason Leffler
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- Steve Lewis
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- Swede Lindskog (Einar Lindskog)
- Howard Linne
- Jack London
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- Carl Marchese
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- Johnny McDowell
Johnny McDowell was an American racecar driver from Delavan, Illinois. He died in a qualifying crash at the Milwaukee Mile the week after the 1952 Indy 500.-Racing career:...
- Mike McGreevy
- Harry McQuinn
Harry McQuinn was an American racecar driver active in the 1930s and 1940s....
- Jack Mills (racer) (Curley Mills)
- Duke Nalon
Dennis "Duke" Nalon was a midget car, sprint car, and Indy 500 driver from Chicago, Illinois, United States.-Racing career:...
- Mike Nazaruk
Mike Nazaruk was an American racecar driver. He raced midget cars, sprint cars, and IndyCars. He was nicknamed "Iron Mike."...
- Mike O'Halloran
- Danny Oakes
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- Fred Offenhauser
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- Kevin Olson
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- Johnnie Parsons
Johnnie Parsons was an American race car driver from Los Angeles, California who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1950....
- Johnny Parsons
Johnny Parsons is an American racecar driver.-Racing family:Parsons is the son of Arza and 1950 Indianapolis 500 winner Johnnie Parsons. His parents divorced, and Johnny was raised with half-brothers Dana and Pancho Carter, the product of Arza'a marriage with Duane Carter. The Carters grew up...
- Johnny Pawl
- Ralph Pratt
Ralph D. Pratt is a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He was later Judge of the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas.-External links:...
- Larry Rice
Larry Rice was an American racing driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series. He was the 1973 USAC National midget driver's champion and won the USAC Silver Crown series in 1977 and 1981. He was inducted in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1993.-Racing career:Larry's father...
- Ray Richards
- Johnny Ritter
- Chuck Rodee
Chuck Rodee , was an American racecar driver...
- Lloyd Ruby
Lloyd Ruby was an American racecar driver.Ruby raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1958-1977 seasons, with 177 career starts, including every Indianapolis 500 race during 1960-1977. He finished in the top ten 88 times, with 7 victories. His best Indy finish was 3rd in 1964...
- Roy Russing
- Paul Russo
Paul Russo was an American racecar driver.-Midget car career:...
- Troy Ruttman
Troy Ruttman was an American race car driver. He was the older brother of NASCAR driver Joe Ruttman.Ruttman won the Indianapolis 500 in 1952, and , he is the youngest winner of the race....
- Ed "Dutch" Schaefer
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- Bill Schindler
Bill Schindler was an American racecar driver.He began racing in 1931 in a sprint car. He was racing midget cars on the East Coast of the United States at their introduction in 1934...
- Les Scott
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- Bob Shannon
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and Gene Shannon
- Roy Sherman
- Jimmy Snyder
Jimmy Snyder was an American racecar driver.Snyder was part of the midget car "Chicago Gang" with Emil Andres, Tony Bettenhausen, Cowboy O'Rourke, Paul Russo, and Wally Zale. They toured tracks in the Midwest and East Coast of the United States.Snyder won the 1937 track championship at the Chicago...
- Joe Sostilio
Joe Sostilio was a Hall of Fame auto racing driver from Natick, Massachusetts. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, Sostilio was a prominent midget and stockcar driver....
- Tony Stewart
Anthony Wayne "Tony" Stewart is an American auto racing driver and owner. Throughout his racing career, Stewart has won titles in Indy cars and stock cars as well as midget, sprint and USAC Silver Crown cars, giving him the recognition of "one of the finest racers of his generation."Stewart...
- Dave Strickland
- Bob Stroud
- Bob Swanson
- Ted Tappett
- Bob Tattersall
- Shorty Templeman
Clark "Shorty" Templeman was an American racecar driver.-Championship car:...
- Johnny Thomson
Johnny Thomson was an American racecar driver. Thomson was nicknamed "the Flying Scot."-Midget cars:...
- Johnnie Tolan
Johnnie Tolan was an American racecar driver.-Racing career:Tolan won 45 midget car races in 1946, and won the Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association championship. Tolan repeated his championship in 1947, and scored 47 wins. He had 27 feature wins in 1948.He captured the 1950 AAA Midwest...
- Sleepy Tripp
Ron "Sleepy" Tripp is an American Hall of Fame midget car driver. Tripp got his nickname as a youth when he would fall asleep in his quarter midget car while waiting for his next race to start. -Midget car career:...
- Harry Turner
- Jack Turner
Jack Turner was an American racecar driver. He was nicknamed "Cactus Jack."-Midget car career:...
- Bill Vandewater
- Rich Vogler
Rich Vogler was a champion sprint car and midget car driver. He was nicknamed "Rapid Rich". He competed in the Indianapolis 500 five times, his best finish was eighth in 1989.-Racing career:...
- Bill Vukovich
Bill Vukovich was a Serbian American automobile racing driver. He won the 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500 plus two more American Automobile Association National Championship races...
- Bill Vukovich II
William John Vukovich, Jr. , better known as Bill Vukovich II is a former driver in the championship car division of USAC and CART series....
- Rodger Ward
Rodger M. Ward was an American racecar driver who won the 1959 and 1962 Indianapolis 500. He also was the 1959 and 1962 USAC Championship Car champion.-Early history:...
- Leroy Warriner
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- Ed Watson
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- Bob Wente
Bob Wente, was an American racecar driver.-Midget car:...
- Chuck Weyant
Chuck Weyant is a retired American racecar driver. He was born in St. Mary's, Ohio. -Midget cars:Weyant came from a racing family. He started out racing against his brother and father in the early 1940s before World War II. He had his first win in 1947 after the war. Weyant won track titles at...
- Bob Wilke
- Tony Willman
Tony Willman was an American racecar driver. He was killed in a midget car accident.-Career awards:*He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1992....
- Billy Wood
- Ernest Wright
Ernest or Ernie Wright may refer to the following people:*Ernest Vincent Wright , American author*Ernie Wright , American football player*Ernest Wright , football centre half who played for Mansfield Town F.C...
- Wally Zale