Word: microseisms
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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The micros are the latest fad in auto racing, an ever-growing sport that drew an estimated 23 million spectators last year to all types of competition. Four years ago, one of the first micros, a Yuma, Ariz, job, caught the eye of old Racer Swarthout, who runs his own...
"For the Laughs." At the Brawley races last week, racketing and roaring around the one-eighth-mile track, the little micros hit it up as high as 60 m.p.h. on the straightaways (record for the track: 11.8 sec.). Remarked one micro-midgeter: "When you're that close to the...
In the 30-lap, twelve-car main event, two micros smashed up on a turn, three others spun out, another broke a steering-column pin, climbed a bank and hit a fence; but as usual no one was hurt-in fact, in four years of micro racing, the most serious...