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Article: Getting off to fast start: Quarter midget racing gives kids first chance behind the wheel.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2007
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Byline: Mark Znidar
Aug. 3--Warren Wallace, the scowling adolescent in the Geico Insurance television commercials who thinks he rules the NASCAR go-kart park with an unforgiving front bumper, might chew through a pack of his trademark toothpicks trying his hand at quarter midgets.
With eyes wide open, he might find even 6- and 7-year-olds scooting around him as if his tires were low on air pressure.
Whereas the competitive worlds of Little League baseball, girls softball, Pee Wee football and youth soccer have been well-chronicled for the time, expense and skill required, the sophisticated world of quarter midget racing might have them beat ...