NMAR HoF Inductees Announced

MAY 21, 2005

ALVIS, CARUTHERS, EDELBROCK, WRIGHT LATEST NATIONAL MIDGET HALL OF FAME 
INDUCTEES

Two driving champions, a car owner/engine builder and a driver/historian 
are the latest four inductees into
the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame.
Floyd Alvis, Danny Caruthers, Vic Edelbrock and Crocky Wright were selected 
by the election committee
and will be formally inducted during ceremonies at Angell Park Speedway in 
Sun Prairie, Wisc., home of the Hall
of Fame, on August 28 during the Hall of Fame Classic weekend.

The inductees were selected from a list of 33 nominees which were pared to 
20 prior to final balloting.
Their induction will bring the count of inductees to 114 since the Hall was 
established in 1984.

Alvis, who continues to compete in (BCRA) Bay Cities Racing Association and 
USAC events, owns seven
BCRA titles (1978-79-80-87-2001-02-03) and in 2003 was named Open-Wheel 
Oval Track Driver of the Year by
the West Coast Motorsports Association. He also earned Athlete of the Year 
honors in 1997 and Motorsportman
of the Year honors in 2001 from the same organization. He scored his first 
BCRA feature victory at Santa Rosa,
Calif. in 1971 and won the 2004 opener at Stockton, Calif.

Caruthers, the youngest of two brothers to win the USAC National Midget 
Championship, captured the
1971 title but was tragically fatally injured in one of the season's final 
races at Corona, Calif. At the age of 21 he
was, at the time, USAC's youngest champion and the first to be so honored 
posthumously, succeeding his
brother Jimmy, who had claimed the 1970 USAC title. He joins father Doug 
and brother Jimmy as members of the
Hall of Fame. Danny recorded a dozen USAC triumphs during his brief career 
and earned the nickname "Kid." He
became a National quarter-midget champion, competing at his father's famed 
Jelly Bean Bowl, located on the
property now occupied by Disneyland.

Edelbrock's V8-60 or "shaker" engines recorded epic upset victories over 
the famed Offenhauser
powerplant and his list of drivers included Rodger Ward, Bill Vukovich, 
Walt Faulkner, Cal Niday, Perry Grimm,
Allen Heath, Mack Hellings and Danny Oakes. The Edelbrock Corporation, 
located in Torrance,.Calif., continues
to supply the racing public with high quality speed equipment that has 
evolved from the days of the dry lakes and
the halcyon days of midget racing.

Wright, who joined Evel Knievel as the only stuntmen to be featured in the 
famed Smithsonian Institution
in Washington, D.C., has been involved with the sport of Midget racing for 
eight decades. A driver in his early
days, he earned the Western Pennsylvania motorcycle championship in 1948. 
As a reporter, he helped found the
Johnny Thomson Fan Club and began publishing motorsport books, including a 
four-volume history of Midget
racing and a unique history of the famed Nutley Velodrome in New Jersey. He 
continues his involvement to this
day as a constant supporter of the sport and a foremost authority and 
historian.