Daniel McPherson, 9, of Bellefontaine prepares to take the track at the Lions Club Park in West Liberty to practice for the upcoming regional race in his Senior Honda quarter midget.

Over 200 cars from Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan will fill the Lions Club Park in West Liberty for the two-day, seventeen class event for children ages 5-16.

The Honda 120 & 160 classes take the track on Saturday beginning with practice and qualifying at 9:30 a.m. with racing to follow.

Sunday racing features Novices, five classes of Deco engines, and the Briggs & Stratton World Formula class beginning at 10:30 a.m.

Admission is free and the Lions Club concession stand will be open both afternoons.

Quarter Midget cars are a scaled-down version of an actual midget racer, approximately 1/4 scale. The cars are built around a tubular frame and are fully suspended with springs or torsion bars and shocks. The bodies are fiberglass, usually painted to the driver's preference. Surrounding the driver is a chrome-moly roll cage and nerf bars. The engines are single cylinder and are manufactured by Honda, Continental, Briggs & Stratton, and Deco. In the motors stock configuration they produce between 2.5 & 4 horsepower. Modifications in the upper classes allow these engines to reach several times the stock horsepower. These air-cooled 4-cycle engines are reliable and can produce as much as 10,000 rpm's in their more highly modified forms.

The Mac-O-Chee Quarter Midget Club in West Liberty is one of  the 50 non-profit Quarter Midget Clubs nationwide. You can see more at http://www.macochee.org/