Yes, Spaw I've seen midget racing on the TV. Another amusing story from F1:

In 1975 a chicane was installed at Woodcote corner at the Silverstone circuit to slow down the F1 cars. At the start of practice all the team managers went there to see how the cars coped with it.

Brian Henton (Lotus) was catching Wilson Fittipaldi (Copersucar) as they approached Woodcote for the first time and when Fittipaldi started braking - apparently very early for Woodcote - Henton thought to himself "Jeez no wonder he's slow!" and overtook him. Then he remembered, far too late, the chicane and ended up in the catch-fencing right under the noses of the team managers. Lotus team boss Colin Chapman was not amused.