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11/23/17 1:49 PM RACEDAY: 77th "Turkey Night Grand Prix:" Nov. 23, 2017

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UPCOMING EVENT INFO

DATE: Thursday, November 23, 2017

SERIES: USAC National/Light Up the World Beverages Western States Midgets

TRACK: Ventura Raceway (Ventura, California) – 1/5-mile, dirt oval

EVENT: 77th running of the “Turkey Night Grand Prix” featuring USAC National & Western States Midget Qualifying, Qualifying Races, Semi & Feature. USAC West Coast & VRA Sprint Car Semis & Feature.

STARTING TIMES: Pits: 11am. Drivers Meeting: 2:45pm. Front Gates: 3pm. Cars on track: 3:30pm. (All Times Pacific)

TICKETS: General Admission: $35.* Reserved/Pre-Sale Seats: $45. Children: $20.* Pit Passes: $50.

TRACK ADDRESS: 10 West Harbor Blvd., Ventura, CA 93001

TRACK PHONE: (805) 648-RACE

TRACK WEBSITE: http://www.venturaraceway.com/index.html

MEDIA COVERAGE: Watch LIVE on on http://www.speedshifttv.com/. Watch on-demand a day later on http://www.loudpedal.tv/. Live updates on https://www.facebook.com/usacracing/ and https://twitter.com/USACNation and available on the Race Monitor app.

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PAST WINNERS OF THE “TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX:”

1934: Bob Swanson, 1935: Ted Sizemore, 1936: Ronney Householder, 1937: Ronney Householder, 1938: Bob Swanson, 1939: Mel Hansen, 1940: Roy Russing, 1941: Roy Russing, 1945: Danny Oakes, 1946: Perry Grimm, 1947: Johnny McDowell, 1948: Bill Vukovich, 1949: Perry Grimm, 1950: Bill Zaring, 1955: Johnnie Parsons, 1956: Edgar Elder, 1957: George Amick, 1958: Joe Garson, 1959: Tony Bettenhausen, 1960: A.J. Foyt, 1961: A.J. Foyt, 1962: Billy Cantrell, 1963: Mel Kenyon, 1964: Parnelli Jones, 1965: Dick Atkins, 1966: Parnelli Jones, 1967: Gary Bettenhausen, 1968: Sam Sessions, 1969: George Benson, 1970: Gary Bettenhausen, 1971: Bill Engelhart, 1972: Tony Simon, 1973: Bill Engelhart, 1974: Danny McKnight, 1975: Mel Kenyon, 1976: Bubby Jones, 1977: Gary Patterson, 1978: Rick Goudy, 1979: Ron Shuman, 1980: Ron Shuman, 1981: Ron Shuman, 1982: Ron Shuman, 1983: Kevin Olson, 1984: Ron Shuman, 1985: Brent Kaeding, 1986: Warren Mockler, 1987: Ron Shuman, 1988: Chuck Gurney, 1989: Chuck Gurney, 1990: Stan Fox, 1991: Stan Fox, 1992: Ron Shuman, 1993: Ron Shuman, 1994: Jordan Hermansader, 1995: Billy Boat, 1996: Billy Boat, 1997: Billy Boat, 1998: Jay Drake, 1999: Jason Leffler, 2000: Tony Stewart, 2001: Dave Steele, 2002: Michael Lewis, 2003: Dave Steele, 2004: Bobby East, 2005: Jason Leffler, 2006: Billy Wease, 2007: Dave Darland, 2008: Bobby Santos, 2009: Bryan Clauson, 2010: Bryan Clauson, 2011: Caleb Armstrong, 2012: Kyle Larson, 2013: Dave Darland, 2014: Christopher Bell, 2015: Tanner Thorson, 2016: Kyle Larson

[mc/rider]

Go Brady

[treecitytornado]

This sure would be a great time for MAV TV, to show a Live race! Chili Bowl is great, but Turkey Night is big too and has almost 80 years of history!

[oppweld]

It's gonna be live on speed shift tv!

[Charles Nungester]

Very reasonable on SPeedshifttv.com. I do several of their streams in midwest off season, rarely ever have a problem.

[chathamracefan]

I’ve ordered several from them and have had great quality each time. I like it that they have their own announcer for the broadcast and not just the track pa.

[revjimk]

Great duel between Larson & Bell, especially in last few laps,with Golobic almost sneaking up on both of them!
Only 2 things: really long intermission before Sprint feature & caution laps count? Not sure of exact amount, but it seemed like that took up almost half of the race....
I'd like to see that track some day....

[flagboy55]

It was a good race and I'm glad I bought the PPV. It seemed, from the perspective of my brothers couch, that they jerked around a bit much. We started watching at 6 central time and it was about 12:30 or later when we were done. Someone mentioned a live broadcast, and while I would like to see one someday, this was a really good reason why most of these events should be edited if they were presented to anyone other than us hardcore fans. 6 plus hours is too much. Also, I think they should move this race back to PAS. I know a lot of people on here think that a midget shouldn't be run on anything bigger than a fifth mile, but I will disagree. A historic race like Turkey Night was established on a larger track and should continue that tradition. For my taste, too much contact on the tiny tracks. I sure do miss the the Hut Hundred, the real one

[GRAYBEARD]

I think Ventura is a great track for this race. With the ocean view and a nice clean fairgrounds to camp at people are all in a good friendly mood with plenty of food and good racing. Nobody complained when the midgets at Ventura were on Thursday Night Thunder. When you run a long race like that you have to count yellow flag laps up to a point just like the 100 lap Silver Crown races. You can't say the last Turkey Night races at Ventura haven't been exciting.

[mscs20]

Where was Rico?