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

Go Brady

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!

It's gonna be live on speed shift tv!

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

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.

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....

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

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.

Where was Rico?