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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: November 25, 2023 – Ventura Raceway – Ventura, California – 1/5-Mile Dirt Track – 82nd ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented by the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: (Top-10 locked into the feature) 1. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.059; 2. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.138; 3. Kale Drake, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.190; 4. Bryant Wiedeman, 81, CBI-12.203; 5. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-12.287; 6. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-12.289; 7. Mariah Ede, 71E, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.290; 8. Spencer Bayston, 9AU, Dyson-12.293; 9. Daison Pursley, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-12.306; 10. Kyle Larson, 1K, Larson-12.313; 11. Taylor Reimer, 25K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.320; 12. Cannon McIntosh, 86, CBI-12.334; 13. Buddy Kofoid, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.347; 14. Carson Macedo, 99AU, Dyson-12.356; 15. Corey Day, 4, Kahne-12.391; 16. Michael Faccinto, 14T, Graunstadt/Streeter-12.391; 17. Brody Fuson, 51, Carlile-12.427; 18. Mitchel Moles, 19T, Reinbold/Underwood-12.435; 19. Chance Crum, 68w, Six8-12.445; 20. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-12.469; 21. Jesse Love, 84, CBI-12.471; 22. Jake Andreotti, 00, Davis-12.491; 23. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-12.495; 24. Cade Lewis, 5K, Alexander-12.505; 25. Jade Avedisian, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.516; 26. Cole Wakim, 55, Lambert-12.521; 27. Ryan Timmons, 5v, Alexander-12.529; 28. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.539; 29. Peter Hunnibell, 65NZ, Covich-12.553; 30. Emerson Axsom, 68, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.566; 31. Max Adams, 15, Hart-12.568; 32. C.J. Sarna, 20, Sarna-12.626; 33. Caden Sarale, 32, Sarale-12.687; 34. Ricky Lewis, 6A, Pedregon-12.694; 35. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-12.731; 36. Kyle Beilman, 31B, Beilman-12.764; 37. Jake Bubak, 27B, Bourke-12.768; 38. David Gasper, 73, Ford-12.774; 39. Braden Chiaramonte, 14J, Graunstadt/Streeter-12.831; 40. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-12.995; 41. Blake Bower, 9, Boscacci-13.020; 42. Jim Vanzant, 3v, Vanzant-13.073; 43. Ron Hazelton, 15ws, Hazelton-13.132; 44. Terry Nichols, 1p, Nichols/Peckfelder-13.220; 45. Bryan Drollinger, 71D, Drollinger-13.269; 46. A.J. Hernandez, 35H, MF-NT; 47. Dane Culver, 50, Knuckles Up-NT (Time of 12.641 disallowed due to missing the scales); 48. Joey Klemish, 35K, MF-NT (Time of 12.936 disallowed due to missing the scales).

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST QUALIFYING RACE: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Carson Macedo, 2. Taylor Reimer, 3. Jacob Denney, 4. Brody Fuson, 5. Hayden Reinbold, 6. Cole Wakim, 7. David Gasper, 8. Randi Pankratz, 9. Peter Hunnibell, 10. C.J. Sarna, 11. Dane Culver, 12. Terry Nichols, 13. Blake Bower.

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND QUALIFYING RACE: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Corey Day, 2. Cannon McIntosh, 3. Mitchel Moles, 4. Jesse Love, 5. Emerson Axsom, 6. Cade Lewis, 7. Caden Sarale, 8. Kyle Beilman, 9. Braden Chiaramonte, 10. Bryan Drollinger, 11. Ryan Timmons, 12. Jim Vanzant, 13. Joey Klemish.

T.J. FORGED/CAR IQ THIRD QUALIFYING RACE: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Michael Faccinto, 2. Buddy Kofoid, 3. Gavin Miller, 4. Jade Avedisian, 5. Jake Andreotti, 6. Chance Crum, 7. Max Adams, 8. Jake Bubak, 9. Ricky Lewis, 10. Shannon McQueen, 11. A.J. Hernandez, 12. Ron Hazelton.

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (15 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Emerson Axsom, 2. Hayden Reinbold, 3. Jake Andreotti, 4. Cade Lewis, 5. Chance Crum, 6. Max Adams, 7. Ricky Lewis, 8. Jake Bubak, 9. David Gasper, 10. Caden Sarale, 11. Cole Wakim, 12. Peter Hunnibell, 13. Braden Chiaramonte, 14. Randi Pankratz, 15. C.J. Sarna, 16. Bryan Drollinger, 17. Kyle Beilman, 18. Shannon McQueen.

FEATURE: (98 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Larson (10), 2. Corey Day (12), 3. Carson Macedo (11), 4. Bryant Wiedeman (4), 5. Jacob Denney (17), 6. Emerson Axsom (23), 7. Buddy Kofoid (16), 8. Logan Seavey (2), 9. Jesse Love (21), 10. Cade Lewis (26), 11. Hayden Reinbold (24), 12. Jake Andreotti (25), 13. Gavin Miller (19), 14. Daison Pursley (9), 15. Mariah Ede (7), 16. Kale Drake (3), 17. Chase McDermand (6), 18. Jade Avedisian (22), 19. Spencer Bayston (8), 20. Justin Grant (5), 21. Cannon McIntosh (15), 22. Michael Faccinto (13), 23. Ryan Timms (1), 24. Taylor Reimer (14), 25. Mitchel Moles (18), 26. Brody Fuson (20). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Logan Seavey, Lap 26 Ryan Timms, Laps 27-98 Kyle Larson.

**Jade Avedisian flipped during qualifying. Mitchel Moles & Brody Fuson flipped on lap 2 of the feature. Carson Macedo flipped after the checkered flag.

FINAL USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Logan Seavey-1784, 2-Justin Grant-1504, 3-Bryant Wiedeman-1457, 4-Ryan Timms-1429, 5-Daison Pursley-1413, 6-Jade Avedisian-1407, 7-Jacob Denney-1363, 8-Gavin Miller-1227, 9-Cannon McIntosh-1190, 10-Taylor Reimer-1177.

FINAL OVERALL USAC NATIONAL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS:

1-Daison Pursley-199, 2-Logan Seavey-173, 3-Justin Grant-142, 4-Emerson Axsom-136, 5-Shane Cottle-106, 6-Matt Westfall-105, 7-Robert Ballou-100, 8-Chase Stockon-95, 9-Brady Bacon-92, 10-Mitchel Moles-91.

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CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jesse Love (12.104)

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Ryan Timms (12.059)

Simpson Race Products First Qualifier Winner: Carson Macedo

Rod End Supply Second Qualifier Winner: Corey Day

T.J. Forged/Car IQ Third Qualifier Winner: Michael Faccinto

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Emerson Axsom

Green APU Green Flag Challenge First Lap Leader: Jake Andreotti

Hard Charger: Bryant Wiedeman (21st to 12th)

Don Basile Rookie of the Race: Corey Day (2nd)

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Re: Usac: Turkey night grand prix usac midget results: Nov.
 

how does Weideman get hard charger for advancing 9 places when Axom started 23rd and finished 6th?

Originally Posted by toprowjim:
how does Weideman get hard charger for advancing 9 places when Axom started 23rd and finished 6th?

See below.

Originally Posted by toprowjim:
how does Weideman get hard charger for advancing 9 places when Axom started 23rd and finished 6th?

Easy explanation. It’s a typo as I forgot to change that part of the results from the race at Merced on Wednesday night. Axsom was indeed the hard charger at Ventura.

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Originally Posted by richie:
Easy explanation. It’s a typo as I forgot to change that part of the results from the race at Merced on Wednesday night. Axsom was indeed the hard charger at Ventura.

Even the best mess up now and than. To all the crew, great year, cant wait til next year. Thank you :32:

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Am I the only one that thinks this race would have been much better had the track not taken rubber? Was this due in part to the sprint cars running also? I have to believe so. Turkey Night is such a prestigious race and in my humble opinion deserves to be a stand alone midget event.

AZ, you’re not wrong. I saw the rubber coming all the way from Gary Indiana, in the race’s earlier in the night. It had to be a tough decision for the people in charge as to how to address the situation on what was already a long day at the track. It basically turned it into less than a 50 lapper. If they took the necessary steps to prevent the track going away it probably would’ve added more than an hour to the show. My vote is to take Turkey Night to Perris where it give much more of a proper tribute to its existence at Ascot. Now, cue the part why midgets don’t run on a big half mile anymore

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Originally Posted by azsprintfan1:
Am I the only one that thinks this race would have been much better had the track not taken rubber? Was this due in part to the sprint cars running also? I have to believe so. Turkey Night is such a prestigious race and in my humble opinion deserves to be a stand alone midget event.

Sprint cars ran there last few years during Turkey night and the track was fine. Last year was one of the best surfaces you will see for a midget. Epic battle between Grant and Thorson.

25MPH winds all weekend was the culprit not sprint cars.

You heard the answer in the post race interview. Wind. The wind picked up as the night went on. Wind will suck the moisture right out of a track, whether it’s nature’s trade-winds or the whirling, swirling tornado caused by a winged sprint car show.

And the quickest way to shut this event down is to move it to a 1/2 mile. It doesn’t matter how great fans think it would be. It doesn’t matter how in the old days, they used to… It’s a question of car owners and drivers agreeing to strap in and risk everything on those long straightaways.

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Originally Posted by opnwhlmnd:
Sprint cars ran there last few years during Turkey night and the track was fine. Last year was one of the best surfaces you will see for a midget. Epic battle between Grant and Thorson.

25MPH winds all weekend was the culprit not sprint cars.

I was at Ventura in 2021 and the track lasted all of 10 more laps than it did this year (it rubbered up and locked down at lap 50 that night as opposed to lap 40 Saturday night). Mitchell Moles passed Larson for 3rd right after the halfway break and it was only because Larson made a minor mistake getting off of #2 and opened the door. That was the only pass of any consequence from lap 50 on. And, there was no such winds at the 2021 race and it still rubbered up. Again, I was there and we drove over 2000 miles one way partially for this event and was extremely disappointed. I feel for those that made a similar effort to attend this year because it had the same disappointing result.

Originally Posted by Pitdad:
You heard the answer in the post race interview. Wind. The wind picked up as the night went on. Wind will suck the moisture right out of a track, whether it’s nature’s trade-winds or the whirling, swirling tornado caused by a winged sprint car show.

And the quickest way to shut this event down is to move it to a 1/2 mile. It doesn’t matter how great fans think it would be. It doesn’t matter how in the old days, they used to… It’s a question of car owners and drivers agreeing to strap in and risk everything on those long straightaways.

The last time we hosted Turkey Night we had 22 cars show up. The main reason was nobody wanted to run on a half mile. Your are correct. Bringing it back to The PAS or any other half-mile would kill the race.

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We attended the 2012 TNGP at Perris. It was the first time back on dirt since 1998. Very near 60 cars took time on Thanksgiving Night of 2012. Larson won his first of four that night. Car count dropped by 11 cars down to 48 the next year at Perris. In 2014 the total was 34 cars at Perris. As Scott said the car count bottomed out at 22 in 2015 which ended the TN tenure at Perris.

Having attended TN at both Perris and Ventura we enjoyed our experience at Perris much more than Ventura for the reasons I expressed above. However, the handwriting was on the wall in 2014. It's very sad that the factors that are in play doom events such as TN at the longer tracks but that's the reality in 2023. We feel lucky to have enjoyed the one TNGP we attended run on a longer track but it's evident it likely will never be held on a 1/2 mile ever again and it's equally likely never to be run on Thanksgiving Night ever again. Sad.

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Originally Posted by ISF:
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It's very sad that the factors that are in play doom events such as TN at the longer tracks but that's the reality in 2023. We feel lucky to have enjoyed the one TNGP we attended run on a longer track but it's evident it likely will never be held on a 1/2 mile ever again and it's equally likely never to be run on Thanksgiving Night ever again. Sad.

So, I will split this opinion with you. The race that hooked me on midgets was seeing them race at the Belleville High Banks. To watch them at that track was mesmerizing. The hair stands up on my arms just thinking about it. However, like PAS, we probably will never see midgets at the High Banks again and this does make me sad.

However, the idea that this year's TN was less than in the years past because it was ran on Saturday versus Thursday is silly. Racing Thursday was always a pain for the teams, and it was very difficult for many race fans. There is more than one race fan who could not get out of the house on Thursday to go to the races. More than one race fan that got completely sideways with their family because they went to the races instead of staying home. However, if you have it on Saturdays, all of those problems go away. I am sure if you talk to the promoter, he will tell you that his front gate went up because he moved the date to Saturday. Maintaining tradition is important, but making money is more important. Not only is the promoter making money, but he is increasing the purse for next year which should make everyone happy.

Originally Posted by Jonr:
So, I will split this opinion with you. The race that hooked me on midgets was seeing them race at the Belleville High Banks. To watch them at that track was mesmerizing. The hair stands up on my arms just thinking about it. However, like PAS, we probably will never see midgets at the High Banks again and this does make me sad.

However, the idea that this year's TN was less than in the years past because it was ran on Saturday versus Thursday is silly. Racing Thursday was always a pain for the teams, and it was very difficult for many race fans. There is more than one race fan who could not get out of the house on Thursday to go to the races. More than one race fan that got completely sideways with their family because they went to the races instead of staying home. However, if you have it on Saturdays, all of those problems go away. I am sure if you talk to the promoter, he will tell you that his front gate went up because he moved the date to Saturday. Maintaining tradition is important, but making money is more important. Not only is the promoter making money, but he is increasing the purse for next year which should make everyone happy.

Last three sentences are extremely important.
I remember not too long ago racing happening without fan attendance (covid). And we’ve had plenty of tracks close down.
I’m thankful for those few who actually put up with running any race track. That’s NO easy task. No track or race is perfect, I accept that.