Turkey night grand prix

Hendrick Motorsports has promoted Corey Day to a full-time ride in what will be the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series next season.Day, 19, will drive the No. 17 Chevrolet with sponsorship from HendrickCars.com. Adam Wall will be the team’s crew chief.“Corey impressed us with how quickly he adapted this year,” Rick...

Corey Day’s first try at the ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented by the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2023 marked a grand entrance to the event for the Clovis, Calif. native.In his encore performance on Saturday night at California’s Ventura Raceway, Day rose to the occasion...

Chuck Gurney, Jim Hettinger, Larry Howard, Gene Pastor, Stevie Reeves and Roy Richter have been announced as the latest inductees into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame.The announcement was made during the USAC National Midget Series event at Angell Park Speedway, the home of the National Midget Auto...

Since the late ‘80s the open-wheel racing season has started with the Chili Bowl and ended with the Turkey Night Grand Prix, which debuted in 1934. Other than four dark years during World War II, the Turkey Night midget race has been contested every November somewhere in California.But because of...

Dave Steele wins the USAC Midget Car Series "Little Trees" 25 at Phoenix International Raceway in 2002. Two-time USAC Silver Crown champion Dave Steele was killed Saturday night in a sprint car crash at Desoto Speedway in Bradenton, Florida. He was 42.Steele was racing in the Southern Shootout Sprint Car...

Above: Don "Pappy" Branson winning at the Sacramento Mile in 1965.Fifty years ago in a sprint car race at Ascot Park, a veteran hero and a future star perished in the same accident to bring the curtain down on one of USAC's darkest seasons.Don "Pappy" Branson, a 46-year-old master of...

Bryan Clauson, who will go down in USAC history as one of its most prolific performers, succumbed to injuries suffered in a devastating accident in Saturday night's Belleville Nationals midget race in Belleville, Kansas. He was 27.Clauson, who started ninth, had just taken the lead from Chad Boat and was...

Seven USAC Midget races in 2016 form the nucleus of the inaugural Jonathan Byrd's "Indy Challenge" which affords unprecedented career opportunities to USAC participants and opens the avenue to compete at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Indianapolis brothers David and Jonathan Byrd have constructed a unique format for their "challenge," which features...

Dave Darland set one record and tied another Thursday night at Perris Speedway. At 47, he became oldest winner of the Turkey Night Grand Prix and joined Mel Kenyon and the late Stan Fox as the only drivers to have won the classic USAC midget race on pavement and dirt.?It...