Mel Hansen won the Turkey Night Grand Prix 150 AAA Midget race over Bob Swanson and Fred Friday at the Gilmore Stadium,Hollywood, CA.
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1950
Bill Zaring won the Turkey Night Grand Prix 150 AAA Midget race over Bobby Ball, Perry Grimm, Allen Heath and Joe Garson at the Gilmore Stadium,Hollywood, CA.
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1958
Johnny Pouelsen won the CRA Sprint Car race at the New Ascot Stadium in Los Angeles, CA. Allen Heath was second followed by Nick Valenta, Jim Hurtubise, Willie Swift, Ray Douglas, Roy Prosser, Harry Bechtel and Parnelli Jones in the Fike Plumbing Chevy.
A.J. Foyt won the Turkey Night Grand Prix 150 USAC Midget race over Jim Hurtubise, Parnelli Jones, Porky Rachwitz and Jimmy Davies at the Ascot Park Speedway, Gardena, CA
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1967
Gary Bettenhausen won the Turkey Night Grand Prix 150 USAC Midget race over Bruce Walkup, Mike McGreevy, Mario Andretti and Hank Butcher at the Ascot Park Speedway, Gardena, CA
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1968
Bobby Hogle won the Pacific Coast Open 200 Sprint Car race over Paul Jones, Billy Wilkerson, Terry Kawell and Don Ewart at the Ascot Park Speedway (1/2d) , Gardena, CA
Paul Bates won the USAC Midget race over Mel Kenyon and Don Brown at the Cajon Speedway, San Diego,CA.
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1972
Tony Simon won the Turkey Night Grand Prix USAC Midget race over Mel Kenyon, Pancho Carter, Billy Vukovich and Danny McKnight at the Ascot Park Speedway, Gardena, CA
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1973
Billy Engelhart won the Turkey Night Grand Prix USAC Midget race over Tommy Astone, Jan Opperman, Chuck Gurney and Chris Cumberworth at the Ascot Park Speedway, Gardena, CA
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1975
Buddy Baker won the NASCAR Winston Cup L.A. Times 500 over David Pearson at the Ontario Motor Speedway, Ontario, California.
Van May won the Super Sprint Car race over Smokey Snellbaker, Bobby Allen, Buck Buckley and Kramer Williamson at the Reading Fairgrounds, Reading,PA.
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1985
Dean Thompson won the Don Peabody Classic CRA Sprint Car race over Mike Sweeney, Bubby Jones, Brad Noffsinger and Ron Shuman at the Ascot Park Speedway , Gardena,CA
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1986
Tom Bigelow won the WWAR Midget race at the East Alabama Motor Speedway, Phenix City,AL.
Bobby Allen won the Super Sprint Car race over Doug Wolfgang, Dave Kelly, Dan Dietrich and Jim Nace at the Hagerstown Speedway, Hagerstown, MD.
C.D. Coville , Brett Hearn and Howie Cronce each scored wins in the 4-Dozen Modified races at the Bridgeport Speedway, Bridgeport, NJ. ( Click here for the race report. )
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1989
Chuck Gurney won the Turkey Night Grand Prix USAC Midget race over Darryl Haugh, Mike Streicher, Brent Kaeding and Jeff Gordon at the Ascot Park Speedway, Gardena, CA
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1991
Page Jones won the USAC Midget race over brother P.J. Jones, Stevie Reeves, Robby Flock and Doug Kalitta at the Bakersfield Speedway,Bakersfield, CA.
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1995
Billy Boat won the Turkey Night Grand Prix USAC Midget race over Kenny Irwin, Kevin Doty, Richard Griffin and Rick Hendrix at the Bakersfield Speedway , Bakersfield, CA.
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2001
Robby Gordon won the NASCAR Winston Cup New Hampshire 300 over Sterling Marlin at the New Hampshire International Speedway, Loudon, NH.
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2011
Jim Rathmann ... Died ... Jim was the winner of both the 1960 Indianapolis 500 and the international 500-mile "Race of Two Worlds" in 1958 at Monza, Italy.
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