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1941
Roy Russing won the Turkey Night Grand Prix 150 AAA Midget race over Duke Nalon, Danny Oakes, Sport Briggs and Ronney Householder at the Gilmore Stadium,Hollywood, CA.
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1947
Johnny McDowell won the Turkey Night Grand Prix 150 AAA Midget race over Johnnie Parsons, Mel Hansen, Bob Pankratz and Danny Oakes at the Gilmore Stadium,Hollywood, CA.
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1958
Joe Garson won the Turkey Night Grand Prix 150 USAC Midget race over Rodger Ward, Dempsey Wilson, Johnnie Parsons and George Amick at the Gardena Stadium , Gardena, CA.
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1959
Red Farmer won the Modified Stock Car race over Rod Perry and Ernie Reeves at the Hollywood Speedway , Hollywood, FL.
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1965
Dick Atkins won the Turkey Night Grand Prix 150 USAC Midget race over Bob Wente, Tommy Copp, Lowell Sachs and Bill Mehner at the Ascot Park Speedway , Gardena, CA.
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1966
Mario Andretti won the USAC Sprint Car race at the Manzanita Speedway, Phoenix,AZ. Larry Dickson was second followed by Billy Wilkerson, Don Thomas and Gene Brown.
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1969
George Benson won the Turkey Night Grand Prix 100 USAC Midget race over Mike McGreevy, Dave Strickland, Johnny Parsons and Jimmy Caruthers at the Ascot Park Speedway , Gardena, CA.
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1971
Cecil "Sam" Sommers won the ninth annual Gobbler 100 NASCAR Late Model Sportsman race over Rance Phillips, Jim Capps, Eddie MacDonald Jr and Carter Ramsey at the Jacksonville Speedway, Jacksonville, FL.
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1976
Joe Saldana won the Sprint Car race at the Devil's Bowl Speedway, Dallas,TX. Rick Ferkel was second followed by Roy Hicks, Bobby Marshall and Sammy Swindell.
Jim Hendrickson won the "Third Annual Turkey Derby" 150-lap Modified Stock Car race at the Wall Stadium, Wall Township, NJ. Maynard Troyer was second followed by Geoff Bodine, Ron Bouchard, Jerry Cook, Freddy Harbach, Dick Dunn, Charlie Jarzombek, Jim Hoffman and Pete Fiandaca.
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1980
Ron Shuman won the Turkey Night Grand Prix USAC Midget race over Bob East, Jeff Heywood, Tommy White and Brian Renshaw at the Ascot Park Speedway , Gardena, CA.
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1983
Ray Lawson won the Midget race over Steve Lotshaw, Bob Cicconi, Tommy White and Rich Vogler at the Phoenix Int. Raceway, Phoenix,AZ.
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1986
Warren Mockler won the Turkey Night Grand Prix USAC Midget race over Ron Shuman, Sleepy Tripp, Robby Flock and Stan Fox at the Ascot Park Speedway , Gardena, CA.
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1987
Bobby Davis, Jr. won the Winged Sprint Car race at the Florida State Fairgrounds, Tampa,FL. Todd Kane was second followed by Steve Morehead, Bobby Allen and Rodney Duncan. ( Click here for the race report. )
Rick Hood won the USAC Jolly Rancher Candies combined national and western states midget race at the Imperial Raceway, El Centro, CA. ( Click here for the race report. )
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1992
Page Jones won the Midget race over Lealand McSpadden, Ron Shuman, Kent Zimmerman and Bob Broseman at the Yuma Raceway ,Yuma, AZ.
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1993
Page Jones won the USAC Midget race over Robby Flock, Tony Stewart, Mike Bliss, Robert Dolacki and Stevie Reeves at the Ventura Raceway, Ventura,CA.
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1997
Billy Boat won the Turkey Night Grand Prix USAC Midget race over Jay Drake, Jimmy Sills, Wally Pankratz and Tracy Hines at the Ventura Raceway , Ventura,CA.
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2010
Jimmy Blewett won the 100-lap Tour-Type Modified race during the 37th annual Turkey Derby at the Wall Stadium, Wall Township, NJ. ( Click here for the race report. )
Matt Hirschman won the 100-lap SK Modified race during the 37th annual Turkey Derby at the Wall Stadium, Wall Township, NJ. Anthony Sesely was second followed by Chas Okerson, Keith Rocco and Jeff Malave.
Richie Pratt Jr. won the dirt-style Modified race over Patrick Dupree during the 37th annual Turkey Derby at the Wall Stadium, Wall Township, NJ.
Joey Saldana won the Lucas Oil ASCS presented by K&N Filters National Sprint Car finale race at the inaugural Las Vegas Sprint Car Super Nationals at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, NV. Brian Brown was second followed by Sammy Swindell, Jack Dover and Tony Stewart.
Will Kimmel won the Frank Kimmel Street Stock Nationals Polar Bear 150 over NASCAR star Kurt Busch at the Rockingham Speedway, Rockingham, NC.
Cory Kruseman won the Glenn Howard Memorial AMSOIL USAC-CRA Sprint Car Series feature at the Perris Auto Speedway. Tracy Hines finished second followed by Bobby East, Matt Mitchell and Casey Shuman.
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