KYLE LARSON ADDS TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX TO HIS NOVEMBER SCHEDULE
By: Brandon Paul - FloRacing
Ventura, California (November 21, 2023)………Kyle Larson had so much fun in his return to midget racing that he has added another USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship event to his schedule in November.
The Elk Grove, Calif. native intends to compete aboard the Kyle Larson Racing No. 1K in this weekend's ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix event at California’s Ventura Raceway on Saturday, November 25, where Larson is a three-time winner of the event in 2012-16-19.
Larson is fresh off a win this past weekend in the Hangtown 100 at Placerville Speedway. The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion earned a preliminary night win on Friday night before charging from the 16th starting position to win Sunday's main event.
Larson's win on Friday night was his first midget win on dirt since November 19, 2021, when he won a Hangtown 100 preliminary night feature at Placerville. It was also his first midget start in nearly a year, dating back to last year's Turkey Night Grand Prix.
With a trio of Turkey Night Grand Prix wins already on his resume, Larson returns to Ventura Speedway seeking his fourth career win in the traditional Thanksgiving weekend event. In 10 career starts in the event, Larson has finished no worse than fourth. In addition to his three wins, he's finished second on four occasions in 2015-17-18-22.
The Turkey Night Grand Prix is the final event of the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season. Larson joins an impressive entry list that already includes 53 drivers who plan to compete in the event.
The event kicks off on Friday, November 24 with practice for the USAC Midgets, as well as hot laps, qualifying, heat races and a main event for the USAC West Coast Sprint Cars.
Action heats up on Saturday, November 25 with a full program of hot laps, qualifying, last chance qualifiers, semis and a 98-lap main event for USAC National Midgets. USAC West Coast Sprint Cars will again be in action for semis and main events.
Advance tickets, priced from $22-45, can be purchased at www.venturaraceway.com. Additional information is available at 805-648-7223.
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2023 TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX USAC MIDGET ENTRY LIST:
00 JAKE ANDREOTTI/Castro Valley, CA (Pete Davis)
1K KYLE LARSON/Elk Grove, CA (Kyle Larson Racing)
1p ®TERRY NICHOLS/Delano, CA (Nichols-Peckfelder Motorsports)
2 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (RMS Racing)
3v ®JIM VANZANT/Prescott, AZ (Jim & Bonnie Vanzant)
4 ®COREY DAY/Clovis, CA (Willie Kahne)
5K CADE LEWIS/Bakersfield, CA (Dean Alexander)
5v ®RYAN TIMMONS/Pleasant Hill, CA (Dean Alexander)
6A ®RICKY LEWIS/Camarillo, CA (Cruz Pedregon)
7 SHANNON McQUEEN/Tehachapi, CA (McQueen Racing)
7x THOMAS MESERAULL/San Jose, CA (Tim Engler)
8 RANDI PANKRATZ/Atascadero, CA (Wally Pankratz)
9 ®BLAKE BOWER/Brentwood, CA (Tony Boscacci)
9AU SPENCER BAYSTON/Lebanon, IN (Dyson Motorsport)
14J ®BRADEN CHIARAMONTE/El Cajon, CA (Graunstadt Enterprises-Streeter Racing)
14T MICHAEL FACCINTO/Hanford, CA (Graunstadt Enterprises-Matt Streeter Racing)
15ws RON HAZELTON/Chatsworth, CA (TRC Transmission)
19 DAISON PURSLEY/Locust Grove, OK (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)
19AZ ®HAYDEN REINBOLD/Gilbert, AZ (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)
19T MITCHEL MOLES/Raisin City, CA (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)
20 C.J. SARNA/Palm Desert, CA (Sarna Motorsports)
21K ®GAGE RUCKER/Truxton, MO (Kruseman Enterprises)
25 JACOB DENNEY/Galloway, OH (Tom Malloy)
25K TAYLOR REIMER/Bixby, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)
27 ®JAKE BUBAK/Arvada, CO (Bourke Motorsports)
31 CHASE JOHNSON/Penngrove, CA (Beilman Motorsports)
31B ®KYLE BEILMAN/Los Angeles, CA (Beilman Motorsports)
32 ®CADEN SARALE/Stockton, CA (Caden Sarale)
35H ®A.J. HERNANDEZ/Phoenix, AZ (MF Motorsports)
35K ®JOEY KLEMISH/Cortez, CO (MF Motorsports)
50 ®DANE CULVER/Riverside, CA (Knuckles Up Racing)
51 BRODY FUSON/Bakersfield, CA (Rusty Carlile)
55 ®COLE WAKIM/Simi Valley, CA (Steve Lambert)
57 LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Abacus Racing)
58 DANIEL WHITLEY/Ferndale, CA (Abacus Racing)
65NZ ®PETER HUNNIBELL/Auckland, NZ (Ben Covich)
67 RYAN TIMMS/Oklahoma City, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)
67K BUDDY KOFOID/Penngrove, CA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)
68 EMERSON AXSOM/Franklin, IN (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)
68w CHANCE CRUM/Snohomish, WA (Six8 Motorsports)
71 JADE AVEDISIAN/Clovis, CA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)
71D ®BRYAN DROLLINGER/San Pedro, CA (Drollinger Bros.)
71E ®MARIAH EDE/Fresno, CA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)
71K ®KALE DRAKE/Collinsville, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)
73 ®DAVID GASPER/Goleta, CA (Josh Ford Motorsports)
73 TBA (Josh Ford Motorsports)
73x ®CHASE McDERMAND/Springfield, IL (Josh Ford Motorsports)
78 ®MARVIN MITCHELL/Madera, CA (Marvin Mitchell)
81 BRYANT WIEDEMAN/Colby, KS (CB Industries)
84 ®JESSE LOVE/Menlo Park, CA (CB Industries)
86 CANNON McINTOSH/Bixby, OK (CB Industries)
88 TANNER THORSON/Minden, NV (Tanner Thorson Racing)
97 ®GAVIN MILLER/Allentown, PA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)
99AU CARSON MACEDO/Lemoore, CA (Dyson Motorsport)
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