Turkey Night 2015 will decide the USAC National Midget Champion
November 26 and Perris Speedway opens the gates to continue the tradition started way back in 1934 at the famous Gilmore Stadium of The Turkey night Grand Prix.
The USAC National Midget Championship will be decided at the Turkey Night Grand Prix after 21 shows across the US.
Clauson on the way to winning the 3rd Jason Leffler memorial
Pic-Rich Forman
Fresh from his win at the 3rd Jason leffler memorial at Wayne County Speedway Bryan Clauson will be sharp in the Joe Dooling/Rust Kunz #63 and he will need to be to keep the mighty Keith Kunz Toyota team at bay.
Tracy Hines takes his Parker Machinery-Turbines Stanton/Toyota #24 into the USAC Title decider holding a slender 27 points lead over Kevin Thomas Jr and 33 points over Tanner Thorson .Rico Abrue with 5 wins in Championship in 2015 is still a slim chance just 56 points adrift of Hines and with 74 points on the line the race to the Title will be a cracker.
Clauson and Abreu at the Leffler Memorial at Wayne County
An interesting fact this year is that the Kunz brother Rusty and Keith have won all but the Kokomo opener in this USAC National Midget Championship series, chances are that one of them with take out the Turkey night .The question is which brother and which driver.
Hines might well be the sentimental favorite, a USAC National Midget Championship win in his final year before retirement will be put under extreme pressure as Rusty Kunz will field Bryan Clauson while brother Keith fields 5 cars in the Turkey night field .Defending Turkey Night champion Christopher Bell is joined by Rico Abreu, Tanner Thorson, Kevin Thomas Jr and Kyle Larson. Their pre-race team discussion on tactics will be worth dropping in on, will there be any team orders,
Kunz team discussions
one might suggest the first one will be to stop Tracy Hines finishing in the top 5, a position good enough to win Tracy his first USAC National Midget Championship and it will sit perfectly with his USAC 2000 Silver Crown and 2002 Sprntcar Titles
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The eight times Turkey night Grand Prix Champion Ron Shuman will act a Grand Marshall for the night.
NEW HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Hines-771, 2-K.Thomas-744, 3-Thorson-738, 4-Abreu-715, 5-Bayston-642, 6-T.Thomas-622, 7-Jerry Coons Jr.-607, 8-Chirstopher Bell-487, 9-Hagen-398, 10-Darland-348.
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