Team Mopar has its sights set on another USAC National Midget Car Series championship, as the 66th Annual Turkey Night Grand Prix event will see Jerry Coons Jr., and defending series champion Josh Wise go head-to-head in a fight for the title. Coons Jr., and the Wilke-PAK Racing team hold a 54-point lead over Tony Stewart Racing Enterprises' Wise as the series rolls into California's Irwindale Speedway for the annual Thanksgiving night event.

Coons Jr., and Wise will battle for 100 laps on the half-mile paved oval of Irwindale to see who will capture this year's title. Wise has already notched the USAC National Sprint Car Series championship in 2006. His Tony Stewart Racing Enterprises teammate Levi Jones is currently ranked sixth in the USAC Midget points chase, with Tom Hessert Jr., rounding out the Top-10 in 10th. The event will also feature a 40-lap USAC Western States Sprint Series event

Practice for the 66th Annual Turkey Night Grand Prix will take place at Irwindale Speedway on Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. PST. Gates will open to the public on Thanksgiving at 4 p.m. PST. An autograph session on the front stretch of the half-mile oval will take place at 5:45 p.m. PST. Racing is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. PST.

For more information regarding USAC Racing or Irwindale Speedway, log on to usacracing.com or irwindalespeedway.com.

Levi Jones and the No. 21 Tony Stewart Racing Enterprises team returned to action on the West Coast over the weekend, competing in the USAC/CRA Sprint Series finale at the Perris Auto Speedway on November 18. Jones qualified fifth quick and took fourth place in the first heat race to transfer to the feature event. Running near the front of the field throughout the feature, Jones took the checkered flag in fourth-place to wrap up the weekend.

Jones and the No. 21 team captured second place in the USAC National Sprint Car Series Championship for the 2006 racing season. The Olney, Illinois, native won the 2005 USAC National Sprint Car Series Championship before joining Tony Stewart Racing Enterprises in late 2005. Jones' teammate, Josh Wise, bested him by 88 points to earn the 2006 series title.

For more information regarding USAC Racing, log on to usacracing.com.

Team Mopar's Richie Stevens Jr., pocketed an additional $25,000 in prize money at this year's NHRA POWERade Drag Racing awards banquet on Monday, November 13, as he won the Motel 6 "Who Got The Light" overall award for the season. Stevens Jr., drove his Don Schumacher Racing/J&J Racing Mopar/Valspar Dodge Stratus R/T to a .0003 margin of victory over competitor Jim Yates in the first round of the O'Reilly Midwest Nationals at Gateway International Raceway on June 25, to earn the award for the event. The impressive margin held throughout the remainder of the season, ending as Stevens Jr., collected the overall winner's share during the season finale weekend.

The Motel 6 "Who Got The Light" award is hosted by the hotel chain at each NHRA POWERade Drag Racing event. Competitors in the margin-of-victory contest include Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock competitors at each event. The drivers who survive a round of eliminations with the closest margin of victory, compared to their competitors, are awarded $1,000, and may go on to compete for the $25,000 cash bonus. The closest "photo-finish" victory for the season was rewarded with this sum at the conclusion of the 2006 NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series.

Stevens Jr., finished ninth in the 2006 NHRA POWERade Pro Stock Series Championship. The Mopar/Valspar Dodge Stratus R/T entry he piloted was fielded by Don Schumacher Racing and J&J Racing. Teammate Allen Johnson drove his J&J Racing Team Mopar Dodge Stratus R/T entry to a sixth-place finish in the points championship, just missing his first Top-five in the series. Both entries were tuned by J&J Racing co-owner Roy Johnson and Mark Ingersoll.

For more information regarding NHRA POWERade Drag Racing, Richie Stevens Jr., or Allen Johnson, log on to nhra.com.