ATQMRA Invited to
Jim Morton, 2007 Operations Manager at Wall Township Speeway Contacted the ATQMRA by phone yesterday and asked the ATQMRA to race at the 2008 Turkey Derby. Exact terms, schedule and details will be made available as soon as they are ironed out. What follows is the press release from Walter Elliot.
WALL TWP., N.J. -- There will be a Turkey Derby XXXV at Wall Township
Speedway Nov. 28-29.
WTS's General Partners have made a agreement with its Operations Manager,
Jim Morton, to reopen the 57-year-old banked paved one-third-mile oval for
aa many as six dates in November. The first three dates are for practice
sessions leading up to the post-Thanksgiving Day classic with Nov. 30 set
aside as a rain date.
'I got the agreement call from General Partner Timm Shinn 7:30 p.m.
Saturday,' said Morton Aug. 31. 'The practice dates are set for
Saturdays Nov. 15, Nov. 22 and also the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Nov. 24.'
Morton said that Turkey Derby XXXV format, racing divisions and other details
are to be posted on www.wallspeedway.com Sept. 7.
The agreement allows a modified stock car racing tradition that Thomas and
Jeannie Nicol started in 1974. Some of the best modified stock car drivers
in the country have since competed against the local NASCAR
Whelen All-American Series stars on the banked paved one-third mile oval.
Turkey Derby XXXV is the first event on 'Big Wall' since Turkey Derby XXXIV
was held Nov. 23-24, 2007. Justin Gumley, of Colts Neck, was crowned WAAS
Turkey Derby Champion while James Civali, of Meridan, Conn. won the 100-lap
Open Modified race.
Ron Frees, of Brick, and Steve Stull, of Hamilton, were named respective
street stock and INEX Legends Cars Turkey Derby divisional titlists after
their twin race performances Nov. 23-24.
Chas Okerson, of Freehold, won the sportsman main and Robert Geibel, of
Brick the RMP Modified Affordable Division feature Nov. 23. Don Adams, of
Robbinsville, won the Keenan Motors American Three Quarter Midget Racing
Association main that day.
Andrew Jankowiak, of Buffalo, N.Y., won the Value Towing Factory Stock
feature Nov. 24.
The Garden State Quarter Midget Racing Association is meanwhile set to end
its season on the adjacent one-20th-mile 'Little Wall' 8 a.m. Sept. 6-7.