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Everything You Need To Know: 2024 Chili Bowl Roster, Schedule And More

Everything You Need To Know: 2024 Chili Bowl Roster, Schedule And More

Driver roster, event schedule, storylines and how to watch the 2024 Chili Bowl Nationals.

Jan 4, 2024 by Brandon Paul

One of the biggest events in all of motorsports is set to take place this week with the 38th running of the Chili Bowl Nationals, January 8-13 at the SageNet Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We get you ready for the big event in this edition of "Everything You Need to Know" on FloRacing.

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What Is The Chili Bowl?

The Chili Bowl Nationals is an indoor racing event held every year at the SageNet Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The race features Dirt Midgets similar to those that compete with series such as the USAC Midget National Championship. More than 350 drivers are entered for this year's event with hopes of claiming a coveted Golden Driller trophy.

The inaugural Chili Bowl Nationals were held in 1987. Since that time, the race has become the most prestigious race in Midget racing and one of the biggest motorsports events of the year.

Why Is It Called The Chili Bowl?

The Chili Bowl Race Track

Each year, the race track inside the Tulsa Expo Center is built from the ground up in order to accommodate two events: the Tulsa Shootout and the Chili Bowl Nationals. Event officials began constructing the track in mid-December to have it prepared in time for the Tulsa Shootout at the end of December.

The track itself is a quarter-mile banked oval that will be reworked throughout the event so that fans and racers can enjoy action-packed racing.

Who's Racing In The Chili Bowl?

As mentioned previously, more than 350 drivers are currently pre-entered for this year's event. Each year, the Chili Bowl features a diverse field of drivers from all over the world of motorsports.This year's field includes drivers from NASCAR, IndyCar, High Limit Racing, World of Outlaws, USAC, Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and more.

Logan Seavey (2023) and Tanner Thorson (2022), the last two winners of the race, headline this year's entry list.

Take a look at the Chili Bowl preliminary night rosters below to see the full list of drivers racing. Keep in mind, the preliminary night rosters are frequently updated as drivers switch nights leading up to the event.

Chili Bowl Preliminary Night Rosters

What NASCAR Drivers Are Competing At The Chili Bowl?

Chili Bowl Format

With more than 350 drivers entered for this year's race, there will be five nights of preliminary action to set the stage for Saturday. Drivers will compete in a preliminary night on either Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

If you're new to the Chili Bowl, there are two words that you'll need to familiarize yourself with: passing points.

During the five qualifying nights, drivers will be looking to earn maximum passing points during heat races and qualifying races. The more passing points they earn, the better starting position they'll have during their qualifying night A-Main.

The passing points chart can be found below for those who want to follow along.

The 40 drivers gaining the most passing points in heat races will advance to qualifying races. The rest of the drivers will go to C-Mains.

For qualifying races, the top 24 in points (six in each qualifier) will be inverted to give them a chance to race for more passing points.

At the end of qualifiers, the top 16 in combined passing points between their heat and qualifying race will advance to the night's A-Main feature. Those who do not transfer to the A-Main after qualifiers will be placed in B-Mains.

The top four finishers in each C-Main will be added to the back of the B-Mains and the top four finishers in the B-Mains will be added to the rear of the starting lineup for the A-Main.

From there, it's 30 laps of racing with only the top two finishers qualifying for Saturday's A-Main. Everyone who does not qualify will be placed in the "alphabet soup" on Saturday.

Saturday's racing will begin with either P-Mains or O-Mains depending on the amount of cars that enter. Drivers will attempt to work their way up through the alphabet one step at a time with hopes of making the A-Main. There will be two B-Main features that will each lock in the top seven finishers to the A-Main, giving us our 24-car field for the 55-lap main event.

The Pole Dash featuring the top two finishers from each preliminary nights will determine the first 10 positions in the A-Main starting lineup.

VIDEO: Watch every Chili Bowl A-Main finish dating back to the inaugural race in 1987.

Chili Bowl Storylines

Logan Seavey has teamed back up with car owner Kevin Swindell to defend their Chili Bowl Nationals crown from one year ago. Read more.
Abacus Racing, the team Seavey won the 2023 USAC Midget National Championship driving for, is bringing a star-studded lineup to Tulsa. Tyler Courtney, David Gravel and Michael Pickens will drive for the team at this year's event.
Kaylee Bryson will return to the Chili Bowl as a teammate to five-time Chili Bowl winner Sammy Swindell. Bryson will drive the No. 91 Spike/Stanton SR11x for Swindell-Bertrand Motorsports.
NASCAR Cup Series driver Alex Bowman will not be competing in this year's event; however, he will have three shots at winning a Golden Driller. Alex Bowman Racing will have CJ Leary, Jake Swanson, and Kevin Thomas Jr. behind the wheel of the team's cars.
For the first time in almost a decade, the door will be open for a new Wednesday night preliminary night winner. With Rico Abreu heading to Australia to race his Sprint Car this week, his streak of eight straight Wednesday preliminary night wins will come to an end.

How to Watch The Chili Bowl

Every race during the Chili Bowl Nationals will be streamed live on FloRacing. FloRacing will provide coverage of practice day, all five qualifying nights (Monday-Friday), the alphabet soup on Saturday and the main events to conclude the event on Saturday night.

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Chili Bowl Broadcast Schedule

Day	Time	Event
Sunday, January 7	9 a.m. CT	Practice Day
Monday, January 8	3:45 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #1 / VIROC
Tuesday, January 9	3:45 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #2
Wednesday, January 10	3:45 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #3
Thursday, January 11	3:45 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #4
Friday, January 12	3:45 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #5
Saturday, January 13	9 a.m. CT (approx.)	Features Begin
Saturday, January 13	6 p.m. CT	Opening Ceremonies/Main Events

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