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2025 Chili Bowl Nationals

Everything You Need To Know About The 2025 Chili Bowl

Everything You Need To Know About The 2025 Chili Bowl

Driver roster, event schedule, storylines and how to watch the 2025 Chili Bowl Nationals.

Jan 9, 2025 by Brandon Paul

The Super Bowl of Midget Racing is set to take place this week with the 39th running of the Chili Bowl Nationals, January 12-18 at the SageNet Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We get you ready for one of the biggest events in dirt track racing in this edition of "Everything You Need to Know" on FloRacing.

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.

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.

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Who's Racing In The Chili Bowl?

381 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.

The last four winners of the race: Logan Seavey ('23, '24), Tanner Thorson ('22), Kyle Larson ('20, '21) and Christopher Bell ('17, '18, '19) 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

Chili Bowl Format

With more than 380 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 40-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.

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Chili Bowl Storylines

The biggest storyline entering this year's Chili Bowl is the return of Kyle Larson AND Christopher Bell to Tulsa. With five wins between the two of them, including memorable battles against each other, all eyes will once again be on the Bell vs. Larson battle at the Chili Bowl.
NASCAR Cup Series star Kyle Busch will join his dirt racing friends and make his Chili Bowl Nationals debut in 2025. Busch explained why he decided to compete in the Chili Bowl in an interview with FloRacing.
Powerhouse Midget team Keith Kunz Motorsports is bringing 16 drivers to the Chili Bowl in 2025. You can see the full list of drivers and read about the team's effort in this story published on FloRacing.
NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon, who previously attended the event in 2022, will return this year to serve as Grand Marshal.
A pair of Northeast Dirt Modified champions, Super DIRTcar Series champion Mat Williamson and Short Track Super Series South Region champion Alex Yankowski, will make their Chili Bowl debuts in 2025.
High Limit Racing champion Brad Sweet is among the list of Sprint Car stars that will be competing in the event. Corey Day, Spencer Bayston, Justin Peck, Chris Windom, Daison Pursley, Hunter Schuerenberg, Tanner Holmes, Shane Golobic and Brenham Crouch are also entered.
Ricky Thornton Jr. will once again be competing in the Chili Bowl despite the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events being held the same weekend at Golden Isles Speedway. You can read more about his plans in this story on FloRacing.

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	WATCH LIVE
Sunday, January 12	9 a.m. CT	Practice Day	WATCH
Monday, January 13	3:30 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #1 / Race of Champions	WATCH
Tuesday, January 14	3:30 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #2	WATCH
Wednesday, January 15	3:30 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #3	WATCH
Thursday, January 16	3:30 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #4	WATCH
Friday, January 17	3:30 p.m. CT	Qualifying Night #5	WATCH
Saturday, January 18	9 a.m. CT	Features Begin	WATCH
Saturday, January 18	6 p.m. CT	Opening Ceremonies / Main Events	WATCH

Chili Bowl Daily Schedule

All times listed are Central Standard Time.

Sunday, January 12, 2025 – Practice

Building Open: 7:00 a.m.
Practice: 9:00 a.m.

Monday, January 13, 2025 – 2nd Opinion Auto Center Qualifying Night + ROC

Building opens: 9:00 a.m.
Building secured: 1:00 p.m.
Draw for Lineups: 2:00 p.m.
Driver's meeting: 3:00 p.m.
Hot Laps: 4:00 p.m.
Races: 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 – Warren CAT Qualifying Night

Building opens: 9:00 a.m.
Building secured: 1:00 p.m.
Draw for Lineups: 2:00 p.m.
Driver's meeting: 3:00 p.m.
Hot Laps: 4:00 p.m.
Races: 5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 – York Plumbing Qualifying Night

Building opens: 9:00 a.m.
Building secured: 1:00 p.m.
Draw for Lineups: 2:00 p.m.
Driver's meeting: 3:00 p.m.
Hot Laps: 4:00 p.m.
Races: 5:00 p.m.

Thursday, January 16, 2025 – Hasty Bake Qualifying Night

Building opens: 9:00 a.m.
Building secured: 1:00 p.m.
Draw for Lineups: 2:00 p.m.
Driver's meeting: 3:00 p.m.
Hot Laps: 4:00 p.m.
Races: 5:00 p.m.

Friday, January 17, 2025 – Hard Rock Casino Tulsa Qualifying Night

Building opens: 9:00 a.m.
Building secured: 1:00 p.m.
Draw for Lineups: 2:00 p.m.
Driver's meeting: 3:00 p.m.
Hot Laps: 4:00 p.m.
Races: 5:00 p.m.

Saturday, January 18, 2025 – Championship Feature Events

Building secured/Trade show opens: 8:00 a.m.
Feature Hot Laps: 9:00 a.m.
Opening Ceremonies: 6:00 p.m.

Chili Bowl Winners