The Chili Bowl Nationals have more 350 entrants for this year's event in Tulsa, OK, which runs from Tuesday to Saturday. Listed below are some of the most interesting drivers to come out of the first 11 of 35 practice sessions slated for later today.

Session 1

No. 15 Donny Schatz (Minot, ND)

Schatz started the season with two wins and a runner-up finish in Australia in the last three rounds of the World Series Sprintcars. He also recently recorded his ninth championship in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series. Schatz is racing as part of the Clauson-Marshall “BC Dream Team” for the second year in a row.

No. 21R Kaylee Bryson (Muskogee, OK)

Bryson will be the first female driver to hit the track in practice as the lineup stands now. This is Bryson’s first appearance in the Chili Bowl. The 16-year-old driver has recorded wins in her last five seasons in Micro-Sprints.

Session 2

No. 5S Chase Stockon (Fort Branch, IN)

Fifth in USAC Sprint car standings, Stockon won two of the final four races to secure his position in front of Chad Boespflug.

Session 3

No. 84X Chad Boat (Phoenix, AZ)

Son of IndyCar great Billy Boat, Chad is in between rides as he continues to pursue his dream of racing in the Indianapolis 500. He made his first step last year by competing in his first Indy Lights race at the famed track. Boat will start the year off in his more familiar Midget to make a run at his first Chili Bowl title.

Session 4

No. 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr. (Sunnyvale, Texas)

Hafertepe doesn’t plan on slowing down after winning his second Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series national title in 2017. He tied the series record for wins in a season with 15. This will be Hafertepe’s sixth Chili Bowl.

No. 71H Hudson O’Neal, Martinsville, IN

O’Neal ended his Late Model season on a high note when he won the $5,000 preliminary night of the Dirt Nationals in St. Louis. He also won the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Rookie of the Year title for 2017. Before he starts his sophomore season as a Late Model driver, he’ll have some fun and see how he can compete against the open wheel elites in the Chili Bowl.

Session 5

No. 35TE Chris Windom, Canton, IL

Windom has been tagged by the Clauson-Marshall team to compete this year as another member of the “BC Dream Team.”

Session 6

No. 71R Chase Johnson, Penngrove, CA

Johnson is coming off his career-best season in USAC competition. The 21-year-old racer recorded six wins including his first in a 410 sprint car.

Session 7

No. 22E Shane Stewart, Tulsa, OK

Stewart won eight World of Outlaws features on his way to finishing fifth in the points in the 2017 season. He was one of the first open wheel dirt drivers to make the journey down to New Zealand this year and snuck in a Sprint Car win before the end of the calendar year.

Session 8

No. 01 Kyle Larson, Elk Grove, CA

Larson started out his season with two Midget victories in New Zealand on Dec. 30 and Jan. 3. The 2018 Chili Bowl will be the first of at least 25 Midget and Sprint Car races for Larson this year as he continues to race in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series full-time. While running up front in NASCAR and making it to the Round of 12 in last year's playoffs, Larson also won more than 10 open wheel races including the first night of the Knoxville Nationals.

No. 71W Christopher Bell (Norman, OK)

As the defending champion of the Chili Bowl, Bell is the first driver in line for a provisional into the A-Main. Bell is coming off a career-best season in which he captured the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship and signed a full-time Xfinity Series deal with Joe Gibbs Racing. He started and ended the year with wins in Tulsa, as the victor of the Chili Bowl and then the Tulsa Shootout. In between he won the Knight Before the Kings Royal in a 410 Sprint and the Turkey Day Grand Prix, where he swapped sliders with his Keith Kunz racing teammate Larson.

Session 9

No. 1 Sammy Swindell (Germantown, TN)

Slammin’ Sammy is another past winner of this event, most recently winning the feature in 2009. But he has a total of five Chili Bowl titles to his name. The 62-year-old, three-time World of Outlaws champion still has plenty of race left in him after winning seven Winged Sprint features in 2017.

No. 55k Nick Knepper (Goshen, IN)

Less than a month after the Junior Knepper 55 in DuQuoin, IL, Nick — the grandson to Junior — is ready to hop in the “double nickel” for some more Midget action.

Session 10

No. 23A Hannah Adair (Broken Arrow, OK)

Adair is the second Oklahoma female racer to be entered in the event. She had a difficult 2017 season that included both a robbery of equipment in March and a scary flip in June. This will be her sixth time competing in the Chili Bowl Nationals.

Session 11

No. 7A Justin Allgaier (Riverton, IL)

A full-time NASCAR Xfinity driver, Allgaier returns to his Midget roots to compete in this year’s Chili Bowl. Last year, the driver made the feature in his qualification night.

No. 17BC Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Olive Branch, MS)

Stenhouse will once again be racing for Clauson-Marshall in the Chili Bowl, running the 17BC in the late Bryan Clauson’s memory. Stenhouse won the B-Main last year and went on to finish 16th in the A-Main on Saturday night.

No. 73 Jac Haudenschild (Wooster, Ohio)

The 59-year-old “Wild Child” is known to have no quit in him. When he came back last year to race for Stenhouse-Wood full-time in the World of Outlaws, he proved to fans and critics that he still had what it takes to race at the highest level against drivers more than half his age. Last year, Haudenschild made it to the final night’s B-Main.