Who To Watch Thursday At The Lucas Oil Chili Bowl
Who To Watch Thursday At The Lucas Oil Chili Bowl
Wednesday's Lucas Oil Chili Bowl preliminary night features Christopher Bell, Tanner Thorson, Spencer Bayston and more.
We’re officially beyond the halfway mark of the 36th annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals.
Through three nights, we’ve seen the domination of Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports by sweeping all three prelims with Tanner Carrick, Buddy Kofoid & Rico Abreu. And now? They’ve got Christopher Bell locked and loaded.
After two years away from the stable, CBell returns to the team which he started his Midget career with and the team which he won three Golden Drillers with. He’s going for his seventh consecutive Thursday triumph, a win that would give him eight overall and tie him with Sammy Swindell for the most in history.
If CBell wants to keep his streak alive, he’s going to have to survive some of the Thursday titans.
Most notably, Tanner Thorson, a podium finisher last year and former preliminary winner, has made the switch to compete on Thursday this year. He’s aboard the Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports #19T, and noticeably has one of the fastest cars in the building.
There’s also Spencer Bayston for the RMS Racing camp, who led several laps and battled with Bell for last year’s Thursday preliminary win. He’s got the momentum from three consecutive top-10s for his RMS teammates in David Gravel, Thomas Meseraull & Brad Sweet before him.
Shane Golobic leads the charge for Matt Wood Racing, who continually shows that they’re one of the best operations in the building. “Sugar Shane” is going for his ninth Chili Bowl A-Main start this week.
Other notables include Brady Bacon, Emerson Axsom, Danny Stratton, JJ Yeley, and Joe B. Miller, among more.
You can watch every lap on FloRacing and check out the tentative Monday roster below:
0K | Don O'Keefe Jr | Pittsboro, IN |
0T | Alex Schriever | Hartford, SD |
1S | Spencer Bayston | Lebanon, IN |
2A | Rickie Gaunt | Torrance, CA |
2D | Matt Sherrell | Owasso, OK |
2E (R) | Whit Gastineau | Moore, OK |
2G | J.J. Yeley | Charlotte, NC |
2S (R) | Travis Scott | Washington, OK |
3B | Zach Blurton | Quinter, KS |
3F | Tim Barber | Sonoma, CA |
4A (R) | Dillon Silverman | Chico, CA |
4M | Brody Fuson | Bakersfield, CA |
4Z (R) | Nate Barger | Madison, SD |
5K | Ben Worth | Coalinga, CA |
6C | Collin Rinehart | Peyton, CO |
7D | Michelle Decker | Guthrie, OK |
7JR | JD Black | Grain Valley, MO |
7NZ (R) | Travis Buckley | Auckland, NZ |
7 | Shannon McQueen | (New Zealand) |
7XT | TBA | |
08B (R) | Austin Barnhill | Rocky Point, NC |
8AJ | A.J. Johnson | Oskaloosa, IA |
8G | Austin Shores | Atoka, OK |
9 | Mitchell Davis | Auburn, IL |
10C | Dalton Camfield | Decatur, IL |
10T | Brandon Thomas | Owasso, OK |
11W | Aaron Werner | Colman, SD |
14M (R) | Dylan Bloomfield | Discovery Bay, CA |
14X | Chad Boespflug | Lebanon, IN |
15D | Andrew Deal | Caney, KS |
15W | Danny Burke | Crosby, TX |
15X | Carson Garrett | Littleton, CO |
17B | Ryan Bickett | Ramona, SD |
17E | Blake Edwards | Claremore, OK |
17J (R) | Frank Beck | Sarasota, FL |
17M | Jeremy Hill | Stahlstown, PA |
17W | Shane Golobic | Fremont, CA |
18C (R) | Ryan Moser | Englewood, CO |
19D | TBA | |
19T | Tanner Thorson | Minden, NV |
20G | Noah Gass | Mounds, OK |
20H | Noah Harris | Broken Arrow, OK |
21D | Justin Dickerson | Pittsboro, IN |
21H | Brady Bacon | Broken Arrow, OK |
22T | Don Droud Jr | Lincoln, NE |
23B (R) | Brian Bell | Gallaway, TN |
25B | Steve Buckwalter | Royersford, PA |
29 | Tim Buckwalter | Douglassville, PA |
31S | Ray Seach | Beloit, WI |
35L | Carson McCarl | Altoona, IA |
39B | Emerson Axsom | Franklin, IN |
44C | Tristan Lee | Biloxi, MS |
47X | Danny Stratton | Reading, PA |
51B | Joe B. Miller | Millersville, MO |
51J (R) | AJ Hernandez | Phoenix, AZ |
53R | Sean Robbins | Collinsville, IL |
55V | C.J. Leary | Greenfield, IN |
57 57B | Maria Cofer Daniel Robinson | Macdoel, CA |
Ewing, IL | ||
60 (R) | Cody Gardner | Benton, AR |
60M | Earl McDoulett Jr | Claremore, OK |
63H | Larry Petersen | Wahiawa, HI |
68W | Shane Cottle | Kokomo, IN |
69 | Cody Hays | Wynne, AR |
71.5 | Robert Bell | Colfax, IA |
71E (R) | Mariah Ede | Fresno, CA |
71G | Damion Gardner | Concord, CA |
71R | Frankie Guerrini | San Rafael, CA |
71W | Christopher Bell | Norman, OK |
72X | Chris Tarrant | Rockwall, TX |
73X | Greg Edenholm | Malibu, CA |
74 | Drew Rader | Findlay, OH |
75X (R) | Alex Vande Voort | Knoxville, IA |
77 | Stevie Sussex III | Laveen, AZ |