TULSA, Okla. – Sammy Swindell, the all-time leading winner in Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals history with five victories, headlines the entry list for Wednesday’s Hard Rock Casino Qualifying Night at Tulsa Expo Raceway.
Swindell, whose five Chili Bowl wins have come for five different car owners, will look to add a record-extending sixth triumph to his resume in the No. 1 John Christner Trucking Spike/Stanton SR-11 entry.
Two-time Chili Bowl winner Rico Abreu returns to Tulsa in search of his third Golden Driller with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, driving his familiar No. 97 SafeLite Auto Glass Bullet/Toyota.
Abreu will be joined by teammate Tom Harris, who takes the reins of the No. 97K Bullet/Toyota from Spencer Bayston this year with the support of J. Davidson Scrap.
Two NASCAR stars will be a part of the proceedings on Wednesday, with J.J. Yeley taking the wheel of the No. 2G Ripper/Fontana machine and Ryan Newman attempting his Chili Bowl debut in the No. 6n Aggressive Hydraulics entry for Clauson-Marshall Racing.
Yeley’s Chili Bowl try this week is the 25th of his long open-wheel career.
The NTT IndyCar Series is also represented in Wednesday’s program, with Santino Ferrucci making his first Chili Bowl appearance in the No. 18s for Jody Rosenboom, backed by David Byrd of Jonathan Byrd’s Racing.
Ferrucci regularly drives for Dale Coyne in Indy car competition.
Other notable names in Wednesday’s 70-car entry pool include 2006 Chili Bowl winner Tim McCreadie, World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series regular David Gravel, reigning USAC Western States Midget Series champion Robert Dalby and winged sprint car young gun Gio Scelzi, who announced an ARCA West driving deal with Bill McAnally Racing on Tuesday.
The top-two finishers from the 25-lap preliminary A-main will be locked into the finale and will also participate in the pole shuffle that will set the first five rows of the starting grid.
Hard Rock Casino Qualifying Night Entries – Jan. 15, 2020
Car No. – Driver – Hometown
0 – Billy VanInwegen – Port Jervis, N.Y.
1 – Sammy Swindell – Germantown, Tenn.
1P – Holly Porter – Dorchester, Ontario, Canada
1R – Brad Sweet – Grass Valley, Calif.
2D – Matt Sherrell – Owasso, Okla.
2G – J.J. Yeley – Phoenix, Ariz.
2L – Landon Simon – Avon, Ind.
2M – Colby Stubblefield – Seagoville, Texas
2T – Keith Martin – Burleson, Texas
3W – Brandon Waelti – Sun Prairie, Wis.
4D – Robert Dalby – Anaheim, Calif.
4F – Chad Frewaldt – Kansas City, Kan.
6N – Ryan Newman – South Bend, Ind.
7 – Shannon McQueen – Tehachapi, Calif.
7J – Shawn Jackson – Bear, Del.
08K – Karsyn Elledge – Mooresville, N.C.
8B – Colin Deming – Hobbs, N.M.
8W – Mark Lowrey – Concord, N.C.
9 – Tim McCreadie – Macedon, N.Y.
11E – Cory Elliott – Bakersfield, Calif.
11G – Mike Goodman – Broken Arrow, Okla.
13B – Johnny Brown – Mauriceville, Texas
13X – TBA – TBA
14 – Jesse Colwell – Red Bluff, Calif.
14E – Jake Neal – Omaha, Neb.
14J – Matt Streeter – Galt, Calif.
14S – Clinton Boyles – Greenwood, Mo.
15A – Harley Hollan – Tulsa, Okla.
15F – Kinzer Edwards – Bartlesville, Okla.
16C – David Camfield Jr. – Monticello, Ill.
17K – Michael Koontz – Bloomington, Ind.
18K – Tony Gualda – Fremont, Calif.
18S – Santino Ferrucci – Woodbury, Conn.
22C – Charlie Crumpton – Bixby, Okla.
22X – Steven Shebester – Mustang, Okla.
25C – Chase Johnson – Penngrove, Calif.
27A – A.J. Burns – New Castle, Okla.
27W – Colby Copeland – Roseville, Calif.
35X – Tyler Robbins – Collinsville, Ill.
37 – Eddie Tafoya Jr. – Chino Hills, Calif.
40 – Eric Wilkens – El Mirage, Ariz.
45X – Parker Price-Miller – Kokomo, Ind.
50 – Daniel Adler – St. Louis, Mo.
51G – Garet Williamson – Columbia, Mo.
52 – Blake Hahn – Sapulpa, Okla.
54G – Trey Gropp – Lincoln, Neb.
54W – Matt Westfall – Ludlow Falls, Ohio
57D – Daniel Robinson – Ewing, Ill.
67J – Chase Jones – Indianapolis, Ind.
68 – Ronnie Gardner – Riverside, Calif.
68C – Scott Scherb – Decatur, Texas
71R – Robby Josett – Costa Mesa, Calif.
73T – Jake Swanson – Anaheim, Calif.
75X – Mike Griffiths – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
76G – David Gravel – Watertown, Conn.
77J – John Klabonde – Ft. Calhoun, Neb.
80 – Joe Spillman – Austin, Texas
81 – Colten Cottle – Kansas, Ill.
81S – Chad Shields – Independence, Mo.
84 – Gio Scelzi – Fresno, Calif.
85 – Matt Moore – Edmond, Okla.
88N – D.J. Netto – Hanford, Calif.
91 – Jeff Stasa – Kingman, Kan.
91T – Tyler Thomas – Collinsville, Okla.
97 – Rico Abreu – St. Helena, Calif.
97K – Tom Harris – Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
97X – Austin O’Dell – Rochester, Ill.
99K – Robert Carson – Concord, Calif.
99R – Brad Bowden – Hernando, Mo.
101 – Chuck McGillivray – Madison, S.D.
130 – Larry Bratti – Springdale, Ark.
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