TULSA, Okla. — The 37th annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals opens Monday night at the SageNet Center with a full field of entries on Cummins Qualifying Night.
After heats, qualifiers and main events, the top-two finishers in the 30-lap feature will lock into to Saturday night’s main event.
Cannon McIntosh and Ryan Timms look to be the favorites heading into the opening night program. Driving his family-owned Dave Mac Motorsports No. 08 midget, McIntosh won 15 midget features last season.
McIntosh won preliminary-night features in 2020 and ’21.
Timms, 16, will take over the wheel of the Keith Kunz Motorsports No. 67, which Buddy Kofoid has driven to consecutive USAC championships. He was a multi-time winner in midget and sprint car competition last season.
Gavan Boschele and Kyle Spence, the Giveback Classic winner, will also wheel Kunz entries on Monday night.
Trophy Cup winner Shane Golobic hits the track in a Matt Wood Racing machine, while teenage midget sensation Jacob Denney will handle Tom Malloy’s potent No. 25 machine. NASCAR drivers Chase Briscoe and Alex Bowman will drive for their own teams, while former USAC champion Chris Windom will guide one of Chad Boat’s CB Industries machines.
It will be Windom’s 16th Chili Bowl appearance, yet he’s never won a preliminary main event. His best finish in Saturday’s main event is fifth in 2010. Another veteran, Jerry Coons Jr., will drive the No. 85 fielded by Central Motorsports.
Coons has qualified for 18 Chili Bowl A-features with a best finish of fourth on three occasions.
Monday Entries
0H — Cap Henry
B1 (R) — Aaron Sanders
P1 — Paul White
2H — TBA
2W — Tony Bruce Jr
03 (R) — Ayrton Gennetten
3P (R) — Darin Naida
3V (R) — Jim Vanzant
4K — Kayla Roell
5 — Chase Briscoe
5F — Danny Frye III
5G — Gavan Boschele
6 — Bill Rose
7A — TBA
7F — TBA
7K — Kolton Gariss
7R (R) — Casey Burkham
7T — TJ Smith
08 — Cannon McIntosh
8 — Alex Sewell
8D — Colby Deming
8L — Colin Deming
8M — Kade Morton
9 — XavierDoney
9B (R) — Brian Schwabauer
12X — Steven Snawder
15G — Dennie Gieber
15K — Gage Rucker
16W — Garet Williamson
17M (R) — Jeremy Schnepper
17W — Shane Golobic
18K (R) — Billy Rayburn
18L — Logan Scherb
18N — Weston Gorham
20G — Noah Gass
21E — Emilio Hoover
22 — Sean McClelland
25 — Jacob Denney
28K — Kory Schudy
28Q — Sean Quinn
32 — Gary Taylor
31X (R) — Jeff Champagne
32T — Trey Marcham
36C (R) — Ian Creager
36K (R) — Kris Carroll
40S — Steven Snyder Jr
40U (R) — Jace Sparks
41X — Howard Moore
42K — Kevin Battefeld
44C — Blake Carrier
45J (R) — Jerry Brey
45K — Kyler Johnson
47K — Kevin Brewer
50 — Daniel Adler
50T (R) — Keoni Texeira
51C — Logan Calderwood
55X — Alex Bowman
67 — Ryan Timms
67X (R0 — Kyle Spence
69P (R) — Joey Paxson
73B — Tyler Edwards
76 (R) — Michael Smith
80H (R) — Joshua Hanna
81 (R) — Tanner Holmes
85 — Jerry Coons Jr
86C — David Camfield Sr
89 — Chris Windom
91K — Kevin Bayer
97K — Tom Harris
98P — Ryan Padgett
116 — Claud Estes III