TULSA, Okla. — A pair of Chili Bowl winners headline the field for Smiley’s Racing Products Qualifying night on the third day of the 37th annual event at the SageNet Center.
Two-time Chili Bowl winner Rico Abreu returns to the Keith Kunz Motorsports Curb-Agajanian stable and will drive the No. 24 entry. Abreu will be looking for his eighth consecutive Wednesday night preliminary feature triumph. All of those wins have come with the KKM organization.
Abreu won the Saturday night feature in 2015 and ’16.
Five-time Chili Bowl winner Sammy Swindell, 67, will pilot his familiar No. 1 midget as he chases a sixth victory at Tulsa Expo Raceway. Swindell won for the first time in 1989 and his most recent triumph came in 2009.
Frequent USAC midget winner Thomas Meseraull will handle the RMS Racing No. 7x. Meseruall has qualified for Saturday’s A-feature nine times. His best preliminary-night effort was a second-place effort in 2020 and ’21. Kevin Thomas Jr. will handle the Timms Racing No. 5t. Thomas is a Chili Bowl veteran and he finished second to Abreu on Wednesday night last year.
California teenager Corey Day will steer a Matt Wood Racing entry in his second Chili Bowl, while USAC rookie of the year Mitchel Moles wheels a CB Industries midget on Wednesday night
Others of note scheduled for Wednesday’s program include seven-time USAC Silver Crown Series champion Kody Swanson, two-time ASCS title winner Blake Hahn, Lucas Oil Late Model Series driver Ricky Thornton Jr., sprint car ace Justin Peck, Taylor Reimer, Matt Westfall, Brent Crews and Colten Cottle.
The top-two finishers will lock into Saturday’s main event.
Wednesday Night Entries
0G — Glenn Styres
00H (R) — John Heitzman
M1 — Colby Stubblefield
01C — Carson Sousa
1 — Sammy Swindell
1G — Justin Peck
1i (R) — Ashton Torgerson
2B — Tanner Berryhill
2C — J.R. Ewing
2X — Landon Brooks
2Y — Dave Axton
3W — Brandon Waelti
4B (R) — Chelby Hinton
4P — Kody Swanson
5H — Casey Hicks
5T — Kevin Thomas Jr
06 — Rylan Gray
6A (R) — Kalib Henry
07W — Corey Day
7J — Shawn Jackson
7JR — JD Black
7L — Jarrad Warhurst
7S — Parker Price-Miller
7X — Thomas Meseraull
Z8 (R) — Max McLaughlin
08G — Trey Gropp
08K — Karsyn Elledge
8AJ — A.J. Johnson
8K — Jake Neal
9P (R) — Kevin Cook
10M — Kort Morgan
11C — Mike Woodruff
11T — Tyler Baran
14U (R) — Cole Schroeder
15H — Sam Hafertepe Jr
16C — David Camfield Jr
17 — Travis Berryhill
17D (R) — Wyatt Rotz
19N (R) — Nathan Byrd
19Z — Hayden Reinbold
22X — Steven Shebester
23T — Tristan Lee
24 — Rico Abreu
25K — Taylor Reimer
25M — Jake Andreotti
25V — Billy VanInwegen Jr
31H — Carson Hocevar
35 — Tyler Robbins
37 (R) — Ashton Thompson
42 (R) — Patrick Prescott
45X — Roger Crockett
51R — Ricky Thornton Jr
52 — Blake Hahn
54 — Matt Westfall
55A — Jake Swanson
55C (R) — Angelo Cornet
56 — Mitchell Davis
56X — Mark Chisholm
57 (R) — Daniel Whitley
57C (R) — Adam Taylor
57H (R) — Steve Hix
60 (R) — Landon Britt
67K (R) — Cade Lewis
68 — Ronnie Gardner
68C (R) — Ryder Laplante
70 — Cade Cowles
71L (R) — Charlie Louden
71M — Brent Crews
72W — Tye Wilke
73T (R) — Tony Gomes
76X (R) — Tom Savage
77J — John Klabonde
80A — TBA
80D — Taylor Peterson
81C — Colten Cottle
89X — Mitchel Moles
91X — Danny Wood
98C — Chad Boespflug
99K — Robert Carson