TULSA, Okla. — A plethora of youthful hard chargers and a handful of crafty veterans will take center stage during Warren CAT Qualifying night on the second night of the 37th Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals inside the SageNet Center.
Driving the No. 71w for Keith Kunz Motorsports, two-time USAC midget champion Michael Kofoid headlines the field of young guns who will be challenging for the preliminary-night victory and one of two guaranteed spots in Saturday’s main event. Kofoid won the preliminary night feature on Tuesday night last year and has finished in the top-three in all three of his preliminary-night starts.
Last year Kaylee Bryson became the first female driver to qualify for a Chili Bowl main event and she returns to the KKM stable, wheeling the No. 71 midget as a teammate to Kofoid. She’ll be among the favorites on Tuesday night.
Teenager Jade Avedisian and Jonathan Beason will both be contenders aboard CB Industries midgets, while Daison Pursley returns to the Chili Bowl after injuries kept him from competing in last year’s event. Pursley will wheel the No. 19a midget for Reinbold Underwood Motorsports, which won last year’s Chili Bowl with Tanner Thorson at the wheel.
Another teenager, Chance Crum, who turned heads during USAC’s season-ending West Coast swing, will pilot the Rudeen Racing No. 26 machine and should be among the front runners.
Headlining the veteran contenders is 2006 Chili Bowl winner Tim McCreadie aboard the Daughtery No. 39. Another former Chili Bowl winner, Damion Gardner, pilots one of three Klatt Enterprises machines entered this year.
Zach Daum will handle Andy Bondio’s familiar No. 47 machine and Australian Michael Pickens, climbs aboard one of the seven entries for Dave Mac Motorsports. Pickens has finished in the top three four times on a preliminary night and Daum won his preliminary-night feature in 2010.
Tuesday Night Entries
00G (R) — Braedon Enos
1K — Brayton Lynch
1Z — Justin Zimmerman
2ND — Jeb Sessums
4G (R) — Drake Edwards
4X — Michael Pickens
5B — Bobby Brewer
5J — Josh Hodge
5LK — Jordan Kinser
5V — A.J. Bender
6D — Isaac Chapple
6K — Jesse Denome
7B (R) — Cody Beard
7C (R) — Josh Bilicki
7E — TBA
7MF — Chance Morton
7TX — Anthony Pope
7U — Kyle Jones
7W — Brendon Wiseley
8R — Randi ankratz
11H — Jori Hughes
11K (R) — Joey Klemish
11N (R) — Nick Baran
12H (R) — Jared Hood
14R (R) — Brody Petrie
14X — KJ Snow
15F — Kinzer Edwards
17L (R) — Cody Trammell
19A — Daison Pursley
19K — Riley Kreisel
19X (R) — Dylan Archer
21A — Austin Langenstein
21B — Trey Burke
21J — Kameron Key
22B — Troy Betts
22G (R) — John -urdie
22P (R) — Marcus Kennedy
22J — Taylor Kuehl
23 (R) — Patrick Ryan
23P (R) — Preston Lattomus
23S — Steve Irwin
26 — Chance Crum
27B — Jake Bubak
28M — Gray Leadbetter
29S — Hank Davis
33J (R) — Laike Imm
34C — Cameron Willhite
37T — Chet Gehrke
39T — Tim McCreadie
44 — Colton Hardy
45S — Shon Deskins
46 (R) — Adam Andretti
47 — Zach Daum
51 — Curtis Jones
57W (R) — Devon Borden
68S — Corby Scherb
71 — Kaylee Bryson
71G — Damion Gardner
71.5 — Robert Bell
71E — Mariah Ede
71H (R) — Austin Ervine
71W — Michael Kofoid
75X — Alex Vande Voort
80S — TBA
84 (R) — Jade Avedisian
84S — Shaun Shapel
88J — Jonathan Beason
93C — TBA
96 — Cody Brewer
118 — Scott Evans
251 — Johnny Brown Jr