Bryan Clauson (center) took the A-Feature win in Friday night’s Chili Bowl Nationals qualifying round. Tim McCreadie (left) finished in second with Kasey Kahne (right) in third. Photo by Joe Orth
Picking up his fourth career preliminary night feature win, Bryan Clauson led non-stop in Friday’s Vacuworx Global Qualifying Night to set the stage for Saturday’s finale of the 30th annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals Midget car event at the Tulsa Expo Raceway in Tulsa, OK.
“My Golden Driller is lonely, I need to get him a friend,” said Clauson. “I certainly feel like we have a car capable of winning just watching the first few nights. I wasn’t quite as confident going into tonight. I felt like earlier in the week, we needed to get better. I told that to Rusty (Kunz). We went 12th in the Race of Champions and that’s a pretty good gauge.”
Earning the pole for Friday’s A-Feature, Clauson led start-to-finish without challenge. Tim McCreadie was able to get within a few car lengths of Clauson as the leaders hit traffic on lap 20, it wasn’t enough to give him a shot, as the dirt Late Model ace grabbed the runner-up spot.
Battling several laps during the races mid-point, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regular Kasey Kahne and Daryn Pittman swapped the third place position, with Kahne winning out on the battle.
Asked about his thoughts on winning the Chili Bowl, Kahne replied, “It would mean so much because it’s such a cool event. It’s such a great race, the fans are unbelievable here. The competition, everybody here in Midgets, Sprint Cars, and a couple NASCAR guys in Kyle (Larson), Ricky (Stenhouse, Jr.) and (Justin) Allgaier, so there’s just such a wide variety of competition.”
Pittman crossed fourth with Shane Golobic racing to fifth.
Damion Gardner, Tanner Thorson, Chad Boat, Jac Haudenschild and Hunter Schuerenberg rounded out the top ten.
Following the night’s feature event, the inaugural Pizza Express Pole Shuffle took place with all 12 lock in drivers getting a shot to better their position in Saturday’s A-Feature. Drawing for their position in the dash order, drivers squared off in 11 head-to-head two lap dashes. Starting with the 12th and 11th position, the winner went on to face the driver who drew 10th, the process repeated itself all the way up the ladder.
The first round saw Zach Daum square off against Shane Cottle with Daum eventually moving from 12th to eighth on the starting grid before being defeated by Joey Saldana. Ultimately, the front row came down to Clauson and Christopher Bell. Crossing the white flag 0.038 seconds apart, Bell tagged the wall in the third and fourth turns, ensuring Clauson the pole position.
With all four qualifying nights in the books, the total number of entries received for the Chili Bowl Nationals stands at 250, with 335 of those finding drivers to compete, beating out the record of 326 drivers set in 2015.
The final day of the 30th annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals is set for Saturday. For more information, visit ChiliBowl.com.
Tulsa Expo Raceway – Tulsa, OK
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Vacuworx Global Qualifying Night
1. 63-Bryan Clauson
2. 47X-Tim McCreadie
3. 67Z-Kasey Kahne
4. 21-Daryn Pittman
5. 17G-Shane Golobic
6. 71G-Damion Gardner
7. 67-Tanner Thorson
8. 15X-Chad Boat
9. 73X-Jac Haudenschild
10. 05H-Hunter Schuerenberg
11. 21K-Cory Kruseman
12. 68-Ronnie Gardner
13. 14-Trevor Kobylarz
14. 11AG-Dave Darland
15. 27T-Tucker Klaasmeyer
16. 35S-Danny Faria, Jr.
17. 51W-Danny Sheridan
18. 15-Tim Siner
19. 9K-Kyle Schuett
20. 31B-David Budres
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