Justin Grant (center) scored the victory in Friday night’s Driven2SaveLives Qualifying Night A-Feature for the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals. Kyle Cummins (left) finished in second, with Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. (right) in third. Photo: Michael Fry
With slower traffic becoming a major factor in the closing laps, California’s Justin Grant managed to hold off the charge of Kyle Cummins and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. for his fourth career preliminary night victory since 2017 on Friday’s Driven2SaveLives Qualifying Night at the 35th annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Midget Nationals at Oklahoma’s Tulsa Expo Raceway.
“I had them side-by-side like six rows deep just trying to pick my way through and about had one guy slide me back on the last lap,” said Grant.
Leading from the start, Grant kept several restart challenges in his tire tracks. Going caution-free from lap 11 to the checkered flag, Grant entered traffic with a 3.213-second advantage on lap 24. Mired in traffic through the closing five laps, Cummins was closing fast.
Within car lengths as the white flag came into view, Grant held on to a 0.552-second disadvantage at the checkered flag. He and Cummings locked into Saturday night’s A-Feature.
“I knew we had a pretty good lead looking up at the board, and I felt good, then started getting tight on the curb, but fortunately, traffic made me hustle, get the right rear tire stood back up, and start hitting my marks,” said Grant. “I saw Kyle coming on the board and knew it was time to stop being patient and start moving them out of the way.”
After suffering a DNF in the eighth heat race, Stenhouse, Jr. just missed the lock into Saturday’s A-Feature by 0.164-seconds with a third place finish.
Tanner Thorson finished in fourth, with Daryn Pittman in fifth.
Damion Gardner, Jesse Love, Aaron Reutzel, J.J. Yeley and Ronnie Gardner rounded out the top 10.
The 35th annual Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals concludes on Saturday. For more information, visit ChiliBowl.com.
Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals
Tulsa Expo Raceway – Tulsa, OK
Driven2SaveLives Qualifying Night – January 15, 2021
1. Justin Grant
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10. Ronnie Gardner
11. Casey Shuman
12. Ethan Mitchell
13. Ace McCarthy
14. Kasey Kahne
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