Couch Potato Tuesday: NBC Deals With Track Issues, While Knoxville Brings Kevin Swindell to the Booth
By today’s standards, last weekend was a rarity. You had a split weekend with the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series teams racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway, while the Camping World Truck Series was at Knoxville Raceway. The Cup race wasn’t all that unusual for Atlanta, just shorter, which I didn’t really welcome. The Truck race … oh boy. Stuff got a little ridiculous there.
Before we start, NBC Sports announced Friday that they will be airing a new special on Chase Elliott simply entitled
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Kyle Larson Defends Chili Bowl Title At Tulsa Expo
Everyone was gunning for defending Chili Bowl champion Kyle Larson, but no one could catch him.
Larson led every lap of the 35th annual race Saturday at the Tulsa Expo.
The Chili Bowl has had multiple consecutive champions in recent years. First, it was Kevin Swindell who won four in a row. Then, it was Rico Abreu who followed up with two Chili Bowl wins of his own.
Abreu was followed by Norman native Christopher Bell, who won three titles.
Now, it’s Larson who has secured back-to-back Chili Bowl titles.
5 Things You Need to Know before Chili Bowl Saturday Alphabet Soup runs throughout the day.
The Chili Bowl Midget Nationals is dirt racing’s version of the WWE Royal Rumble.
In the Rumble, 30 professional wrestlers periodically enter the ring over the course of an hour, with eliminations taking place as a result of one participant sending another over the top rope.
In the Chili Bowl, instead of 30 participants, there s more than 350, and eliminations occur when competitors fail to finish brief sprint races within the highest percentage of the field.
The first main elimination race, typically lettered N or O starts at 10:30 in the morning, Eastern Time, and races continue in reverse alphabetical order throughout the day.
Mixed Bag for Chase Elliott in Chili Bowl Prelim Debut
The reigning NASCAR Cup champion will begin the Alphabet Soup from a F-Main.
Chase Elliott finished P8 in his Prelim B-Main and will start Saturday in a F.
This isn t a one-off appearance on dirt for the NASCAR star.
NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott received an education on Wednesday during his debut appearance in a Chili Bowl Midget Nationals preliminary effort.
He received an education, but he earned passing grades, too.
For those who do not typically watch Chili Bowl, there are five nights of preliminary races and each of the 300-plus entrants compete in only one of the five nights that lead up to the alphabet soup on Saturday.
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