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.
Meet Brian Carber, the Rocky Balboa of the Chili Bowl
The 28-year-old took an unorthodox path to his first start in the Midget Nationals. Jacob Seelman | SpeedSport
Channeling his inner Rocky Balboa, Brian Carber is at the figurative gym every night leading up to his first Chili Bowl Midget Nationals.
In the same fashion that someone like Rocky Balboa was the reason Micky Goldmill opened
Mighty Mick’s Gym, Carber is the embodiment of everything the legendary Keith Kunz was looking for when conceptualizing his Giveback Classic at modest Millbridge Speedway in Salisbury, North Carolina.
Kunz operates the top team in Dirt Midget competition.