2025 Chili Bowl
Nationals Finale Going
40 Laps With Shootout
Shifting 55 Lap Feature
To Outlaw Non-Wing
Bryan Hulbert –
TULSA, Okla. (December
10, 2024)
Making a change to
Saturday night’s program
for the 39th annual
Chili Bowl Nationals
powered by NOS Energy
Drink, the championship
A-Feature will go back
to a 40-lap showdown for
the coveted Golden
Driller.
“Our job is to provide
the best surface for
these teams to be able
to race and put on a
show for these fans, and
I’ve been talking with
Gravel the past few
years about Saturday
night and what needs to
change, and I agree with
him, it needs to be 40
laps again,” stated
Chili Bowl co-founder
and promoter, Emmett
Hahn.
Going to 55-laps after
the tragic loss of
Donnie Ray Crawford in
2012, the 55-lap feature
event will remain in
place for the Smiley’s
Racing Products Tulsa
Shootout powered by NOS
Energy Drink to continue
honoring Donnie’s life
and legacy, but it will
be a different class,
with that honor now
going to the Hyper
Racing Non-Wing Outlaw
feature.
For Matt Ward, who is
the director of
operations for both
events, continuing to
pay respect to Donnie
Ray Crawford is very
close to his heart.
“We still want to make
sure we honor Donnie.
Being his teammate in
2012 with my cousin,
Blake, was such a
special moment with the
history between our
grandpas (Emmett Hahn
and Ray Crawford).
Donnie was a hero in so
many ways to so many
people, and his legacy
will live on in that
building.”
The 40th edition of the
Tulsa Shootout takes
place December 30, 2024,
through January 4, 2025,
with the 39th Chili Bowl
Nationals happening
January 13-18, 2025.
Both events are
contested under the roof
of the SageNet Center at
Expo Square.
Teams can enter the
Tulsa Shootout online
at https://www.myracepass.com/series/1531/registrations until
December 13. Entry into
the Chili Bowl Nationals
can be done via email to
chilibowlentries@gmail.com
or by phone at (918)
838-3777.
Information on both
events is online at http://www.tulsashootout.com and http://www.chilibowl.com.
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