Seavey’s Threepeat Quest Kicks Off On Chili Bowl Friday

Logan Seavey in action at Tulsa Expo Raceway. (Brendon Bauman photo)

TULSA, Okla. – No star is more prominent in the entry pool for Friday’s Hard Rock Casino Qualifying Night at the Chili Bowl Nationals powered by NOS Energy Drink than Logan Seavey.

Seavey, the two-time defending Chili Bowl champion, kicks off his quest to three-peat in the same No. 39 co-owned by Kevin and Jordan Swindell, Mike Curb, and Bertrand Motorsports that he’s won his pair of Golden Drillers in.

Friday night marks the last of the five preliminary programs before Saturday’s alphabet soup lineup of main events takes center stage at Tulsa Expo Raceway, the temporary fifth-mile dirt oval constructed inside the SageNet Center.

In addition to his back-to-back Chili Bowl titles, Seavey is also the two-time defending Friday night prelim winner and a three-time prelim winner overall.

He’s also the reigning USAC National Sprint Car Series titlist and has earned all three legs of the USAC Triple Crown (midget, sprint car, and Silver Crown) over the past two years, making Seavey one of the most decorated open wheel drivers in the field overall.

Seavey’s chief competitors for Friday glory will likely be two drivers who spent years racing around him in USAC competition – Tyler Courtney and Justin Grant.

Courtney, a past USAC national midget and national sprint car king who went on to a pair of winged sprint car titles with the All Star Circuit of Champions, is driving a second Silva Motorsports entry as a teammate to Monday winner and two-time Chili Bowl victor Kyle Larson.

Grant, meanwhile, has shifted over to CB Industries as he chases an elusive Golden Driller for the 17th time. A seven-time Saturday feature starter, Grant has won five Friday prelim night features at the Chili Bowl, coming in 2017, ’18, ’19, ’21, and ’22.

Courtney’s brother Taylor is also in action Friday night, driving for owner Kevin Reed, and Ryan Timms, Gavin Miller, and Michael Pickens hit the track in Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports machines.

Other expected contenders Friday night include Daryn Pittman in the Matt Wood Racing No. 21, Badger midget champion Chase McDermand, USAC standout Jason McDougal, second-generation young gun Cale Coons, and Ace McCarthy in a second Tanner Thorson-owned machine.

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series star Kyle Busch makes his Chili Bowl debut in a Kyle Busch Motorsports entry – the No. 51 LynK-Speedway Toyota – while NTT IndyCar Series veteran Santino Ferrucci wheels an Abacus Racing entry in his fifth Chili Bowl appearance.

Each prelim night broadcast begins at 5 p.m. ET (4 p.m. local), with every lap of Chili Bowl week available to be streamed live with a FloRacing subscription.

The full Friday night entry list can be found below.