Hate we couldn’t advance out of my race today, but appreciate the support of everybody out here and watching at home! I’ve had a lot of fun, and I hope I get to come back and give it another go for sure!! Thanks to the folks at Diaedge for making it happen as well.Īmong others with NASCAR connections competing Saturday: That ended his first Chili Bowl Nationals experience, but he hopes to return. Reigning Cup champion Chase Elliott finished seventh in the F-main and did not advance. … Thankfully was able to hold them off.” MORE: Chili Bowl Nationals results “I had to work way harder for that one than last year’s,” Larson told MavTV. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who won the B-main earlier in the evening, finished seventh. Kyle Larson scored his second consecutive Chili Bowl Nationals win Saturday night, leading all 55 laps.Ĭhristopher Bell, a three-time Chili Bowl champion, was challenging Larson for second with two laps to go when he hit a rut and rolled over three times, ending his race. T he winner of Saturday’s Knoxville Nationals receives $150,000 of a purse of more than $1 million.ĭirtvision is streaming the Knoxville Nationals and all the preliminary events. The top four finishers from Friday’s feature make the Saturday main event and four finishers from Saturday’s B main make the main event for a 24-car field for the 50-lap race. The top 16 in combined points from Wednesday and Thursday are locked into Saturday’s main event.
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Drivers are awarded points based on how they perform in their preliminary night in qualifying and races. Points will determine the majority of starers for the 60th Knoxville Nationals. Larson said of the Knoxville Nationals that “outside of NASCAR, I think that’s the one (race)” on his bucket list remaining after he’s won the Chili Bowl Nationals (20) and King’s Royal (2021). Hopefully we can be as strong as we were last year.” I think the atmosphere will be there again, probably even bigger than it was in the past. “Glad that things are back to normal to where we, all of us competitors and fans and everybody, can go there and live through Nationals like it really is Nationals. “Last year I thought it would be feel the same, but it definitely didn’t,” he said. But after winning that event, Larson found that he didn’t feel that way. Larson said before last year’s event that if he won it, he would probably still consider himself a Nationals winner.
Instead, the track held an event called “The One and Only.” The race was not held in 2020 because of COVID-19. He did not make the Knoxville Nationals main event in 2019. Larson finished second in the event in 2017 and was third in 2018. Defending Knoxville Nationals champion David Gravel won the feature in Wednesday’s preliminary event. Larson will compete in the second night of preliminary events, leading to Saturday night’s main event. Kyle Larson, coming off his NASCAR Cup win last weekend at Watkins Glen International, begins his quest for his first Knoxville Nationals sprint car title tonight at Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway.
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