Winning Moment: After enduring a surprisingly eventful heat race, defending Chili Bowl Nationals champion Tanner Thorson made the Thursday prelim feature (Jan. 12) look easy.
🏁 @TThorsonRacing’s Lucas Oil @cbnationals title defense starts strong with a Thursday night win!
Presented by @Lucas_Oil pic.twitter.com/vH0BqZ77VC
— FloRacing (@FloRacing) January 13, 2023
Dramatic Moment: USAC regular CJ Leary became the biggest name of the week to be buried in Saturday’s alphabet soup, enduring yet another major incident on the night when Taylor Ferns obliterated him in the final B-main.
That’s rough considering the 4 ran the bottom about every other corner of the race. pic.twitter.com/fboxiqZeDE
— Work Area (@The_Work_Area) January 13, 2023
In a Nutshell: There was little remarkable about this Thursday night, and that’s mercifully what the 2023 Chili Bowl needed.
What They’ll Be Group Chatting About This Morning
I really had a problem with Flo Racing’s opening monologue addressing the traumatic episode involving Ashton Torgereson last night. Asking fans not to speculate is a completely valid request. Saying there’s a time and a place to figure out what went wrong and that’s after cars are done in Tulsa this week makes absolutely no sense. I’m not arguing to park midgets until this is resolved, but how in the world can there not be some of understanding what went wrong nearly 24 hours later?
The family and team have the car and I’ve asked if there will be some kind of public due diligence from the event about what happened and it seems like that will be up to the Torgersons. https://t.co/sRp9VILnwf
— Matt Weaver (@MattWeaverRA) January 13, 2023
The “flip count” was nowhere to be found during Thursday’s telecast, and hopefully it’s six feet under the Tulsa Expo surface for good. Having said that, this is a fantastic replacement idea.
I vote for a “John Deere lap count” instead of a flip count board next year for the @cbnationals @Walkapedia_
— Kennedy (@MrKennedy22) January 13, 2023
I couldn’t help but laugh when Flo Racing’s interview with celebrity attendee Barry Weiss of Storage Wars fame resulted in Weiss exclaiming surprise when he found out that Kyle Larson was not competing this year. However, while Weiss was visibly disappointed at that discovery, he was just one man in a sea of many, as the Thursday night crowd at Tulsa was extremely large.
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