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Topic: Chili Bowl - A Spectator Event
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BDNPQ
January 19, 2020 at 09:57:03 PM
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My friend and I attend a number of dirt track events each year including the Knoxville Nat’ls, the Hockett-McMillan Memorial at Lucas Oil Speedway, the Short Track Nat’ls, ASCS Spring and Winter Nat’ls at Devils Bowl, and others.  While the racing at these events is always good, none of them compare to the “experience for the spectator” that the Chili Bowl provides. From the interaction with the announcers to the spectators, to the Driver Introductions and much more. 
I would like to see the other events and promoters follow the example of the Chili Bowl and put more effort into creating a bigger "Experience for the Spectator". 



alum.427
January 20, 2020 at 06:21:57 AM
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O main may have something to do with that.  All under 1 roof.  Close to 400 cars and that number is small compared to the micro car counts the weeks prior, and it's a race that's more about the trophy than the dollars. 



lake_carl
January 22, 2020 at 04:43:25 PM
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Not sure what you think is better about chili bowl than Knoxville? Most other events do not have the amount of time as the bowl ( 5 races in 5 hours)



lake_carl
January 22, 2020 at 04:45:20 PM
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Also if you not a huge fan chili bowl hard to understand, format, passing points, not knowing guy from back that made it to 3rd



revjimk
January 22, 2020 at 05:18:57 PM
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Chili Bowl is great, even without all the hoopla

Lots of action & passing!



SAF92
January 23, 2020 at 07:51:51 AM
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Posted By: lake_carl on January 22 2020 at 04:45:20 PM

Also if you not a huge fan chili bowl hard to understand, format, passing points, not knowing guy from back that made it to 3rd



Format isn't that hard to understand. Go to chilibowl's website and look and the chart for heat races passing points. After heat races the "quaifier" races are lined up based off passing points. Then mains are lined up based off all passing points combined.



egras
January 23, 2020 at 12:41:15 PM
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Curious---------What's the deepest anyone has run through the alphabet to make the A-main in the Chili bowl?



PorschePeteTx
January 23, 2020 at 12:48:50 PM
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Posted By: egras on January 23 2020 at 12:41:15 PM

Curious---------What's the deepest anyone has run through the alphabet to make the A-main in the Chili bowl?



Yeley I beleive in 2004.   Started in the F, then E, then D, then C, then B, and topped it off by finishing 3rd in the A

He was in Andy Bondio's car.



egras
January 23, 2020 at 06:16:57 PM
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Posted By: PorschePeteTx on January 23 2020 at 12:48:50 PM

Yeley I beleive in 2004.   Started in the F, then E, then D, then C, then B, and topped it off by finishing 3rd in the A

He was in Andy Bondio's car.



Awesome!  



LVDRTMLS
January 24, 2020 at 09:04:25 AM
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The Chili Bowl is like no other racing event. The Chili Bowl is a rare combination of world class drivers from nearly all racing genre's, cars owned and maintained by the finest and best funded teams along with the willingness and eagerness of teams that are postitive they won't make the later Saturday night alphabet to be a part of the whole event.

 

The electricity both in the pit area and the grandstands is like nothing we've ever experienced at a dirt track. At one time we believed that the big races at Eldora were the quintessential events. After having attended more than 20 World 100's and a dozen Dirt Late Model Dreams' and several King's Royal we've found that there is no comparison. The Chili Bowl hype is actually exceeded by the quality of the competition on the track, and that is rarely the case with the larger and more pestigious dirt racing events these days. The Saturday night live national TV broadcast has become a mid January staple even among the most casual racing fans. The down side of the TV popularity is the excessive downtime following the Saturday night D-mains. The discontent among the crowd in the grandstands grows a bit more every year.

 

Anyone who doubts the enormity of The Chili Bowl hasn't experience it in it's entirety. The event fits the hype. 



carol14
January 27, 2020 at 02:47:20 AM
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The same year that J.J. Yeley won the most passing all of those cars Danny Stratton was doing the same thing in the other tier of races (as in F main #1 and F main #2).  Danny also made it to the A feature and lost out the recognition by one car.    We were really impressed by Danny that night. 



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