Chili Bowl Nationals

If the driver who won the preceding year's Chili Bowl or the Race of Champions fail to qualify, they are added as the 25th and 26th cars in the field.

The National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame uses the event to induct its next class of members.

The fans of the Chili Bowl have long supported the flip count, and though for a while the flip count was maintained by event staff, and even given a digital readout courtesy of World Wide Technology Raceway, the Chili Bowl has never officially recognized the stat.

The flip count over the years: The event is held at the Tulsa Expo Center, the home of The Golden Driller.

The 2007 competitors included NASCAR drivers Tony Stewart, Justin Allgaier, J. J. Yeley, A. J. Fike, Josh Wise, Kasey Kahne, and Jason Leffler, World of Outlaws sprint car drivers Terry McCarl, Tim McCreadie, Danny Lasoski, and Sammy Swindell, NHRA drag racing champions Cruz Pedregon and Gary Scelzi,[11] IndyCar drivers A. J. Foyt IV, Tom Bigelow, and Billy Boat, and numerous USAC racers.

Those drivers are all at one place for the weekend, and when you've got [all those] guys competing for just the 24 starting spots in the A-Main, you have some of the best racing that you're going to see all year all in one week at the Chili Bowl.

In 2012, following a family domestic violence incident that killed driver Donnie Ray Crawford III, who was participating in the event and was leaving for the venue to participate in Saturday's races when the incident occurred, and was to have attended the University of Oklahoma the next week, the race was expanded to 55 laps (his car number).