Chili Bowl 2019 – night three
The start of Wednesday’s 25-lap A-main preliminary night feature
at the 33rd annual Chili Bowl Nationals presented by General Tire featured
two-time winner Rico Abreu on the outside of the front row alongside young Cole
Bodine.
Abreu in his #97 Safelite Auto Glass-sponsored Keith Kunz Motorsports
Toyota powered machine fell to third at the drop of the green flag behind Blake Hahn as Bodine, who is not
related to the NASCAR Bodine family shot into the lead in NOS Energy Drink Clauson-Marshall
Racing entry.
On lap two, Abreu shot past Hahn, grandson of Chili Bowl
founder Emmett Hahn, to secure second place and moved to the cushion and chased
down leader Bodine and took the lead on the seventh lap on the low side through
turn four. From there Rico cruised the top, as former winner Tim McCreadie, World
of Outlaws sprint car star David Gravel and Bodine battled for second place.
At the checkered flag it was Rico Abreu followed by Gravel
and Bodine with Californian Jake Swanson finishing fourth after starting the race in seventeenth
position. Swanson was not the race’s biggest mover however, that honor went to
Ryan Smith who improved eighteen positions from his 23rd starting spot.
The the heartbreak of the night award went to Pauls
Valley Oklahoma’s Steven Shebester, who was leading the second B feature when the engine in Ray Williams’ gorgeous City
Vending machine expired three laps from the finish.
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