Christopher Bell Makes Late Charge To Victory

On Hasty Bake Qualifying Night

 

• 40th annual Chili Bowl Nationals powered by NOS
• Tulsa Expo Raceway (Tulsa, Okla.)
• Hasty Bake Qualifying Night
• Thursday, January 15, 2026
• Car Count: 82
• Overall Count: 304

A late race caution turned into a late race charge for the win, as Oklahoma’s Christopher Bell rolled the hub of the Tulsa Expo Raceway to Victory Lane during Thursday’s Hasty Bake Qualifying Night at the 40th annual Chili Bowl Nationals powered by NOS Energy Drink.

 

Already a winner during Monday’s O’Reilly Auto Parts Invitational Race of Champions, Bell’s Thursday win is his ninth in JST Motorsports preliminary A-Feature competition.

 

“I didn’t think I was going to get there,” said Bell when asked about how hard he had to work for the win.

 

“When the yellow came out, I didn’t know how far away those guys were, but I really just didn’t have the pace, and everyone was really committed to the top, and I wasn’t able to keep up, so when the yellow came out, I knew I was going to have to do something different.”

 

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JST Motorsports A Feature (30 Laps):

• 1. 21CB-Christopher Bell [8]
• 2. 55X-CJ Leary [1]
• 3. 87W-Ryan Bernal [5]
• 4. 1S-Spencer Bayston [3]
• 5. 39G-Kyle Cummins [7]
• 6. 88-Tanner Thorson [6]
• 7. 89-Chris Windom [4]
• 8. 5-Karter Sarff [11]
• 9. 67-Jacob Denney [9]
• 10. 67A-Ashton Torgerson [2]
• 11. 2D-Matt Sherrell [17]
• 12. 81F-Frank Flud [13]
• 13. 21H-Brady Bacon [14]
• 14. 55T-Trevor Cline [16]
• 15. 19-Joel Myers Jr [10]
• 16. 20Q-Brecken Reese [12]
• 17. 41J-Parker Jones [19]
• 18. 27X-Kalib Henry [21]
• 19. 8B-Jeffrey Abbey [15]
• 20. 23S-Kyle Simon [23]
• 21. 41W-Brad Wyatt [20]
• 22. 14F-Brant Woods [18]
• 23. 11-Jacob Hughes [22]
• 24. (DNS) 15D-Andrew Deal

Lap Leader(s): C.J. Leary 1-22; Ryan Bernal 23-26; Christopher Bell 27-30

 

source: Chili Bowl Media