[Racer Duck]

A Main (50 Laps)

1. #71G Damion Gardner, Pittsboro, IN;
2. #9X Dave Darland, Walton, IN;
3. #1ST Shane Cottle, Kokomo, IN;
4. #67 Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, IN;
5. #05S Jon Stanbrough, Avon, IN;
6. #39 Kevin Swindell, Germantown, TN;
7. #99 Brady Bacon, Broken Arrow, OK;
8. #20 Tony Stewart, Columbus, IN;
9. #21 Tracy Hines, Newcastle, IN;
10. #12JR Nathan High, Goodyear, AZ;
11. #20J Levi Jones, Olney, IL;
12. #29L Jesse Hockett, Warsaw, MO;
13. #71 Cole Whitt, Alpine, CA;
14. #73 Josh Ford, Oxnard, CA;
15. #33 Davey Ray, Loves Park, IL;
16. #7F Aaron Fiscus, Sun Prairie, WI;
17. #71K Jason Leffler, Long Beach, CA;
18. #11 Jerry Coons Jr., Tucson, AZ;
19. #11W Terry McCarl, Altoona, IA;
20. #12W Billy Wease, Noblesville, IN;
21. #49JR Bobby Michnowicz, Torrance, CA;
22. #91 Kasey Kahne, Enumclaw, WA;
23. #71X Brad Kuhn, Avon, IN;
24. #67A Gary “Bubba” Altig, Mechanicsburg, IL

22nd Annual Chili Bowl

Damion Gardner picked perhaps the largest dirt track stage in history to shine upon by racing to victory lane in Saturday night's 50-lap championship main event at Tulsa Expo Raceway's 22nd Annual Dodge Chili Bowl Midget Nationals.

After winning Friday night's Qualifying feature, "The Demon" raced into the lead on the eleventh lap and led the rest of the way to become the 16th different winner in event history in front of a packed house at Tulsa's QuikTrip Center and before a worldwide television audience on HBO Pay-Per-View courtesy of Lucas Oil.

Piloting Jason Leffler's Pace Electronics/Team ASE No. 71g entry, the winningest driver in USAC/CRA history and the series' 2005 champion bested a record Chili Bowl Nationals field of 274 competitors from 29 different states as well as Canada and Australia as he made his first Chili Bowl main event since finishing tenth in 2003.

"I was just trying to keep the nerves down the whole time, and even during the race at the end it was tough to keep the nerves down and to put in the good laps," Gardner commented afterward.

[Bob Tanner]

Looks as though my fellow Hoosiers did pretty well, eight out of 24. (Bryan Clauson isn't a Hoosier. He's following the same path Jeffy did. His parents moved from Calif to Indiana so their little savant could race.)

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

Looks as though my fellow Hoosiers did pretty well, eight out of 24. (Bryan Clauson isn't a Hoosier. He's following the same path Jeffy did. His parents moved from Calif to Indiana so their little savant could race.)

That's great, just what we need...another future wonderboy for NA$CAR to shove down the collectives throats.

[Racer Duck]

did ya notice that the defending champ, one Tony Stewart, came up short? and JJ "run_every_race" Yeley, didn't. without the desperate housewives chasing him, Kasey Kahne managed to get into the feature, though he finished near the back, and finally, Jason Leffler had 2 cars in the feature: the winning car and the one he drove to 17th.

still, even getting to the A Main is a feat worthy of notice since they had to best 250 other drivers to do so.