Timms Leads Toyota With Runner-up Finish on Friday Chili Bowl Preliminary Night

Ryan Timms led 20 of 30 laps on the way to finishing second on Hard Rock Casino Qualifying Night to advance to Saturday’s A Main feature at the 38th annual Chili Bowl Nationals Presented by NOS.

The 17-year-old Oklahoma City native started from the pole position and led the first seven laps before slipping back only to regain the lead on lap 15. He maintained the top spot through lap 28 when Logan Seavey would slip past him coming back to the flag stand to take the win with Timms earning the runner-up spot.

Overall, seven of the ten Toyota-powered drivers entered would advance to Friday’s A Main. Steven Snyder placed fourth and Emerson Axsom was fifth as Toyotas captured three of the top five finishing positions. Two more Toyotas finished in the top 10 as Bryant Wiedeman came home in sixth and Gavin Miller was ninth.

Toyota drivers captured four of the ten positions advancing directly to the A Main over the week’s five preliminary nights. In addition to Timms’ second-place result tonight, Tanner Carrick won Monday night’s opener, with Buddy Kofoid victorious on Tuesday night and Spencer Bayston finishing on top on Thursday.

This year’s Chili Bowl Nationals features 374 entries – each fighting for one of the 24 openings in Saturday night’s “A Main” feature event.

Quotes:

Ryan Timms, Keith Kunz Motorsports Toyota: “I’m both a little frustrated and happy. Overall, I’m happy with the night. It’s a relief to be able to advance directly to the A Main tomorrow. I was leading most of the race, but Logan was able slide me. I felt I was really fast up top. I thought for the A Main, it was a phenomenal racetrack. I really wanted to win, but it’s still a great result. I’m happy I was able to lead so many laps tonight and I’m feeling good about tomorrow.”

	Toyota Friday Results		Finished
	Ryan Timms		A Main – 2nd
	Steven Snyder Jr.		A Main – 4th
	Emerson Axsom		A Main – 5th
	Bryant Wiedeman		A Main – 6th
	Gavin Miller		A Main – 9th
	Justin Grant		A Main – 20th
	Ricky Stenhouse		A Main – 23rd
	Santino Ferrucci		C Main – 6th
	Josh Hawkins		D Main – 3rd
	Sam Johnson		D Main – 8th

Toyota Saturday Race Line-up

Toyota-Powered Drivers	Preliminary Finish	Saturday Starting Position
Tanner Carrick	A Main – 1^st	A Main
Buddy Kofoid	A Main – 1^st	A Main
Spencer Bayston	A Main – 1^st	A Main
Steven Snyder	A Main – 4^th	B Main
Chris Windom	A Main – 5^th	B Main
Brady Bacon	A Main – 5^th	B Main
Emerson Axsom	A Main – 5^th	B Main
Cannon McIntosh	A Main – 6^th	B Main
Kale Drake	A Main – 6^th	B Main
Bryant Wiedeman	A Main – 6^th	B Main
Trey Marcham	A Main – 7^th	B Main
Jade Avedisian	A Main – 7^th	B Main
Brent Crews	A Main – 9^th	C Main
Gavin Miller	A Main – 9^th	C Main
Gary Taylor	A Main – 10^th	C Main
Jerry Coons, Jr.	A Main – 10^th	C Main
Parker Price-Miller	A Main – 12^th	C Main
Kris Carroll	A Main – 13^th	C Main
Blake Hahn	A Main – 15^th	D Main
Gavin Boschele	A Main – 15^th	D Main
Daison Pursley	A Main – 16^th	D Main
Jacob Denney	A Main – 17^th	D Main
Alex Bright	A Main – 17^th	D Main
Nick Drake	A Main – 19^th	D Main
Emilio Hoover	A Main – 20^th	D Main
Landon Crawley	A Main – 20^th	D Main
Justin Grant	A Main – 20^th	D Main
Taylor Reimer	A Main – 21^st	E Main
Kenney Johnson	A Main – 23^rd	E Main
Ricky Stenhouse	A Main – 23^rd	E Main
Kyle Larson	A Main – 24^th	E Main
Brayton Lynch	B Main – 5^th	E Main
Danny Wood	B Main – 5^th	E Main
Ryder Laplante	B Main – 5^th	E Main
Jesse Love	B Main – 5^th	E Main
Kyle Simon	B Main – 7^th	F Main
Weston Gorham	B Main – 8^th	F Main
Mike Hess	B Main – 8^th	F Main
Casey Shuman	B Main – 8^th	F Main
Tom Harris	B Main – 9^th	G Main
Wout Hoffmans	B Main – 9^th	G Main
Brody Wake	B Main – 11^th	H Main
D.J. Estes	B Main – 13^th	I Main
Mariah Ede	B Main – 15^th	J Main
Tanner Holmes	B Main – 15^th	J Main
Chad Frewaldt	B Main – 16^th	J Main
Keith Martin	B Main – 16^th	J Main
Dylan Menz	B Main – 16^th	J Main
Jace McIntosh	C Main – 5^th	K Main
Sean McClelland	C Main – 5^th	K Main
Josh Hanna	C Main – 6^th	K Main
Josh Baughman	C Main – 6^th	K Main
Santino Ferrucci	C Main – 6^th	K Main
Noah Harris	C Main – 7^th	L Main
Brock Berreth	C Main – 8^th	L Main
Dillon Welch	C Main – 8^th	L Main
Josh Hawkins	D Main – 3^rd	O Main
Sam Johnson	D Main – 8^th	O Main