Tuesday in Tulsa did not disappoint with one of the craziest preliminary events we’ve seen in quite some time at the Chili Bowl Nationals. The end result was two brand new names locking-in to the Championship A-Main for the first time ever.

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Let’s take a quick look at where those preliminary finishers will land in Saturday’s famed alphabet soup:

TO THE A-MAIN (1-2) – Landon Brooks, Brenham Crouch

TO THE B-MAINS (3-8) – Buddy Kofoid, Corbin Rueschenberg, Gunnar Setser, Kameron Key, Hank Davis, Kaylee Bryson

TO THE C-MAINS (9-14) – Jake Bubak, Derek Hagar, Jonathan Beason, Ricky Thornton Jr, Kevin Thomas Jr, Billy VanInwegen Jr

TO THE D-MAINS (15-20) – Garet Williamson, Stevie Sussex, Nick Drake, Hunter Schuerenberg, R.J. Johnson, Thomas Meseraull

TO THE E-MAINS (21-24) – Chance Morton, Clinton Boyles, Justin Zimmerman, Brad Sweet

VIDEO: Highlights from Tuesday night's Chili Bowl preliminary feature. 

Coming from seventh and completing a last-lap pass, Yuba City, CA’s Landon Brooks was the star of the show on Tuesday - collecting a career-defining victory, his first inside the Tulsa Expo. The 21-year-old racer is the 54th driver to win a Chili Bowl preliminary and punched his ticket to his first Championship A-Main. After Shane Golobic ran second on Monday, Matt Wood Racing is now two-for-two on lock-in finishes this week with their first preliminary win in the books.

Settling for runner-up honors after leading 28 of 30 laps, Brenham Crouch barely let Brooks slip through his grasp in the final corners as Tuesday’s prelim was decided at the checkered. The Kubota High Limit Racing full-timer was completely unphased by the biggest moment he’s been part of, holding on to become the seventh Texan to qualify for Saturday’s Chili Bowl Championship A-Main.

The biggest story behind those two lock-in drivers was all four previous Tuesday winners charging through the preliminary alphabet soup. Buddy Kofoid, Hank Davis, and Jonathan Beason all required B-Main transfers to keep their nights alive, whereas Zach Daum saw his C-B-A soup run halted by one mere position.

Kofoid led the charge from 18th-to-3rd on Tuesday, claiming Hard Charger honors and going to Saturday’s B-Main along with Corbin Rueschenberg, breakout Chili Bowl rookie Gunnar Setser, Kameron Key, Hank Davis, and Kaylee Bryson.

Saturday’s “TV Time” window opens with the C-Mains and heading there from Tuesday is Jake Bubak, Derek Hagar, Jonathan Beason, Ricky Thornton Jr, Kevin Thomas Jr, and Billy VanInwegen Jr.

Two of the biggest heartbreaks of the evening came when High Limit champion Brad Sweet flipped on Lap 2 to finish 24th, and then Vermeer Motorsports crew chief ad FloRacing broadcaster, Clinton Boyles, went upside down on Lap 17 in the midst of a fierce battle for the lock-in with Crouch and Setser. They’re both forced to Saturday’s E-Main, now.

All of the Chili Bowl fun continues tonight with Wednesday’s preliminary taking center stage. If you can’t be here to witness the Tulsa magic yourself, you can watch every lap live all week long on FloRacing.

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