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Nick Hoffman Embarks on First-Career Chili Bowl

Racing veteran Nick Hoffman has done a little bit of everything thus far into his racing career, but he scratched another first off the bucket list on Thursday night, when he embarked on his first-career Lucas Oil Chili Bowl.

The North Carolina racer went into battle against a talented field of 64 entries at the Tulsa Expo Center (Tulsa, Oklahoma) on Thursday evening, and his night began with a fifth-place finish in his heat race after starting in the fifth position on the hammer-down track. As a result, he started ninth in a qualifier in his MPV Express Inc. No. 2H RAMS Racing entry before advancing to a sixth-place finish, which positioned him fifth on the grid for a B-main.

With only the top-4 finishers transferring to the night’s preliminary feature, Hoffman battled a broken throttle linkage to finish one spot shy of the mark in fifth as his night came to an early end.

Action resumed on Saturday morning with the 35th running of the event as Hoffman hoped to make a run through the alphabet into the coveted finale. Via his preliminary night performance, he was positioned 14th on the grid for the first E-Man. He raced to a seventh-place finish, which left him two spots short of a transfer to a D-Main. As a result, his inaugural Chili Bowl attempt came to an early end.

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