TULSA, Okla. – After being regarded as one of the pre-race favorites coming into Tuesday’s Warren CAT Qualifying Night at the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals, Tyler Courtney endured a performance that was disappointing by both his and Clauson-Marshall Racing’s standards.
Courtney started third in the 25-lap preliminary night feature but didn’t have the speed to remain up front. He faded back through the top five and ultimately finished sixth, placing him in the middle of a B-main field for Saturday night’s finale.
A former preliminary night winner and perennial contender at the Chili Bowl, Courtney is seeking his third-straight appearance in the 55-lap championship A-main, but admitted that his lackluster prelim night run will make achieving that task a good bit tougher.
“It certainly doesn’t help us any,” lamented Courtney. “We just have to do what we can to learn from tonight and then move on, because if you let yourself get down about a prelim night, you’re taking yourself out of the battle that really matters. The anxiety is higher than the last couple of years, because it’s the first time in a while that I haven’t locked in, but we’ve got time left to figure things out still.”
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- Joe Tripp on Jan 16, 2019
- Article Date: 1/16/2019 by SPEEDSPORT.com