The Chili Bowl Nationals outlined new guidelines and rules for drivers to fight each other in order to keep the crews and others from getting involved.
Director of Operations Matt Ward outlined the new rules or guidelines while speaking to FloRacing, “If you’re going to fight, do 1 on 1, you can pull anywhere from turns 3 to turn 1. So basically opening to opening and settle it yourselves 1 on 1. Kind of like hockey rules, our crew won’t break it up until it gets disadvantaged or on the ground.”
“It adds a little excitement for the fans,” he added. “And when they do it at the top of the ramp, there’s just so many people in this building you might get a drunk or two that might walk through and sucker punch somebody or an official.
“We do have a bunch of ladies that work the staging area, but if anyone that saw the Flo video from [Tulsa] Shootout, you don’t want to mess with those ladies. I saw Jill wrap one of the drivers up by his suit. So you don’t want to mess with the ladies up there. But we can’t just control it at the top of the ramp. There’s so many people. We don’t want to get it out of control. So I’m just trying to stress to those drivers, ‘Hey, if you want to do it, put a show on for the fans, do it on the racetrack,” he concluded.
6’3 Brayton Laster, who is making his Chili Bowl debut this year with Zach Boden Racing, reacted to this announcement writing on social media, “I just learned that the Chili Bowl Nationals allows drivers to fight one on one, as long as it doesn’t leave the track and it stops once you’re on the ground. With that being said, if any of my fellow drivers want to duke it out after a race, let me know and we’ll settle it right then and there and eat pizza afterwards.”
I just learned that the Chili Bowl Nationals allows drivers to fight one on one, as long as it doesn’t leave the track and it stops once you’re on the ground.
With that being said, if any of my fellow drivers want to duke it out after a race, let me know and we’ll settle it…
— Brayton Laster (@TheOnePizzaMan) January 9, 2026
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