T.J.’s Notebook: Chili Bowl Perspectives

By T.J. buffenbarger (January 16, 2018) — The 2018 Chili Bowl Nationals is in the history books and racing season is up to full speed at TJSlideways.com headquarters with schedules and news coming in a faster pace. Since my maiden trip to Tulsa in 2001 I’ve worked my way into jobs where the week of the Bowl is typically too busy for me to get away. While I much prefer being on site for an event the size of Chili Bowl the overview I get from the couch is a different perspective that I don’t do all that often for major events. Thankfully the online streams from Racinboys.com and lucasoilracing.tv kept me and race fans across the country in the loop. The stream quality from both entities was awesome from my end without a single blip the entire week of racing. While many companies seem to under spec or don’t scale up their infrastructure for major events it was refreshing both entries were prepared for the user onslaught of one of the biggest events in motorsports. Even losing the showdown between Christopher Bell and Kyle Larson for the win the racing couldn’t damper five pretty decent main events. While the [...]