{"id":398135,"date":"2026-01-09T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398135\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:44:20","slug":"xfinity-series-champion-enters-chili-bowl-with-cup-crew-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398135\/","title":{"rendered":"Xfinity Series champion enters Chili Bowl with Cup crew chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off an O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts Series championship, Jesse Love is returning to the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals following a one-year hiatus driving a car with another NASCAR connection, in that it will be fielded by Cup Series crew chief Blake Harris.<\/p>\n<p>2nd Opinion Auto Center Racing, owned by Dan and Patricia Harris, have fielded Midgets in the Tulsa Expo for over a decade and the car owned by Blake is part of a larger organizational effort that includes Matt Sherrell, Luke Storer, Tanner Berryhill, and Jeb Sessums.<\/p>\n<p>But this No. 2 will be an effort spearheaded by the recently crowned Xfinity Series champion and the Hendrick Motorsports race winning crew chief.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nRead Also:<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Love is no stranger to the building or Midget racing in general as he has made three appearances with overall finishes of B13, D17 and E14.<\/p>\n<p>He has victories in the Xtreme Outlaw National Midget Series, POWRi West and owns the USAC track record at Gas City I-69 Speedway. This discipline was where he spent his formative years before moving onto pavement Late Models and NASCAR national touring. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off an O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts Series championship, Jesse Love is returning to the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,168194,634,82,168193],"class_list":["post-398135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chili-bowl","tag-nascar","tag-sports","tag-xfinity-series-champion-enters-chili-bowl-with-cup-crew-chief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}