#8 - Jimmy Sills (Elverta, CA)

5th Chili Bowl Appearance

Chili Bowl Main Event Starts: 4

Best Chili Bowl Finish: 5th (1999)

2003 Chili Bowl Results:

Thursday: 2nd in Heat 1; 8th in A Feature

Saturday: 18th in A Feature

Open wheel racing veteran Jimmy Sills makes one of his few racing appearances of the year at the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals.

The three-time USAC Silver Crown champion spends most of his time playing the role of "Professor" at the Jimmy Sills School of Open Wheel Racing in Marysville, CA.

With countless Sprint Car, Midget and Silver Crown feature triumphs over the course of his thirty-year career, Sills competes in a selected few racing events each year.  Sills led much of the way before finishing second in his preliminary feature at the Chili Bowl Nationals to kick off 2003, then topped the Master's Classic at Knoxville Raceway on May 30.

Sills will once again team with Murray Erickson for the 2004 O'Reilly Chili Bowl Nationals as he tries to extend his perfect record of qualifying for the main event in each of his first four Chili Bowl appearances.

Car Owner:  Murray Erickson

Chassis:  Beast

Engine:  Pink

Sponsors:  Budweiser, KSE, Simpson, Weld Wheels

Photo:  Jimmy Sills (Photo courtesy of Palmer Berger II)