The Golden Driller is a tribute to the roughneck spirit that helped shape Oklahoma. At 75 feet tall, he's impossible to ignore, his boots planted firmly next to the Tulsa Expo Center.

A candid conversation with a Tulsa iconFor nearly 60 years the Golden Driller has been hanging out at Expo Square, 4145 E. 21st St., where he’s greeted fair-goers, international visitors and everyone ...

TULSA, OK — Whether it was lapped traffic or a sponsor banner, nothing was going to stop two-time Chili Bowl Nationals Champion Kyle Larson from picking up his third Golden Driller at the Tulsa ...

TULSA, O.K.- While it may only be January, fans may have watched a race of the year candidate at the Expo Center on Thursday night (Jan. 16). Complete at a blistering pace with a three-wide battle ...

It’s such a love-hate relationship.” The prestigious Golden Driller trophy. So with that goal, maybe impossibly out of reach, Pursley gritted through his rehabilitation.

NASCAR Cup Series driver Christopher Bell is the first major winner of the 2025 Chili Bowl Nationals at the Tulsa Expo Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, winning the O’Reilly Invitational Race of Champions.

Larson scored two Golden Drillers on Jan. 4, winning the outlaw winged feature in addition to the winged micro sprint A-main. James Essex writes a motorsports notebook for The Republic.

Kyle Larson picked up his second Golden Driller of the day in fine fashion with a charge from 12th to the front in EVO Fuel Injection A-Class competition at the 40th annual Smiley’s Racing ...

One of the best dirt racers of his generation, veteran NASCAR star J.J. Yeley returns to the Chili Bowl Nationals for his 29th attempt to capture the prestigious Golden Driller trophy.

After being forced to miss the last two Chili Bowl Nationals due to rules put in place by Joe Gibbs Racing, Christopher Bell is back and ready to chase his fourth Golden Driller. The three-time ...

It marked Bell’s fifth Golden Driller, with three previous Chili Bowl Nationals wins and two at Tulsa Shoutout. Although 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion Larson finished runner-up in the main ...

For Kyle Busch, nothing compares to the nerves that come with watching your kid win in the Tulsa Expo Center, not even the Daytona 500.