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Belleville, IL – After a two-week lull, the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget Leagues look towards the Ironman 55 weekend on Friday, August 3rd and Saturday, August 4th. Renewing their friendly rivalry from the Second Annual Thunder in the Valley at Valley Speedway, the National Midget League swept the weekend with Tucker Klaasmeyer and Jake Neuman taking victories. One of the most technical tracks that the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget Leagues visit, the Federated Auto...more

Pevely, MO – Jerry Coons, Jr. claimed victory over Holly Shelton and Tucker Klaasmeyer in the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget League sanctioned show at the Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55. Starting outside the second row, Coons immediately took to the bottom of the high-banked 3/8 mile lurched into the lead over Tyler Thomas and Holly Shelton. As Coons rolled the bottom, Thomas took to the rim while the field battled on back. The only caution in the 25-lap feature, Jake Neuman...more

Pevely, MO – Snapping a winless streak at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55, Tyler Thomas claimed the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget League show, leading all 30 laps on his way to a dominant victory over a hard-charging Jason McDougal and POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League point leader Tucker Klaasmeyer. Thomas’s victory in the 2018 Ironman is the 11th of his career and his first with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League in 2018. Starting on the pole, Thomas wasted no...more

Belleville, IL – This weekend, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League are set to invade the mighty Macon Speedway for the Fourth Annual Rich Camfield Memorial. The Fourth Annual Rich Camfield Memorial honors the late Rich Camfield, a tremendous supporter of midget racing, nationwide. Saturday’s show at Macon Speedway will be the final visit in 2018 for POWRi. Heading into the Camfield Memorial, Tucker Klaasmeyer holds a 70-point...more

Sunday, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League breakaway and head to the Badger state for the annual Miller Lite Cornfest at Angell Park Speedway. The Miller Lite sponsored event will take place in conjunction with the annual Sweet Corn Festival hosted by the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce. Sunday will be the first appearance of the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League in Miller Lite Cornfest competition in nearly half a decade. Heading into the Camfield Memorial, Tucker Klaasmeyer...more

Macon, IL – In a race that kept fans on the edge of their seat, Kevin Thomas, Jr. claimed his third win of 2018 with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, the Fourth Annual Rich Camfield Memorial. Thomas Jr.’s other two wins include his sweep of POWRi’s Inaugural Sunshine State Midget Challenge in Florida. Starting outside row three, Thomas, Jr. had his work cut out for him when the green flag flew as pole sitter Tanner Carrick set a blistering pace with Tyler Thomas and Zach Daum in...more

Sun Prairie, WI – Breaking his 2018 dry spell, Zach Daum claimed his first win of 2018 with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, arriving in victory lane at the famed Angell Park Speedway. Daum’s win also came during Sun Prairie Cornfest, making him the 22nd different driver to win in Cornfest competition. Starting outside front row to rookie Maria Cofer, who earned her first career pole with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, Daum fell in line in the second position as the...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (August 20, 2018) – Southeast Kansas is the destination as the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA takes to Humboldt Speedway in Humboldt, KS, for two full nights of racing action on Friday and Saturday. It will mark the series’ first visit to the high-banked, 3/8-mile clay oval since Steven Shebester beat Wesley Smith and Grady Chandler to the line in the series first Humboldt appearance during August of 2017. On the strength of...more

Lonnie Wheatley, HUMBODLT, Kan. (August 24, 2018) – The Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA kicked off a two-night stand at Humboldt Speedway with 15-year-old Hank Davis of Sand Springs, Oklahoma driving to his second series win of the year in Friday night’s 25-lap feature event. After starting fifth, Davis battled past Blake Hahn by the 15th round en route to victory lane aboard the Rujo Racers No. 42 Midget entry. Davis was chased to the stripe by Hahn, who...more

Lonnie Wheatley, HUMBODLT, Kan. (August 25, 2018) – Jonathan Beason moved to the top of the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA win charts by topping Saturday night’s 25-lap feature at Humboldt Speedway. The Broken Arrow, OK, shoe battled past Friday night winner Hank Davis in the closing rounds to pick up his third series win of the year aboard the Hard Eight Racing Ferguson Superstore No. 8J entry. After starting fourth, Beason spent most of the race...more