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BELLEVILLE, ILL. (July 22, 2019) – The POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League fires back off this weekend with a doubleheader of the Oklahoma Midget Nationals. The action kicks off on Friday, July 26 with a trip to Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa, Okla. followed by a stop at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Saturday, July 27. In the opening 15 races of the year, Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, Mo. has built a dominant point lead and grabbed firm control of the championship...more

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (July 27, 2019) – Continuing his stellar championship or bust campaign, Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, Mo. added another POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League win on Saturday night at I-44 Riverside Speedway. Piloting the Chad Shields Racing, MelMark Pipe & Supply, Ripper/Fontana No. 44S, Felker executed a late-race move on Blake Edwards to secure his fourth win of the year. Earning high point man honors with a seventh-to-third heat race run, Blake Edwards of Claremore,...more

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (July 29, 2019) – After a sprint car crash on Friday night left 18-year old Edmond, Okla. native Grady Chandler hospitalized with serious injuries, a group of racers and promoters quickly came together to create the Grady Chandler Benefit Race, a POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League event scheduled for Saturday, August 17 at I-44 Riverside Speedway. Injured in a non-wing sprint car crash on Friday night at Creek County Speedway, Grady suffered a severe neck injury with...more

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (August 14, 2019) – Returning to form this weekend, the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League splits the slate between the 918 and the 405. Following a Friday appearance at Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa, Okla., the league heads to I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City on Saturday night for the season’s most meaningful race, the Grady Chandler Benefit. Scheduled to open the weekend at Sapulpa’s Creek County Speedway, the POWRi West combatants will tackle the CCS...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 4, 2020) – Quickly morphing into a marquee event on the POWRi calendar, the Turnpike Challenge has experienced a meteoric rise to national prominence since debuting in 2014. A thrilling four-race swing throughout the “Sooner State,” the 2020 TPC is only three weeks away from kick starting a new campaign for the POWRi Lucas Oil National / West Midgets and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. From Creek County to I-44 to Port City, teams will be tested...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 6, 2020) – With over half of their schedule (15 of 27 races) aligning with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League in co-sanctioned events, each and every showdown for the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League is crucial in not only the championship chase, but valued experience against the nation’s best. Starting each year at home, the West racers come into the Turnpike Challenge with the slight advantage of racing on home turf, an edge that has proven invaluable on a...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 11, 2020) – Since joining the Turnpike Challenge in 2017, the Oklahoma mini-series has been the annual season opener for the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. That remains the same in 2020 when the mighty micros support the National / West Midgets at a quartet of events racing from Creek County Speedway (March 26), I-44 Riverside Speedway (March 27-28) and Port City Raceway (March 29). Parity has been king for the Outlaw Micros since their debut in 2017,...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 11, 2020) – For the first time since their POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League championship campaign in 2017, Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.), crew chief Flea Ruzic, and owner Steve Reynolds will reunite in POWRi action at Team Ripper. Racing the seventh annual Turnpike Challenge (March 26-29), Seavey will drive the No. 21KS with Ruzic on the wrenches when the season opener heads for Creek County Speedway, I-44 Riverside Speedway and Port City Raceway in Oklahoma. A...more

By Lonnie Wheatley (Indianapolis, IN) -- With no lucky four-leaf clover to be found in Du Quoin, Tyler Courtney now shifts his attention to this weekend’s season-opening POWRi Midget “Turnpike Challenge” at Oklahoma City’s I-44 Riverside Speedway. It will mark Sunshine’s second visit to the cozy 1/5-mile clay oval aboard the Clauson-Marshall Racing Driven2SaveLives/Indiana Donor Network No. 7bc Midget after taking in the opening portion of the event last year. Courtney showed speed in last...more