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Lonnie Wheatley, GARDEN CITY, Kan. (May 27, 2018) – The Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA continues its string of offering up different winners. Fourteen-year-old Hank Davis wired the field in Sunday night’s 25-lap TBJ Promotions “Midget Roundup” finale versus the Lucas Oil POWRi Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association atop the 1/5-mile Airport Raceway to take the $2,000 winner’s share over a field of 41 competitors. With the triumph, the Sand Springs, OK,...more

This Saturday, June 2nd be part of the Inaugural POWRi Pavement Season Opener at Grundy County Speedway. Saturday June 2nd FIRST SATURDAY OF THE YEAR The NEW POWRI Pavement Midget Series Joliet U-Pull-It Mid Am Feature - $1000 To Win Grundy/Rockford Pure Stock/Bandit Challenge Pits Open 3PM - Stands Open 4:30PM Qualifying 5:45PM - First Race 7PM Adults $10, Seniors $8, Students 12-17 $5 Kids 11 & Under FREE

A weekend doubleheader awaits The POWRi Lucas Oil Regional Midget Series and Zimbrick Chevrolet of Sun Prairie Badger Midget Racing Series, at Sycamore (Ill.) Speedway on Saturday Night June 2 before returning to Angell Park Speedway the following evening June 3.

Sycamore, Ill., June 2---Missouri's Andrew Felker won the 25-lap Zimbrick Chevrolet of Sun Prairie Badger Midget Racing Series feature Saturday Night at Sycamore Speedway. The event was co-sanctioned with the POWRi Lucas Oil Regional Midget Series. The victory was the fifth career Badger feature win for Felker who drove the RAB Racing owned Spike/Esslinger Ford-Duratech No. 57. Felker took the lead on the ninth lap from Jack Routson, finishing ahead of: Kevin Olson, Scott Hatton, series points...more

Morris, IL – Saturday night Jimmy Anderson etched his name in the POWRi record books by winning the inaugural POWRi Lucas Oil Pavement Series race Presented by Heroes West in Morris, Illinois at Grundy County Speedway. Driving his Beast-Mopar, Anderson set quick time in qualifying and started on the pole for the feature event. Even though Anderson set a good pace, he was dogged by the Spike-Esslinger entry piloted by second place finisher, Bill Hulbert. “This is so exciting to bring...more

Sun Prairie, Wis., June 3--- Andrew Felker won the 20-lap Zimbrick Chevrolet of Sun Prairie Badger Midget Racing Series feature Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. The event was co-sanctioned with the POWRi Lucas Oil Regional Midget Series. The event also kicked off the 72nd year of racing at the track and is the first of nine nights of racing this season at the facility. Polesitter Mitchell Davis took the lead at the drop of the green flag, with Felker passing three cars in the opening lap....more

Belleville, IL – In just a few short days, Illinois race fans’ most anticipated week of open wheel racing roars to life. POWRi’s Sixth Annual Illinois SPEED Week kicks off Wednesday night at Belle-Clair Speedway in Belleville, Illinois featuring a double-dose of action with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League alongside the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League. Thursday, both divisions tackle the fan and driver favorite of Fayette County Speedway in Brownstown, Illinois. ...more

Belleville, IL – By the time the checkered flew with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, Minden, Nevada’s Tanner Thorson stood on the front stretch taking the win in POWRi’s Sixth Annual Illinois SPEED Week opener at Belle-Clair Speedway. Thorson’s win at Belle-Clair is his seventh win during Illinois SPEED Week competition, adding to his hefty hedge over Michael Pickens, the next closest with three Illinois SPEED Week wins. Starting mid-pack in the 9th position, Thorson charged...more

Brownstown, IL – If there was any question about last night’s dominating performance with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League at Belle-Clair Speedway in the opening night of the Sixth Annual POWRi Illinois SPEED Week, Tanner Thorson doubled down and won night two at Fayette County Speedway. By virtue of the pole position after earning high point honors, Thorson led every lap of the feature event, stretching his lead during long green flag runs. Enduring three yellows and one open red,...more

Jacksonville, IL – At the end of the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League show at Jacksonville Speedway, Logan Seavey stood victorious for his fourth career win with the League. Seavey’s victory came in the third night of the Sixth Annual POWRi Illinois SPEED Week. Tanner Thorson, the SPEED Week point leader heading into Jacksonville Speedway dropped out with mechanical woes in the feature event, deflating any chances he had of going three-in-a-row. Starting ninth on the grid, Seavey went...more