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Belleville, IL. – This Saturday, May 5th the POWRi Lucas Oil Division II Midgets will kick off the 2018 season at Sycamore Speedway. This is the first of nine events with five of the events being co-sanctioned with Badger Midgets BMARA. The Horizon Carpentry Spring Shootout season opener will be the first race under the newly revised 2.4 engine rules. Horizon Carpentry located in Elgin Illinois has added a $1000.00 to the purse. The race will now pay $500 to WIN...more

SYCAMORE, IL (May 5, 2018) - May 5 was the return of the POWRi D2 Series to Sycamore Speedway for the Horizon Carpentry spring opener. Ryan Probst of New Lenox IL in the family owned 99 Lucas Oil sponsored midget won the twenty lap feature after a hard fought battle with Jack Rouston and Tyler Baron. Probst and Rouston ran side by side till mechanical problems caused Rouston to fall out of the lead pack late in the race. The mid pack battle between Jason Allen 28,Sean Murphey 5 and Craig...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (May 9, 2018) – The action will be intense on Saturday night as the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA storms into Tulsa’s Port City Raceway. Saturday’s card will mark the lone appearance of the year for the mighty Midgets of the POWRi West Midget league atop the cozy confines of the racy, 1/8-mile Port City Raceway clay oval. It will also be the first Midget competition at Port City Raceway since Caney, KS, shoe Andrew Deal...more

Sycamore, IL, May 23---Tyler Baran, coming off a second-place finish in the Zimbrick Chevrolet of Sun Prairie Badger Midget Racing Series season opener, leads the series into Saturday Nights May 26 event at Sycamore Speedway. The event will be co-sanctioned with the POWRi Lucas Oil Regional Midget Series. Baran enters the event third in series points, trailing Bill Balog and former series champion Kevin Olson. Baron won the Badger Midget feature at the 1/3-mile clay oval on September 10,...more

Sycamore, Ill., May 26---Scott Hatton 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. Zach Boden paced the opening lap, before Chase McDermand moved in to the lead, one lap later Hatton was in third place. The field was slowed for a multi-car tangle on the fifth lap. On the restart McDermand led Boden and Hatton. Two laps Hatton claimed the...more

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

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 – At the conclusion of POWRi Illinois SPEED Week, Logan Seavey captured the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League Championship. Winning Night Three at Jacksonville Speedway, combined with a fifth place finish in the SPEED Week opener at Belle-Clair Speedway and a third place finish at Fayette County in Night Two, Seavey capitalized on Tanner Thorson’s misfortune at Jacksonville Speedway and was able to snag the POWRi Illinois SPEED Week title. In addition to Seavey’s POWRi...more