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Andy Baugh from Mason City, Illinois tops the field at Lincoln Speedway's Championship night. With a stacked field of 22 starters, Baugh holds of hard charging Tyler Vantoll and Adam Taylor to close out the season at Lincoln Speedway.

The POWRi Division II Midgets are set to open up this Friday and Saturday, with a doubleheader weekend at two Central Illinois tracks. On Friday, the nimble racecars visit Lincoln Speedway, the 1/4-mile dirt track in Lincoln, IL, for their season opener. Then on Saturday, the series will head 45 minutes southeast to Macon Speedway, in Macon, IL. On Friday night, the headlining event is the Railsplitter 40 for the Midwest Street Stock Championship Series. It's a brand new series, which will be...more

Indianapolis, IN - Gedd Ross came from the fifth starting position to win the POWRi Division II Midgets Season Opener at Lincoln Speedway in Lincoln, Illinois on April 21, 2017. Mitchell Davis, Tyler Vantoll, Christopher Baue, and Dave Baugh rounded out the top five. Davis and Andy Baugh would take home heat race victories. Baue was the Hard Charger passing eight cars to finish fourth. The POWRi Division II Midgets are back in action April 22 at Macon Speedway in Macon, Illinois. POWRi...more

VANTOLL VICTORIOUS AT LINCOLN Lincoln, IL (May 5, 2017) - Tyler Vantoll scored the POWRi Lucas Oil Division II Midget win at Lincoln Speedway in Lincoln, Illinois on Friday, May 5, 2017. Mitchell Davis, Andy Baugh, Dave Baugh, and Broc Hunnell rounded out the top five. Mitchell Davis took home a heat race victory after starting sixth. Broc Hunnell started eighth and passed three cars to finish fifth which earned him the Hard Charger title. The POWRi Lucas Oil Division II Midgets are back in...more

Indianapolis, IN - The Official 2017 POWRi Illinois Speed Week t-shirts are available for pre-order at http://www.powri.com/shopping/?ic=14110. They are available in black, red, and gray in limited supplies (adult sizes only). All shirts pre-ordered on the POWRi website will be shipped out on Tuesday, May 30. POWRi kicks off the first of a five-night series known as Illinois Speed Week on Wednesday, May 31 at the Dirt Oval at Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois featuring the POWRi Lucas Oil National...more

Belleville, IL – With the Fifth Annual Illinois SPEED Week on the horizon, fans and teams are hoping that Mother Nature plays nicely after a wet start to 2017 throughout the Midwest. Set to be bigger than ever, the Fifth Annual Illinois SPEED Week will host racing from the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, POWRi Lucas Oil Division II Midget League, the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League, and new for 2017, the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprint Car League. New to the Illinois...more

Belleville, IL – With the Fifth Annual Illinois SPEED Week on the horizon, fans and teams are hoping that Mother Nature plays nicely after a wet start to 2017 throughout the Midwest. Set to be bigger than ever, the Fifth Annual Illinois SPEED Week will host racing from the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, POWRi Lucas Oil Division II Midget League, the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League, and new for 2017, the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprint Car League. New to the Illinois...more

Macon, IL – With three of five POWRi Illinois SPEED Week shows completed, Michael Pickens of Auckland, New Zealand leads the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League SPEED Week point standings by a mere 10 points over Keith Kunz Motorsports driver, Tanner Thorson. With two shows left, tonight’s Macon Speedway in Macon, Illinois and tomorrow’s Lincoln Speedway in Lincoln, Illinois, both tracks have unique characteristics that could change the outcome for the POWRi Illinois SPEED Week...more

Lincoln, IL – After an impressive last lap win at Macon Speedway, Nick Howard doubled down, collecting his third career POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League feature victory during the fifth and final night of the 2017 POWRi Illinois SPEED Week at Lincoln Speedway. Starting outside the front row to Nathan Benson, at the drop of the green flag, Benson went to work on the bottom while Howard screamed the top side of the Lincoln Speedway racing surface. Enduring multiple yellows,...more

Lincoln, IL – Logan Seavey, the leading candidate for not only the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League Rookie of the Year, but also a contender for the championship, captured his first career victory with the league at Lincoln Speedway in the fifth and final night of the 2017 POWRi Illinois SPEED Week. Starting in the 12th position, the Sutter, California native carefully crept his way towards the front, almost appearing out of nowhere to the top three a little past halfway. Trailing...more