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Indianapolis, IN - The POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprint League is set to join the POWRi Illinois SPEED Week roster for the first time ever. The WAR East Sprints will compete in three of the total five nights of SPEED Week. Please find WAR payout details below. 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 WAR East Sprints plus National and D-II Midgets. Thursday,...more

Airport Raceway lends itself to two first-time POWRi West winners Tulsa, OK (May 30, 2017) Memorial Day weekend saw the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League, presented by HE & M Saw, and the Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association meet up at Airport Raceway in Garden City, Kansas for the second annual Midget Round-Up. Tony Bruce, Jr. and his TBJ Promotions team gave the two series’ and their nearly 40 competitors each night a stellar race track, which provided two grooves of racing all weekend...more

Tulsa, OK (May 30, 2017) Memorial Day weekend saw the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League, presented by HE & M Saw, and the Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association meet up at Airport Raceway in Garden City, Kansas for the second annual Midget Round-Up. Tony Bruce, Jr. and his TBJ Promotions team gave the two series’ and their nearly 40 competitors each night a stellar race track, which provided two grooves of racing all weekend long. Battling Mother Nature on Saturday night, the groups were...more

Joliet, IL – Michael Pickens has only been back in the United States for a short while, but it didn’t take him long to find victory lane with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League for the opening night of Illinois SPEED Week, in what was the league’s inaugural visit to the Dirt Oval at Route 66. Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Pickens won his Speedway Motors heat race from the fourth position, garnering enough points to earn the pole for what would be his ninth career Mesilla Valley...more

Joliet, IL (May 31, 2017) -St. Charles, Missouri native Andy Malpocker picked up the POWRi Lucas Oil D-II Midget victory at The Dirt Oval at Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois on Wednesday evening, May 31. Adam Taylor, Aaron Schuck, Brad Greenup, and Tyler Vantoll rounded out the top five. Schuck and Greenup were heat race winners. Jack Routson passed five cars to finish sixth in the A-Main event, earning him the Hard Charger title. The POWRi Lucas Oil D-II Midget League is headed to Fairbury...more

Fairbury, IL – After a relatively quiet start to POWRi Illinois SPEED Week for Tanner Thorson, the driver returned to victory lane with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League for his first 2017 win, this time for night number two of POWRi Illinois SPEED Week at Fairbury American Legion Speedway. The Minden, Nevada native started fifth and quickly worked his way towards the front, battling early on with Auckland, New Zealand’s Michael Pickens, POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League Rookie...more

Fairbury, IL (June 1, 2017) - Mitchell Davis picked up the POWRi Lucas Oil D-II Midget victory Thursday night, June 1 at Fairbury American Legion Speedway in Fairbury, Illinois. Aaron Schuck, Brent Burrows, Shane Morgan, and Andy Baugh rounded out the top five. Morgan and Davis each won a heat race at FALS. Schuck passed eight cars to finish runner up which earned him the Hard Charger title. The POWRi Lucas Oil D-II Midgets are back in action Friday, June 2 at Jacksonville Speedway in...more

Jacksonville, IL (June 2, 2017) - Andy Malpocker scored the POWRi Lucas Oil Division II Midget feature win Friday night, June 2 at Jacksonville Speedway in Jacksonville, Illinois. Gedd Ross, Broc Hunnell, Brent Burrows, and Tyson Hart rounded out the top five. Burrows and McDermand were heat race winners. Tyler Vantoll was the Hard Charger after starting eighteenth and finishing sixth. The POWRi Lucas Oil Division II Midget League is back in action Saturday, June 3 at Macon Speedway in Macon,...more

Jacksonville, IL – Tanner Thorson has hit his stride, doubling down and winning the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League feature for night number three of POWRi Illinois SPEED Week at Jacksonville Speedway. Winning the previous night’s event at Fairbury American Legion Speedway with a last lap, last corner pass, rather than waiting until the final corner to make his move, Thorson took the lead midway and was on the defending side rather than the offensive from the previous night. Starting...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