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Belleville, IL – This Friday, June 24th kicks off the annual Race Around the Arch Weekend, with Friday night’s show at the high-banked Belle-Clair Speedway for both the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series and the Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series. Both series will then head to Saint Francois County Raceway on Saturday to race on the D-shaped 3/8 mile. In 2015 fans saw Darren Hagen take the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series win at Saint Francois County Raceway in thrilling...more

The “35th annual Pepsi Midget Nationals,” one of midget racing’s crown jewel events will be run on Sunday, July 3 at Angell Park Speedway. The POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series event will draw some of the sport’s biggest names to 1/3-mile clay oval. Paying $3,000 to win and $500 to start, the feature race will be increased to 35 laps celebrating thirty-five years of the event. Non-qualifiers will receive $300. Angell Park is also celebrating their 70th anniversary season of racing...more

Belleville, IL– With his POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series victory at Belle-Clair Speedway, Tanner Thorson of Minden, Nevada continued the Keith Kunz Motorsports stranglehold on the National Midget scene. Thorson’s victory at Belle-Clair was his sixth triumph of the 2016 season. Starting in the fourth position for the 30 lap main event, Thorson fell in line third at the drop of the green flag and dispatched Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports teammate Spencer Bayston on lap eight,...more

Farmington, MO – Spencer Bayston of Lebanon, Indiana wired the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series feature event at Saint Francois County Raceway. Piloting a Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports Toyota-powered Bullet, Bayston trounced teammate Tanner Thorson on the opening lap and placed distance between eventual second place finisher, Zach Daum. Daum would never seriously close on Bayston until a caution with two to go. On the final restart Bayston wasn’t able to pull Daum by very much,...more

Crandall, TX | June 24, 2016; A debut that has been long awaited for the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget Series at RPM Speedway proved to be better than expected. 17 cars signed in for competition at the fast 1/4 mile speedway, and proceeded to put on an excellent show for the massive crowd in attendance. Two action packed heat races would be won by Steven Shebester and Grady Chandler, with the Integrity Customs High point award going to Shebester. At intermission a fan was chosen from the stands...more

Belleville, IL – After reviewing the data provided by on-track results from POWRi Illinois SPEED Week and races up until present day and comparing that data to information from the races earlier in the season, pre-current rev limiter rules, it has become apparent that the rev limit rules must be adjusted. Effective immediately, POWRi will be going back to the previous rev limits allowed. Gathered data has shown that with the two major types of engine designs (push rod engines and overhead cam...more

This coming Saturday, July 2, Mighty Macon IL Speedway will have its fourth visit of the season from the quick and nimble racers of POWRi. Drivers from a number of different states will be competing with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets, a fan favorite of many. The wicked fast POWRi Speedway Motors Micros will buzz around the 1/5-mile track as well. To top it off, fans of the stock car variety will get to see their UMP Pro Late Models, a Big 10 Street Stock event, and the UMP...more

National Midgets and Micros Head to Belle-Clair on Friday, Fairbury for Midgets on Saturday Belleville, IL – After their final appearance for 2016 at Southern Illinois Raceway, Joe B. Miller stole the show, making a clean sweep of the two POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series visits to the high-banked 1/8th mile in Marion, Illinois. Miller’s win at SIR tallies his 24th career victory, one win out of tying with the all-time winner for the POWRi micros, Dereck King. The POWRi Lucas...more

Belleville, IL – On a hammer-down, running above the cushion Belle-Clair Speedway, it would be Minden, Nevada’s own Tanner Thorson finding his way into victory lane at the conclusion of the 30 lap POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series main event honoring the legendary Arnie Knepper. Grabbing the lead ten laps in from Andy Malpocker, Thorson had to deflect a hard charging Austin Brown who was the first car to attempt running above the tall cushion on the board walls, moving all the way to the...more

Fairbury, IL – In what was the first actual race held at Fairbury American Legion Speedway for the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series due to the initial two being rained out that past two seasons, the racing most definitely did not disappoint. At the drop of the green flag, pole sitter Tanner Thorson took control with eventual race winner and Pocahontas, Illinois native Zach Daum in tow. On a high-banked, hammer down race track, Daum overtook Thorson for the lead on lap four as Garrett...more