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SAPULPA, OKLA. (June 22, 2019) – Scoring his first victory of 2019 with the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League, Tyler Thomas of Collinsville, Okla. was the top dog on Friday night as he controlled the Executive Concrete / Snatch-It A-Main on night one of the Sooner Showdown at Creek County Speedway. With a strong 27-car field on hand, a trio of heat races set the stage for the 25-lap main event. Points leader Andrew Felker of Carl Junction Mo. topped Smith Titanium heat one, Thomas drove the...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (July 22, 2019) – The POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League fires back off this weekend with a doubleheader of the Oklahoma Midget Nationals. The action kicks off on Friday, July 26 with a trip to Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa, Okla. followed by a stop at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Saturday, July 27. In the opening 15 races of the year, Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, Mo. has built a dominant point lead and grabbed firm control of the championship...more

SAPULPA, OKLA. (July 26, 2019) – Matt Sherrell of Owasso, Okla. was the top dog on Friday night at Creek County Speedway, claiming his first POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League victory of the 2019 season on night one of the Oklahoma Midget Nationals. A pair of Andrew’s added heat race wins over the 18-car field to start the night as Andrew Deal of Caney, Kans. topped Smith Titanium heat one and Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, Mo. won Keizer Wheels heat two. Earning high point man honors on the...more

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (August 14, 2019) – Returning to form this weekend, the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League splits the slate between the 918 and the 405. Following a Friday appearance at Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa, Okla., the league heads to I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City on Saturday night for the season’s most meaningful race, the Grady Chandler Benefit. Scheduled to open the weekend at Sapulpa’s Creek County Speedway, the POWRi West combatants will tackle the CCS...more

SAPULPA, OKLA. (August 16, 2019) – Leading from wire-to-wire, Jonathan Beason of Broken Arrow, Okla. controlled Friday’s POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League main event at Creek County Speedway from start-to-finish, earning his third win of the 2019 season. Rolling a five-car inversion for the feature, Andrew Felker went from high point man to a fifth-place starting spot as Jonathan Beason and Kyle Jones assumed the front row of the 25-lap feature. Jumping into the lead, Beason immediately...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 4, 2020) – Quickly morphing into a marquee event on the POWRi calendar, the Turnpike Challenge has experienced a meteoric rise to national prominence since debuting in 2014. A thrilling four-race swing throughout the “Sooner State,” the 2020 TPC is only three weeks away from kick starting a new campaign for the POWRi Lucas Oil National / West Midgets and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. From Creek County to I-44 to Port City, teams will be tested...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 6, 2020) – With over half of their schedule (15 of 27 races) aligning with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League in co-sanctioned events, each and every showdown for the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League is crucial in not only the championship chase, but valued experience against the nation’s best. Starting each year at home, the West racers come into the Turnpike Challenge with the slight advantage of racing on home turf, an edge that has proven invaluable on a...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 11, 2020) – Since joining the Turnpike Challenge in 2017, the Oklahoma mini-series has been the annual season opener for the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. That remains the same in 2020 when the mighty micros support the National / West Midgets at a quartet of events racing from Creek County Speedway (March 26), I-44 Riverside Speedway (March 27-28) and Port City Raceway (March 29). Parity has been king for the Outlaw Micros since their debut in 2017,...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 11, 2020) – For the first time since their POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League championship campaign in 2017, Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.), crew chief Flea Ruzic, and owner Steve Reynolds will reunite in POWRi action at Team Ripper. Racing the seventh annual Turnpike Challenge (March 26-29), Seavey will drive the No. 21KS with Ruzic on the wrenches when the season opener heads for Creek County Speedway, I-44 Riverside Speedway and Port City Raceway in Oklahoma. A...more