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Macon, IL – In a race that kept fans on the edge of their seat, Kevin Thomas, Jr. claimed his third win of 2018 with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, the Fourth Annual Rich Camfield Memorial. Thomas Jr.’s other two wins include his sweep of POWRi’s Inaugural Sunshine State Midget Challenge in Florida. Starting outside row three, Thomas, Jr. had his work cut out for him when the green flag flew as pole sitter Tanner Carrick set a blistering pace with Tyler Thomas and Zach Daum in...more

Macon, IL– In dominating style, Jordan Howell fended off Austin Schaeffer to collect his first-career POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League victory. Starting on the pole with current POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League point leader, Schaeffer, to his outside, Howell jumped into the early lead and led all 20 laps to victory. With only two cautions slowing the field, Howell was able to keep Schaeffer at a comfortable distance, as Schaeffer tried the bottom, middle, and top...more

ELDON, MO (August 17, 2018) - Capitalizing on a late-race mistake from Landon Simon, Wyatt Burks of Topeka, Kansas stormed into the race lead on the 21st circuit and held on for his seventh-career POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints League victory tonight at Lake Ozark Speedway. After Simon commanded the opening 20 laps, a costly mistake drifting over the cushion in turn two allowed Burks to throw the slider and take the top spot. He then fended off Simon's final attempt for the win a...more

Sunday, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League breakaway and head to the Badger state for the annual Miller Lite Cornfest at Angell Park Speedway. The Miller Lite sponsored event will take place in conjunction with the annual Sweet Corn Festival hosted by the Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce. Sunday will be the first appearance of the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League in Miller Lite Cornfest competition in nearly half a decade. Heading into the Camfield Memorial, Tucker Klaasmeyer...more

Belleville, IL – This weekend, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League are set to invade the mighty Macon Speedway for the Fourth Annual Rich Camfield Memorial. The Fourth Annual Rich Camfield Memorial honors the late Rich Camfield, a tremendous supporter of midget racing, nationwide. Saturday’s show at Macon Speedway will be the final visit in 2018 for POWRi. Heading into the Camfield Memorial, Tucker Klaasmeyer holds a 70-point...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (August 13, 2018) – The Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA will make its debut appearance of the 2018 season at Sapulpa, Oklahoma’s Creek County Speedway this Thursday night. The Midget series will accompany the night’s $2,500-to-win USAC Southwest Sprint Car “Freedom Tour” event in a special non-points event for the POWRi West Midget ranks. Parity has prevailed in the POWRi West Midget ranks thus far in 2018 with 15 different...more

OSKALOOSA, IA (August 7, 2018) - Storming from fifth-to-first in the opening four laps, Kevin Thomas Jr. commanded the field for the closing 21 laps as he dominated Tuesday night's "Ultimate Challenge" with the WAR Wildcard Sprints at Southern Iowa Speedway. Sneaking by Isaac Chapple on the bottom on the fourth circuit, Thomas Jr. of Cullman, Alabama ensued to throw the hotel keys on the counter and check out, as he parked the Indy Race Parts No. 71 in victory lane and stood victorious with...more

SUN PRAIRIE, WI (August 5, 2018) - The POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Wildcard Sprints were just minutes away from firing the feature field during Sunday's debut of the league at Angell Park Speedway, when strong and persistent rain hit the Sun Prairie, Wisconsin facility, forcing officials to unfortunately cancel the highly-anticipated main event. Before the rain hit, a near full program of four heat races and a semi-feature was conducted with a group of 28 entrants that showed up to the historic...more

Wilmot, WI (August 4, 2018) - On a record setting night in more ways than one, it was Princeton, Indiana's Kyle Cummins who showed up to Wilmot Raceway and kicked off his POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Wildcard Sprint League career with a bang, as he triumphed in his first-ever attempt with the league. Surging by early leader Korey Weyant and into the top spot on the seventh circuit, Cummins ensued to run away from the field in dominating fashion for a cool $2,000 payday in the Badger State. Attracting a...more

Pevely, MO – Snapping a winless streak at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55, Tyler Thomas claimed the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget League show, leading all 30 laps on his way to a dominant victory over a hard-charging Jason McDougal and POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League point leader Tucker Klaasmeyer. Thomas’s victory in the 2018 Ironman is the 11th of his career and his first with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League in 2018. Starting on the pole, Thomas wasted no...more