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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

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

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

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

Las Cruces, NM (May 26-27, 2017) - Kyle McCutcheon swept the two-day weekend of racing with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR 305 Sprint League at Southern New Mexico Speedway in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Friday, May 26 and Saturday, May 27. McCutcheon started third on Friday night after finishing third in the American Linen Uniform & Supply Dash for Cash earlier in the night, and he started eighth in the twenty-five lap A-Main on Saturday night. Both nights, he found himself in victory lane. Don...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

Grain Valley, MO (May 20, 2017) - Saturday night at Valley Speedway Chad Frewaldt bested Pat Schudy, Chad Winfrey, Dustin Gilbert, and Broc Hunnell, for the win in race number three for the POWRi Lucas Oil Allstar Midget League in 2017. The veteran Kansas City racer passed Schudy after the two-time champion led from his front row starting spot during the first third of the race. Once in the lead, Frewaldt powered to the win. Rough and gummy conditions brought on by pounding rain storms earlier...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

POWRi Lucas Oil West readies for Second Annual Midget Round Up presented by Burtis Motor Company, Inc Tulsa, OK (May 16, 2017) Last year on Labor Day weekend, TBJ Promotions brought together the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by HE&M Saw and the Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association for the inaugural Midget Round Up at Airport Raceway in Garden City, Kansas. After a weekend of great racing, it was quickly decided that the two would meet up again in 2017; but changing it up to...more