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Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (May 9, 2018) – The action will be intense on Saturday night as the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA storms into Tulsa’s Port City Raceway. Saturday’s card will mark the lone appearance of the year for the mighty Midgets of the POWRi West Midget league atop the cozy confines of the racy, 1/8-mile Port City Raceway clay oval. It will also be the first Midget competition at Port City Raceway since Caney, KS, shoe Andrew Deal...more

Jacksonville, IL – Ryan Robinson of Foresthill, California was deemed the winner of the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League feature event at Jacksonville Speedway after fellow Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports teammate Tucker Klaasmeyer was penalized for jumping out of line on a late race restart. Jacksonville was night one of the two day Midwest Season Opener weekend. Saturday’s show is at Macon Speedway. Starting outside the sixth row, the initial start was called back after Presley...more

Schudy Scores POWRi West Win at Port City Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (May 12, 2018) – Springfield, Missouri’s Kory Schudy padded his Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA points lead by racing to victory lane in Saturday night’s 25-lap feature atop the 1/8-mile Port City Raceway. Schudy assumed the point when early leader Jonathan Beason surrendered the lead after a mid-race red flag and then denied Matt Sherrell’s advances over the final rounds to secure...more

Macon, IL – For the second time in 2018, and the fourth to his POWRi career-credit, Logan Seavey came out on top in POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League competition. Seavey’s win rounds out POWRi’s Midwest Season Opener weekend, with tonight’s show at Macon Speedway. Starting inside row two, Seavey had his work cut out for him as pole-sitter and early race leader Joe B. Miller put on a strong showing. Seavey fell in line in the second position while Tucker Klaasmeyer and Jason McDougal...more

Belleville, IL – This weekend the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League take to two high-banked bullrings for the 2nd Annual Southern Illinois Shootout. Friday night both divisions will be at Belle-Clair Speedway before heading to Southern Illinois Raceway on Saturday. Tackling the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, NASCAR stars Christopher Bell and Chase Briscoe are prepared to run both nights. Both drivers originally got their...more

Inside Line Promotions – OWASSO, Okla. (May 17, 2018) – The Midget Round Up took a huge leap forward last year and anticipation is high that growth will continue during the third edition of the marquee event. The midget car count nearly doubled last year when 40 drivers competed during the two-day event at Airport Raceway in Garden City, Kan. TBJ Promotions Founder Tony Bruce Jr. believes there will be a similar car count during this year’s event on May 26-27. “A great group of POWRi West and...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (May 22, 2018) – A Memorial Day weekend double is on tap for the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA as the series takes to Garden City, Kansas’ Airport Raceway for this weekend’s “Midget Roundup”. The POWRi West Midget ranks will take on the Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association (RMMRA) in the TBJ Promotions event atop the racy, 1/5-mile clay oval with the Saturday portion offering up a $1,200 winner’s share and then Sunday’s...more

Sycamore, IL, May 23---Tyler Baran, coming off a second-place finish in the Zimbrick Chevrolet of Sun Prairie Badger Midget Racing Series season opener, leads the series into Saturday Nights May 26 event at Sycamore Speedway. The event will be co-sanctioned with the POWRi Lucas Oil Regional Midget Series. Baran enters the event third in series points, trailing Bill Balog and former series champion Kevin Olson. Baron won the Badger Midget feature at the 1/3-mile clay oval on September 10,...more

Lonnie Wheatley, GARDEN CITY, Kan. (May 26, 2018) – A 500-miler is apropos for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. And that’s nearly the distance that Nixa, Missouri’s Wesley Smith journeyed for this weekend’s “Midget Roundup” at the 1/5-mile Airport Raceway in southwest Kansas pitting the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA against the Lucas Oil POWRi Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association. Smith made the most of it in Saturday night’s opening leg, emerging...more

Sycamore, Ill., May 26---Scott Hatton won the 25-lap Zimbrick Chevrolet of Sun Prairie Badger Midget Racing Series feature Saturday Night at Sycamore Speedway. The event was co-sanctioned with the POWRi Lucas Oil Regional Midget Series. Zach Boden paced the opening lap, before Chase McDermand moved in to the lead, one lap later Hatton was in third place. The field was slowed for a multi-car tangle on the fifth lap. On the restart McDermand led Boden and Hatton. Two laps Hatton claimed the...more