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SPEED Week Championship Down To Final Event Sunday At Lincoln Speedway (Macon, IL) After completing the first three events of the 2018 POWRi Illinois SPEEDWEEK, rain hit hard on Saturday morning in Macon, Illinois, forcing the cancelation of the Macon Speedway event. Drivers, officials, and fans are left highly disappointed as the event was sure to be huge with a great field of cars and the typical crazy action the Midgets bring to the high banked 1/5-mile dirt track. The Macon Speedway event...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 12, 2018) – The Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA fires back into action with a pair of events in the Sooner State this weekend. The series takes to the ¼-mile Red Dirt Raceway near Meeker on Friday night for the Third Annual Sooner Midget Nationals before moving on to Oklahoma City’s I-44 Riverside Speedway on Saturday night. Both events will count toward POWRi West Sooner Series points as well as POWRi West overall...more

Belleville, IL – At the conclusion of POWRi Illinois SPEED Week, Logan Seavey captured the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League Championship. Winning Night Three at Jacksonville Speedway, combined with a fifth place finish in the SPEED Week opener at Belle-Clair Speedway and a third place finish at Fayette County in Night Two, Seavey capitalized on Tanner Thorson’s misfortune at Jacksonville Speedway and was able to snag the POWRi Illinois SPEED Week title. In addition to Seavey’s POWRi...more

Lonnie Wheatley, MEEKER, Okla. (June 15, 2018) – Nixa, Missouri’s Wesley Smith put the wraps on a perfect night in Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA competition by winning Friday’s 25-lap “Third Annual Sooner Midget Nationals” feature event atop the ¼-mile Red Dirt Raceway clay oval. After winning his heat race earlier in the evening from fourth aboard the All Metal Recycling/Midwest Sheet Metal No. 44 entry to earn BOSS Performance High Point driver of the...more

Lonnie Wheatley, OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (June 16, 2018) – Jonathan Beason has certainly found Oklahoma City’s I-44 Riverside Speedway to his liking, as he raced to his second Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA triumph of the season atop the 1/5-mile clay oval in Saturday night’s 25-lap feature event. The Broken Arrow, OK, racer, who also topped the April 28 event at I-44 Riverside Speedway, assumed the lead on lap 18 and led the rest of the way aboard the Hard...more

Sun Prairie, Wis., June 17--- Former Badger Midget Series Champion Davey Ray won the 20-lap Zimbrick Chevrolet of Sun Prairie Badger Midget Racing Series feature Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. The event was co-sanctioned with the POWRi Lucas Oil Regional Midget Series. The victory for Ray was his first in a Badger sanctioned event since June 12, 2010. Zach Boden took the lead at the drop of the green flag, with Ray passing two cars in the opening lap. Boden continued to lead, with Ray...more

The POWRi Pavement Series returns to action at Grundy County Speedway during NASCAR weekend in the Chicagoland area! POWRi and Grundy County Speedway are proud to announce that on Friday & Saturday, June 29 & 30th our racing events will be will be sponsored by Shorewood Animal Hospital. Shorewood Animal Hospital has been giving excellent care of pets since 1976. Additional purse money has been added to both nights thanks to Shorewood Animal Hospital. The June 30th race will also be the 30 lap...more

Belleville, IL – With the 2018 rain-shortened POWRi Illinois SPEED Week in the books, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League eye the weekend ahead. Friday, the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League will head to Belle-Clair Speedway for the Belle Vegas Bash, staring the micros as the solo-POWRi attraction. Saturday, the Micro League will join up with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and head to the “Mighty Macon...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 27, 2018) – The Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA dips into the Lone Star state for the first time this season with a pair of events this weekend. The weekend’s “Red River Shootout” begins on Friday night with the mighty Midgets taking to the ¼-mile RPM Speedway in Crandall, TX. The weekend in North Texas then wraps up with Saturday night’s “Freedom 25 Midget Championships” atop the ¼-mile Kennedale Speedway Park. Riding...more

Lonnie Wheatley, CRANDALL, Texas (June 29, 2018) – Kyle Jones added his name to the list of 2018 Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA winners by racing to victory lane in Friday night’s 25-lap feature atop the ¼-mile RPM Speedway. The Kennedale, TX, shoe became the ninth different series winner of the year in 12 events by taking the checkered flag after starting third. Pole starter Weston Gorham jumped into the early lead ahead of Wesley Smith and Hank Davis...more