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TULSA, OKLA. (April 24, 2019) – A thrilling doubleheader in “The 918” awaits the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League heading into their first standalone weekend of the 2019 season. Scheduled for Midget Mayhem on April 26 and April 27, the West Midgets will encounter Sapulpa’s Creek County Speedway on Friday night followed by a trip to Tulsa’s Port City Raceway on Saturday. With four co-sanctioned shows along with the POWRi National Midgets and one rain out at I-44 Riverside Speedway in the...more

Belleville, IL – Tomorrow’s 28th Annual Arnie Knepper Memorial featuring action from the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool 600cc Outlaw Micro League has been cancelled due to the continuous rainfall over the past three days. POWRi and Belle-Clair Speedway officials are actively seeking a date for rescheduling. “The rain gauge at the track shows three inches of rain,” commented Brian Thompson of Belle-Clair Speedway. This spring hasn’t been kind to...more

(Torrance, CA, April 24, 2019) Five-time series champion Bobby Michnowicz etched his name onto the victory ledger for the first time in 2019 when he won the POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series main event in a thrilling finish last Saturday night at the Bakersfield Speedway. The victory was Michnowicz first at the Kern County clay oval since 2017. Twenty-seven CLS cars took time trials at the longtime track that is referred to as “The West’s Fastest 1/3 Mile High Banked...more

Grain Valley: Pat Schudy returned to victory lane Friday night in POWRi Valley Outlaw Midget action leading from start to finish in the feature event. For the veteran driver who will be 60 years old in September, it was his first win in the series since 2014 when he won the championship. His 7s Machine was fast all night for the Springfield, Mo. ace as he earned the pole position for the 20 lapper by scoring the most passing points in his heat. Schudy credited his chief mechanic Jeff...more

Sapulpa, Okla. (April 27, 2019) – It was Midget Mayhem indeed on Friday night at Creek County Speedway as Jonathan Beason and Cannon McIntosh delivered an exciting conclusion to the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League main event. Only one month removed from his insane Turnpike Challenge triumph over Christopher Bell, Beason came back out to play and once again found victory lane, this time by fending off McIntosh’s late-race sliders and topping a stacked 26-car field. The night began with a...more

Tulsa, Okla. (April 28, 2019) (Photo Credit: Danny Clum) - From early stage sliders to late-race trials, Carl Junction, Missouri’s Andrew Felker encountered it all en route to his POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League win on Saturday night at Port City Raceway. Driving the Chad Shields Racing, Hyper No. 44S, Felker, who was the 2012 POWRi National Midget champion and grew up in the micro sprint ranks at PCR, led 19 of 25 feature laps. With 23 cars in attendance for round two of “Midget Mayhem,”...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 1, 2019) – The POWRi BCRA Lucas Oil Midget League resumes this weekend with appearances at The Dirt Track at Kern County Raceway Park on Friday, May 3 followed by a Saturday, May 4 race on the pavement at Madera Speedway. Friday’s event at Kern County marks the second of three POWRi BCRA visits to the Bakersfield facility, the first of which was won by Chase Johnson over Jake Swanson and Maria Cofer in March. Saturday’s Madera Speedway race is also the second appearance...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 1, 2019) – After the entire tripleheader of Belle-Clair, I-55, and Jacksonville was washed away last weekend, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League is heading for the “Show-Me State.” The superstars of the National Midgets will join forces with the up-and-coming gassers of the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League for a two-day showdown at Valley Speedway on May 3 and Lucas Oil Speedway on May 4. Opening the weekend will be a visit to Grain Valley, Missouri’s Valley...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 1, 2019) – Due to heavy rain throughout the week paired with a forecast expecting more showers, officials have made the call to cancel Friday’s event at Valley Speedway for the POWRi Lucas Oil National/West Midgets and the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League. Saturday’s race at Lucas Oil Speedway is still on as scheduled and plans to proceed without a hitch. With a state-of-the-art facility that includes a phenomenal drainage system and paved pit area, the hard-working crew...more

Lonnie Wheatley, BIXBY, Okla. (May 3, 2019) – Kaylee Bryson notched her first top-ten finish in Midget racing competition with the POWRi West Midget League at Sapulpa, Oklahoma’s Creek County Speedway last Friday night. Now, the 18-year-old from Muskogee, OK, makes her first visit to Wheatland, Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday night for a Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget event. “It will be my first time to go there, I’m excited to be racing there,” Bryson says. Last week originally...more