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OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (July 29, 2019) – After a sprint car crash on Friday night left 18-year old Edmond, Okla. native Grady Chandler hospitalized with serious injuries, a group of racers and promoters quickly came together to create the Grady Chandler Benefit Race, a POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League event scheduled for Saturday, August 17 at I-44 Riverside Speedway. Injured in a non-wing sprint car crash on Friday night at Creek County Speedway, Grady suffered a severe neck injury with...more

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (July 27, 2019) – Continuing his stellar championship or bust campaign, Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, Mo. added another POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League win on Saturday night at I-44 Riverside Speedway. Piloting the Chad Shields Racing, MelMark Pipe & Supply, Ripper/Fontana No. 44S, Felker executed a late-race move on Blake Edwards to secure his fourth win of the year. Earning high point man honors with a seventh-to-third heat race run, Blake Edwards of Claremore,...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (July 22, 2019) – The POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League fires back off this weekend with a doubleheader of the Oklahoma Midget Nationals. The action kicks off on Friday, July 26 with a trip to Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa, Okla. followed by a stop at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Saturday, July 27. In the opening 15 races of the year, Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, Mo. has built a dominant point lead and grabbed firm control of the championship...more

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (May 15, 2019) – I-44 Riverside Speedway’s red dirt will be on full display this Saturday, May 18 as the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League returns to the Oklahoma City 1/5th-mile for a one-night stand. Scheduled for five appearances in 2019, the POWRi West Midgets first took to I-44 back in March alongside the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets as part of the sixth annual “Turnpike Challenge.” Sutter, California’s Logan Seavey, the 2017 POWRi National Midget champion, swept...more

(Photo courtesy of POWRi) Inside Line Promotions – TULSA, Okla. (March 30, 2021) – Brenham Crouch powered to a career-best runner-up result behind the wheel of a midget last Saturday. The second-place showing highlighted a stellar weekend during the 8th annual Turnpike Challenge as the Toyota Racing backed Keith Kunz Motorsports driver won a pair of heat races, garnered the podium performance and finished with two top 10s in three POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League feature starts. “It was...more

Belleville, IL. (05/10/2021) Teams and Drivers of the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League are gearing up for their return to racing this coming Saturday, May 15th. I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, OK. will host the one-night event for the series. Alongside the POWRi West Midget Drivers, a handful of Micro Sprint classes will be on the docket as well. With five races in the books so far for the 2021 season, this will be the first race solely as a POWRi West show. The drivers will take...more

Belleville, IL. (4/26/24) Due to soaking precipitation with more impending rain forecasted, I-44 Riverside Speedway in connection with POWRi West Midget League officials has decided to cancel the full upcoming event scheduled for Saturday, April 27th. Next up for the POWRi West Midget League will be a venture with the POWRi National Midget League competing at Callaway Raceway for the first time in League history on Friday, May 3rd before traveling to Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday, May 4th for...more

(Photo by RCM Design) Inside Line Promotions – HAUBSTADT, Ind. (Oct. 13, 2020) – Brenham Crouch is venturing to Oklahoma this weekend for a tripleheader with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. Crouch will be behind the wheel of a Toyota Racing sponsored midget for Keith Kunz Motorsports on Thursday at Port City Raceway in Tulsa and on Friday and Saturday at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City. Thursday’s event is the Donnie Ray Crawford Sooner State 55, which will feature a...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 4, 2020) – Quickly morphing into a marquee event on the POWRi calendar, the Turnpike Challenge has experienced a meteoric rise to national prominence since debuting in 2014. A thrilling four-race swing throughout the “Sooner State,” the 2020 TPC is only three weeks away from kick starting a new campaign for the POWRi Lucas Oil National / West Midgets and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. From Creek County to I-44 to Port City, teams will be tested...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 6, 2020) – With over half of their schedule (15 of 27 races) aligning with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League in co-sanctioned events, each and every showdown for the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League is crucial in not only the championship chase, but valued experience against the nation’s best. Starting each year at home, the West racers come into the Turnpike Challenge with the slight advantage of racing on home turf, an edge that has proven invaluable on a...more