News

THUNDER IN THE VALLEY BRINGS MIDGETS & MICROS ON FRIDAY & SATURDAY GRAIN VALLEY, MO.(July 9, 2019) – A trio of POWRi Racing leagues will converge upon Valley Speedway this Friday and Saturday, July 12-13, as Thunder in the Valley presented by Rod End Supply returns. The two-day show at the Grain Valley, Mo. quarter-mile will feature the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets and the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midgets alongside the POWRi Engler. Machine & Tool Outlaw Micros. An annual July doubleheader,...more

POWRi Lucas Oil Leagues makes Season Changes Belleville, IL. (05/06/2020) Performance Open Wheel Racing Incorporated have updated their schedules through May in an effort to adhere to ongoing public gathering restrictions and special limitations on a state by state basis. Featuring the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget Leagues as well as the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League, Memorial Day Weekend in Grain Valley Missouri, the annual Mid-State Open Wheel Nationals will now be a two-day...more

Grain Valley, MO – In dominating fashion, Jake Neuman snapped the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports winning streak in POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League competition. By winning the second night of the Second Annual Thunder in the Valley, Neuman and his family owned team are now one of three different car owners to capture victories throughout 2018 with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget and West League. Neuman, hailing from New Berlin, Illinois, took the top spot from early race...more

Grain Valley, MO – Picking up his fifth win of 2018, Tucker Klaasmeyer took the checkers in front of a hometown crowd with the POWRi Lucas Oil National, West, and Outlaw Midget Leagues. Klaasmeyer of Paola, Kansas entered victory lane at Valley Speedway, which is the closest track to the hometown of the current point leader with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. Klaasmeyer’s win in the opening night of the Thunder in the Valley weekend also handed Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian...more

Belleville, IL – This weekend kicks off the Second Annual Thunder in the Valley at Valley Speedway in Grain Valley, Missouri. Slated for Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14, the Second Annual Thunder in the Valley will showcase the POWRi Lucas Oil National, West, RMMRA and Outlaw Midget Leagues, and for their first appearance at Valley Speedway, the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League. Typically hosting POWRi midgets during the Open Wheel Showdown and Thunder in the Valley...more

(Photo by A.B.C. Photography) GREENWOOD, Mo. – After a late start to his 2015 season, which didn’t get into full effect until July, Clinton Boyles still turned in impressive stats over the course of the year. Though capturing just one win, Boyles came within inches of two more, and produced a total of eight podium finishes in his 16 feature starts. Boyles began the season with the top two midget series in the country; on May 1, he made his POWRi National Midget debut at Valley Speedway, and...more

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. (June 8, 2012)—New Zealand star Michael Pickens finished two car lengths ahead of Brett Anderson to win the combined POWRi Lucas Oil National/West Midget Series event Friday at Valley Speedway. It was the third straight POWRi victory over the past two seasons for Pickens, a four-time New Zealand Midget champion. The 29-year-old went two-for-two in 2011, winning at Fayette County Speedway in Brownstown, Ill., and Peoria (Ill.) Speedway. Pickens also has POWRi victories in 2005...more

(Photo by High Fly’n Photos) WHEATLAND, Mo. – A POWRi trip to the Show-Me State for a pair of race nights sent Justin Peck on a long journey west from Monrovia, Ind. to two Missouri ovals, seeking his first victory of the season. Running near the front in both events, he was able to bring home third place on Friday at Valley Speedway before a water temperature gauge failure at Lucas Oil Speedway Saturday indicated that the engine was running too hot, with Peck retiring his entry. 35 midgets...more

Dupo, IL (May 4, 2015) He’s a rookie, right? Young Kyle Schuett may be in his first year of midget racing, but he definitely isn’t racing like it. This past weekend, Kyle and his Schuett Racing team loaded up and headed west for the Lucas Oil POWRi - Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals. Beautiful weather and great car counts would be on hand for the two nights of racing in Missouri. The first stop for the weekend was Valley Speedway in Grain Valley and night two was at the amazing facility...more

(Photo by High Fly’n Photos) OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Heading into his sophomore season in the midget ranks, Luke Howard had a new challenge ahead of him: transitioning from his Chevy Ecotec-powered Stealth Chassis into a new BOSS Chassis with a much more powerful Esslinger engine under the hood. Three tries to make a POWRi National Midget main event were unsuccessful, but there were other massive strides made in 2017. Though everyone in the talented 13-year-old’s pit area envisioned his...more