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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 – 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

(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

(Photo by A to Z Photography) GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. – After a strong first season in midget competition in 2016, Overland Park, Kan. driver Luke Howard will make his foray into National midget action for the first time this weekend against the POWRi National and West Midget Leagues. Friday night, the youngster looks to be in action for his third appearance of the year at Valley Speedway in Grain Valley, Mo., and then may possibly add another track to his list, dependent on Friday’s result, as the...more

Belleville, IL - This weekend, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League, and POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint Car League make the annual trek to Valley Speedway on Friday, May 5th and kick off the Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals. A thrilling, fan favorite weekend, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League will be up against a stout field of regulars at Valley Speedway Friday night when they take on the POWRi Lucas Oil...more

Will fill schedule with local weekly Friday & Saturday night eventsMatt Moore 2017 Tentative Race ScheduleMARCH 24 I-44 Riverside Speedway Okc, Ok POWRi National Midget $2k/$200 & Outlaw $750 25 I-44 Riverside Speedway Okc, Ok POWRi National Midget $3k/$300 & Outlaw $750 30 I-44 Riverside Speedway Okc, Ok Red Dirt Nationals Outlaw $1k/$100, A Class & Non Wing APRIL 1 I-44 Riverside Speedway Okc, Ok Red Dirt Nationals Outlaw $1k/$100, A Class & Non Wing 8 I-44 Riverside...more

(Photo by High Fly-N Photos) Inside Line Promotions – GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. (July 18, 2017) – Zane Hendricks had a rocket of a race car throughout the first half of the main event during both nights of last weekend’s POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets Series doubleheader at Valley Speedway. “We had a lot of speed, but we didn’t get the end results that we wanted,” he said. The two-day show, which was co-sanctioned with the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midgets Series, started on Friday when Hendricks...more

After a rain-out last weekend, Oakes Motorsports will head north to Grain Valley Speedway Friday night and Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday night, both nights will be with the Powri National and Powri West Midgets.