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BELLEVILLE, ILL. (March 11, 2020) – For the first time since their POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League championship campaign in 2017, Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.), crew chief Flea Ruzic, and owner Steve Reynolds will reunite in POWRi action at Team Ripper. Racing the seventh annual Turnpike Challenge (March 26-29), Seavey will drive the No. 21KS with Ruzic on the wrenches when the season opener heads for Creek County Speedway, I-44 Riverside Speedway and Port City Raceway in Oklahoma. A...more

By POWRi (Oklahoma City, OK) -- Michael “Buddy” Kofoid would rise to the occasion at I-44 Riverside Speedway, rallying in the last corner of the last lap to edge out Christopher Bell for the Lucas Oil POWRi National & West Midget League feature victory on Night Two of the Turnpike Challenge presented by SuperClean. PHOTO CREDIT:Danny Clum With a stout entry list of twenty-three competitors signing into the event, Christopher Bell would set the top-time in hot lap competition at 11.254-seconds...more

By POWRi (Oklahoma City, OK) -- Michael “Buddy” Kofoid notched his second straight Lucas Oil POWRi National & West Midget League feature victory at I-44 Riverside Speedway, leading every lap on the way to wrapping up the Ninth Annual Turnpike Challenge presented by Super Clean. PHOTO CREDIT: Danny Clum Checking in a stout field of twenty-two Lucas Oil POWRi National & West Midget League competitors for the final night of the season-opening weekend of racing would witness Chance Crum clock the...more

(Photo by Jessica Edmiston Photography) Inside Line Promotions – TULSA, Okla. (June 2, 2020) – Brenham Crouch captured a top five and two top 10s during a busy weekend of racing, but most importantly he gained a book’s worth of knowledge. Crouch improved throughout his first three starts in a midget while making his debut with Keith Kunz Motorsports during the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League’s 7th annual Turnpike Challenge. “It was fierce competition and was harder than I thought it...more

By POWRi PR (Oklahoma City, OK) -- The POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget Leagues' two-day stint at I-44 Riverside Speedway during the seventh annual Turnpike Challenge would take center stage Saturday night as 58 distinct talents would check into the pits in hopes of gaining POWRi glory. In an action-packed slider-filled feature a new name has been added to the all-time win tally as Michael "Buddy" Kofoid would claim the night's top spot. The feature action was all over I-44 Riverside...more

By POWRi PR (Oklahoma City, OK) -- POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget competitors from all over would show up in huge numbers to Night 1 of the 7th Annual Turnpike Challenge at I-44 Riverside Speedway. With sixty-one total drivers signing into the pits the great racing action on track would keep fans in attendance on the edge of their seats the whole night as Logan Seavey would park his #19az in victory lane. Leading all thirty circuits around I-44 Riverside Speedway Logan Seavey would...more

(Photo by Danny the Shoe Clum Motorsports) Inside Line Promotions – TULSA, Okla. (May 26, 2020) – Brenham Crouch is heading into one of the biggest weekends of his career. The young micro sprint competitor will make his midget debut for Keith Kunz Motorsports during the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League’s 7th annual Turnpike Challenge, which runs Thursday at Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa, Okla.; Friday and Saturday at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, Okla.; and Sunday at Port...more

By Lonnie Wheatley (Oklahoma City, OK) -- 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. PHOTO CREDIT: Mike Howard 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...more

Day 2 of the POWRi West midget weekend sent us back to where the season started, I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, OK. Now that the Flying Tee Golf sponsored #24 had been tried and tested, Fischer Racing was ready to tackle the 1/5 mile dirt track (with a fresh set of brake pads) against a field of 20 cars. The new BOSS chassis must be good luck... Hunter drew onto the pole position of the 1st heat for 2nd time this weekend! Showing off the new Flying Tee Golf paint scheme, Hunter...more

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