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Oklahoma City, OK – When the dust settled, the preliminary night victory for the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget League’s Fifth Annual Turnpike Challenge went to Christopher Bell. No stranger to the red clay, the NASCAR star cut his proverbial dirt track teeth at I-44 Riverside Speedway. Out of the nine Turnpike Challenge feature events, Bell owns seven total wins, with three weekend sweeps to this point. Going into tomorrow night’s finale, Bell’s confidence level is high as he...more

Fischer Racing entered their Flying Tee sponsored #24 into The Fifth Annual Turnpike Challenge this weekend for a 2-day matchup between the POWRi National and West Midget Leagues. Held at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, OK, 65 midget class sprint cars competed for the top spot, including NASCAR Truck series champion and the reigning two-time Chili Bowl Nationals Champion, Christopher Bell. Starting spots are drawn each day. Friday put our driver, Hunter Fischer, in the 1st heat of...more

Jody Rosenboom Racing is in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma this Friday and Saturday with the POWRi National Midget Series for the Turnpike Challenge at the I-44 Riverside Speedway. The team will be competing against some of the best Midget teams in the country, including the likes of Christopher Bell, Jason McDougal, and Tyler Courtney. The POWERi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League will also be in action. JRR will be fielding two cars. Jody Rosenboom, of Rock Rapids, Iowa, will be behind the...more

By Lonnie Wheatley (Indianapolis, IN) -- With no lucky four-leaf clover to be found in Du Quoin, Tyler Courtney now shifts his attention to this weekend’s season-opening POWRi Midget “Turnpike Challenge” at Oklahoma City’s I-44 Riverside Speedway. It will mark Sunshine’s second visit to the cozy 1/5-mile clay oval aboard the Clauson-Marshall Racing Driven2SaveLives/Indiana Donor Network No. 7bc Midget after taking in the opening portion of the event last year. Courtney showed speed in last...more

Belleville, IL – Effective immediately, Performance Open Wheel Racing, Inc. (POWRi) will be the official micro sanctioning body for all classes at both I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, OK and Port City Raceway in Tulsa, OK. By coming under the POWRi banner, Oklahoma micro racers will have a consistent rule package within the industry standards, enabling growth of car counts at both venues. “When racetracks work together, everyone wins,” stated POWRi’s Kenny Brown. “We are excited to...more

Belleville, IL – This Friday and Saturday kicks off the Fifth Annual Turnpike Challenge at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. With practice on Thursday night, teams will have the opportunity to gear up for what has become one of the largest outdoor events of the year, for both midgets and micros. With over 60 POWRi Lucas Oil National and West midgets at last year’s event, Christopher Bell was the class of the field, sweeping the annual co-sanctioned weekend. Bell’s sweep...more

Belleville, IL – The time is once again upon us for midget and micro teams to converge upon I-44 Riverside Speedway in the annual trek to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for the Fifth Annual Turnpike Challenge. Kicking off the weekend with racing on Friday, March 23rd and Saturday, March 24th, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget and POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget Leagues will be battling to see who comes out on top with bragging rights until the annual Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals weekend. An...more

I-44 Speedway Riverside Oklahoma, OK. www.i44riversidespeedway.com 5th Annual Turnpike Challenge POWRi Lucas Oil National/West Midgets POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro’s Thursday 3/22 Practice Friday 3/23 & Saturday 3/24 - I44 Speedway

Tulsa, OK (June 12, 2017) - Tucker Klaasmeyer and his Austin Brown Racing team made a last minute decision to head down Interstate 44 to the I-44 Riverside Speedway yesterday. By the end of the 25-lap A-main presented by HE&M Saw, Klaasmeyer had made his way from his Paola, Kansas home to POWRi West Victory Lane. Thirty-two POWRi West midgets were on hand for the West's return to the racetrack where the series cut its teeth back in 2014. In heat race action, the pair of Team JET midgets...more

Saturday, June 10th the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midgets are back in their home state where it all got started at I-44 Speedway Riverside Oklahoma for $1500 to WIN $150 to start. Gates open at 4:00pm with racing at 7:00pm Grady Chandler has the point lead over Steven Shebester(-150), Wesley Smith(-160), Kory Schudy(-190) and Matt Moore(-200).