[nathans1012]

Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget Series
2015 Schedule
Friday, March 20th - Port City Raceway - Tulsa, Oklahoma

Saturday, March 21st - Port City Raceway - Tulsa, Oklahoma

Friday, April 10th - Belle-Clair Speedway - Belleville, Illinois

Friday, April 24th - Jacksonville Speedway - Jacksonville, Illinois

Saturday, April 25th - Macon Speedway - Macon, Illinois

Friday, May 1st - Valley Speedway - Grain Valley, Missouri

Saturday, May 2nd - Lucas Oil Speedway - Wheatland, Missouri

Friday, May 8th - Belle-Clair Speedway - Belleville, Illinois

Saturday, May 9th - St. Francis County Raceway - Farmington, Missouri

Friday, May 15th - Fayette County Speedway - Brownstown, Illinois

Saturday, May 16th - Macon Speedway - Macon, Illinois

Saturday, May 23rd - Angell Park Speedway - Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Sunday, May 24th - Angell Park Speedway - Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Thursday, June 4th - Quincy Raceways - Quincy, Illinois

Friday, June 5th - Jacksonville Speedway - Jacksonville, Illinois

Saturday, June 6th - Macon Speedway - Macon, Illinois

Sunday, June 7th - Belle-Clair Speedway - Belleville, Illinois

Friday, July 3rd - Macon Speedway - Macon, Illinois

Saturday, July 5th - Macon Speedway - Macon, Illinois

Sunday, July 6th - Angell Park Speedway - Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Saturday - July 11th - Fairbury American Legion Speedway - Fairbury, Illinois

Sunday, July 12th - Belle-Clair Speedway - Belleville, Illinois

Saturday, August 1st - Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, Indiana

Sunday, August 2nd - Belle-Clair Speedway - Belleville, Illinois

Friday, August 7th - Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 - Pevely, Missouri

Saturday, August 8th - Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 - Pevely, Missouri

Friday, August 21st - Lincoln Speedway - Lincoln, Illinois

Saturday, August 22nd - Macon Speedway - Macon, Illinois

Saturday, August 29th - LaSalle Speedway - LaSalle, Illinois

Friday, September 11th - Jacksonville Speedway - Jacksonville, Illinois

Saturday, September 12th - Spoon River Speedway - Canton, Illinois

Saturday, September 26th - Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, Indiana

Friday, October 2nd - Belle-Clair Speedway - Belleville, Illinois

Saturday, October 3rd - Belle-Clair Speedway - Belleville, Illinois

Friday, October 9th - Lincoln Speedway - Lincoln, Illinois

Saturday, October 10th - Jacksonville Speedway - Jacksonville, Illinois

Saturday, October 23rd - Wayne County Speedway (Jason Leffler Memorial $20,000 to win) - Wayne City, Illinois

[ronmil]

Wonder why the late date for the Jason Leffler Memorial?

[gateway]

2015 POWRi National Midget Series Schedule Released, Featuring Largest Paying Midget Event

Millstadt, IL. – The POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series has scheduled 39 events for the 2015 season and will include fan-favorites such as the Turnpike Challenge at Port City Raceway, The Thiel Memorial and Pepsi Nationals at Angell Park Speedway, and the $20,000-to-win Great Clips Jason Leffler Memorial at Wayne County Speedway. The POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series will also make their debut at Fairbury Speedway in 2015, a track POWRi was originally scheduled to make their debut at in 2014, but inclement weather forced the cancellation of the event.
The 2015 season begins at Port City Raceway on March 20th and will conclude at Wayne County Speedway on October 23rd for the Jason Leffler Memorial.

The Jason Leffler Memorial, a $20,000-to-win event sponsored by Great Clips, will be the largest-paying midget event in 2015. Held October 23rd at Wayne County Speedway, all proceeds will go to the Charlie Dean Leffler Discretionary Fund.
The Leffler Memorial was organized by Wayne County Speedway owner Doug Stringer in 2012 to honor his long-time friend who died in a sprint car crash on June 12, 2013. Leffler was 37 and is survived by his five-year old son, Charlie Dean. “This race is my way to honor Jason, who was a great racer, but more importantly a great father to Charlie Dean,” Stringer explained. “As we continue to mourn, we must keep Charlie Dean in the forefront of our minds and do everything we can to ensure he grows up knowing what an amazing person his father was and how much he was respected as both a driver and a friend.”

Stringer has continued to improve and enhance the facilities since purchasing the track in 2012. In 2014, Stringer added more grandstands, an upper deck area, as well as re-conditioning the track surface with new dirt. Previous winners of the event include 2013 and 2014 POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series Champion Zach Daum (2013), and 2013 World of Outlaw’s STP Sprint Car Series Champion Daryn Pittman (2014).

Returning for the first time since 2008, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series will run the two day Iron Man 55 at I-55 Raceway in conjunction with the World of Outlaw’s STP Sprint Car Series. During the two day Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals, POWRi will visit the title sponsor-owned, Lucas Oil Speedway on May 2nd, the second and final night of the Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals. Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Indiana will host the Ford Eco-Boost Challenge with races on Saturday, August 1st and will conclude on Saturday, September 26th. POWRi will also continue to visit their fan-favorite 1/5th mile tracks of Macon and Belleville, with a total of 13 scheduled events between the two tracks alone.

Macon Speedway will host a two-day show on July 3rd and 4th weekend, with the July 4th event paying $5000-to-win. This two day show will be a precursor to the Pepsi Nationals on July 5th at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Continuing to hold their traditional events honoring those who have contributed to the rich history of midget racing, the schedule includes the Arnie Knepper Memorial on August 2nd and the Meents Memorial on October 3rd at Belle-Clair Speedway, as well as the Dana Godfrey Memorial at Macon Speedway on August 22nd.

POWRi’s world championship began in New Zealand and continues in Australia later in January. After a short break, the championship renews in the United States on May 23rd at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin for the two-day Thiel Memorial and will conclude on June 7th at Belle-Clair Speedway. Illinois Speed Week includes Quincy Raceway on Thursday June 4th, Jacksonville Speedway on Friday June 5th, Macon Speedway on Saturday June 6th, and closes at Belle-Clair Speedway on Sunday June 7th alongside the world championship.

[sw1911]

Is the Gold Crown still happening?

[El1teBr33ze]

Originally Posted by sw1911 Is the Gold Crown still happening?

Last year, even though it was rained out, was not sanctioned by POWRi. Was only sanctioned by USAC.

With that being said, I don't think Gold Crown is going to happen the same weekend this year because USAC has a sprint car race scheduled at Lawrenceburg on Oct. 3.

[miledirt]

Interesting that the Granite City / Tri City website doesn't have their 2015 events calendar up yet, and the USAC site, while it does have the national sprint and silver crown calendar up, it doesn't have the national midget calendar up yet.

Good question about the Gold Crown, hopefully they can all get together for a little bit earlier of a date and make it happen with Tri City, USAC and Powri all working together

[El1teBr33ze]

I'm also not liking the looks of POWRi running at Belleville on the traditional Gold Crown weekend.

[Nate]

Bummed there won't be a USAC/POWRi Kokomo Grand Prix this year. Thought that was a great event last year for so early in the season.

[Andrew S. Quinn]

Time to start planning some half days at work etc. Looks like it is going to be a busy summer crossing over the State Line into Illinois and beyond for 2015.

Seven races at Little Belleville......Thank you very much!

[billw]

Sept 3-5 looks to be open from both series with silver crown at duquion on the 6th