The Midget Stampede at the ¼-mile track located near Fort Worth has a purse exceeding $40,000 with Friday’s feature paying $3,000 to win and $300 to start and Saturday’s $5,000 to win and $500 to start. $100 in tow money will be paid each night for the entrants not making the feature. This will be the eighth season for POWRi National Midgets, co-founded by Kenny Brown and Jim Siner. “We’re pretty excited to take the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series to Cowtown and Texas and debut our West series with it,” Brown said. “We’re spreading out from our Midwestern roots, but we’re equally proud to be returning to our traditional tracks that have been our partners in building POWRi.”

Tony Scarlata, the World Champion drag and circle boat racer, will join the Performance Boats test team when it convenes in Lake Havasu City, AZ, for its annual Performance Evaluations this spring. Scarlata, 44, of Burbank, CA, currently drives the Lucas Oil Top Alcohol Flatbottom, his third year on that team. He earned back-to-back World Champions as their driver. "I am excited as hell to be on the PB evaluation team," Scarlata said. "I hope to bring an entirely different demographic to the magazine and website."

Officials of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series are pleased to announce that the series will offer drivers over 3.2 million dollars in cash and contingencies in 2012. The amount is a new record for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series. In 2011, the series averaged an industry high of 49 cars per event. Record-breaking crowds watched many of the most exciting races of the year. The 2012 series schedule includes 46 events in 19 different states at some of the top racing facilities in the country.

New GEICO/Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster crew chief Aaron Brooks went into this week's testing session at Palm Beach International Raceway with some trepidation, but left with a great deal of enthusiasm. "The last three years, I've started each season with a new team," Brooks said. "It can take a long time to get everybody on the same page. These guys on the GEICO team have been together a while, and it showed. Everyone was flawless. "I didn't realize just how well we were doing," Brooks said. "The second or third day we ran a 3.80 and Morgan came back to the pit with a big smile and said, 'Man I've never gone that quick before.'

"To me, Lucas Oil Stadium has the complete package," says Stadium Journey co-founder Paul Swaney. "It's entrenched right there in the city, they've got good food, the parking is accessible. The fans are friendly and knowledgeable." Swaney calls Indianapolis the best sports town in the United States. "They could have packed in eighty, ninety thousand seats but they made a conscious choice not to," says Swaney. "The Colts care about their fans and they chose not to be greedy." Because of that design, he says, there's "not a bad seat in the house."

Paul Brown’s 2012 Mustang Boss 302S will be displayed in Ford Racing's booth for this year’s Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auctions , 16-22 January. One hundred and ten years after the Ford Motor Company founder brought home a victory in his one and only auto race as a driver, Ford racing teams and drivers around the world brought home victories and championships in the program's 110th anniversary season.

Rentrak Corporation, the leader in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising, television and entertainment industries, today announced a multi-year TV Essentials™ contract with MavTV. MavTV (Movies, Action & Variety), is an emerging cable network recently purchased by high performance oil products powerhouse Lucas Oil. Rentrak's census-like television currency combines consumer purchasing statistics with TV viewership consumption in order to provide agencies and network clients with an advanced targeting service to deliver the right consumers to advertising clients.

Timmy Weigand started the year off by knocking one out of the park with a convincing win at his first race of 2012, taking home the $2000.00 winner’s purse! Colton Udall was also on hand and was flying but a crash set him back to 3rd for the day. The Legendary "Soboba Grand Prix" was held this past weekend January 15, 2012 on the Soboba Indian reservation and featured a 6.5 mile course that was a mix of twisty tight terrain and high speed 2 track.

Lucas Oil has signed on to support F & A Racing (Forbes & Andrew Racing) with notable driver Chris Andrews piloting a 315 MPH + capable Top Fuel Dragster. F&A Racing was established in 1998 and went on to make a name in the European Motorsports Community. Chris went on to become one of Europe's hot properties making a name for himself as a 'Rookie' driver and quickly climbing the division ladder. By 2004, Chris had made it into the Top Fuel category.

“We will field two cars in ST this season”, said Team Principal Chris Mitchum. “Robert did an outstanding job for us last year so we will rely on him heavily this season in the BMW’s. His feed back is spot on and with the addition of Kevin who also did great in the division last season we are all excited about our chances. We are expecting a lot out of the team, drivers and cars!