2/24/2015
Peck Eyes Full-Time POWRi National Midget Schedule
(Photo by Dylan Duvall Photography)
MONROVIA, Ind. – After this winter’s racing action, the list of rising stars in midget racing is no longer complete without Justin Peck being included. The 16-year-old high school sophomore ran third at the Battle at the Center behind Joey Saldana and Bryan Clauson, won a feature at the Rumble in Fort Wayne and tied for the overall Rumble championship, finished seventh on his Chili Bowl preliminary night after coming from the B-main, and could almost taste a Chili Bowl main event start before ultimately being involved in a crash in the Saturday B-main.
Now, he’s ready to take his show outdoors and make a run at the POWRi National Midget crown in 2015, as well as adding about half of the USAC National Midget schedule. Peck ran a majority of the POWRi schedule last season, but was kept out of action when a nasty flip resulted in a concussion that sidelined him for six weeks.
He’ll start the season off just a few miles from where he last raced: Tulsa, Oklahoma. He’ll take on Port City Raceway on March 20th and 21st, where, last season, he picked up a third-place finish to Port City homegrown racers Christopher Bell and Tyler Thomas. After that, he’ll head home to Indiana, where he’ll race at Montpelier Motor Speedway on April 4th, as neither POWRi nor USAC will race that weekend. He’ll add five more races at Montpelier by season’s end. Then, he’ll resume POWRi action at Belle-Clair Speedway the following weekend, April 10th, with three more points events after that before month’s end.
In May, Peck will make his way west for POWRi’s Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals at Valley Speedway and Lucas Oil Speedway, then tackle several more POWRi races before the Thiel Memorial at Wisconsin’s Angell Park Speedway. At the end of May, he’ll make his first USAC starts of the season at Plymouth Speedway in Indiana. June will kick off with a grueling stretch of nine races in eleven days: four days of POWRi’s Illinois SPEED Week June 4-7, a two-day break, then five days of USAC’s Indiana Midget Week June 10-14. An unspecified track will host a two-day USAC event to close out June, with Peck expecting to be in attendance.
July includes five more points dates, including the prestigious Pepsi Nationals at Angell Park. He’ll elect to skip USAC’s three-race trip to Kansas for the Belleville Midget Nationals on August 1st in favor of the first leg of the POWRi Ford Eco-Boost Challenge at Tri-State Speedway in Indiana that same day, then head to “Little Belleville” the following day for the Knepper Memorial. August 7th and 8th, the treacherous high-banked I-55 Raceway in Pevely, Missouri plays host to Peck and the POWRi Midgets as well as the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars. He’ll again skip three USAC races, this time in Pennsylvania August 18-20, in the hunt for the POWRi championship.
September, however, will start with USAC action at Granite City, Illinois’ Tri-City Speedway for the Gold Crown Midget Nationals on the 4th and 5th. Three POWRi points races are scheduled in September, but the second and final race for the Ford Eco-Boost Challenge at Tri-State on the 26th falls on the same day as USAC’s Four-Crown Nationals at Eldora, meaning Peck will have to miss USAC’s biggest event.
Five races in October will close out the POWRi season, including the Belleville Bash and Tom Meents Memorial at Belle-Clair Speedway. The 2015 POWRi National Midget champion will be determined at Wayne County Speedway’s Jason Leffler Memorial on October 23rd.
Peck would like to thank Dura Coat, Simpson Race Products, Lucas Oil, Keizer Wheels, Quick Change Racing Products, and DRC Chassis, as well as his parents, Joe Devin, Carl Thomas, Rich Gabel, Jon Steed, Mike Gass, Zack Burks, and all of his fans for their continued support in 2015.
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