FARMER CITY, Ailing. — The automobiles are constructed. The drivers are primed. And “xtreme” motion awaits when the Xtreme Outlaw Midget Collection offered by Toyota kicks off its 2025 season in the course of the World of Outlaws Illini 100 weekend.
The Collection’ 11 full-time stars might be joined by a number of of the perfect midget drivers within the nation in the course of the two-day occasion at Farmer Metropolis Raceway.
Constructed to be certainly one of Illinois’s most heralded filth racing occasions, Farmer Metropolis Raceway’s springtime showdown developed from internet hosting solely tremendous late fashions and DIRTcar UMP Modifieds to welcoming midgets on the billing card for the primary time in 2024.
The weekend at Farmer Metropolis Raceway marks the beginning of the 10-race Xtreme-POWRi Problem Collection and the primary of two weekends that the midgets share the observe with the World of Outlaws late fashions in 2025.
The sequence strikes into excessive gear for the primary time on Thursday, April 10, for open apply with the midgets, late fashions, and the MARS Racing Collection Modifieds.
The factors gathering begins on Friday and Saturday night time, April 11-12, with the midgets going across the quarter-mile bullring for $4,000-to-win on the opening night time, then Saturday night time’s finale has opponents chasing a $5,000 payday.
Past the motion on the observe, off-track actions embrace pop tab collections on Friday, a cornhole event and an autograph session on Saturday, and giveaways all through the Illini 100 weekend.
Xtreme vs. POWRi, Half I
The third season of the 10-race Xtreme-POWRi Problem Collection kicks off at Farmer Metropolis Raceway for drivers to chase the $2,500 champion’s bonus.
Final yr’s working of the Illini 100 noticed a KKM sweep on the highest step of the rostrum, with Ryan Timms and Ashton Torgerson taking victory in Friday and Saturday’s function races, respectively.
The Problem Collection in 2025 will make stops by Farmer Metropolis, Coles County Speedway for the inaugural King of Coles (Might 30-31), I-55 Federated Auto Elements Raceway Park for the St. Louis Firecracker Faceoff and Ironman 55(June 20-21, Aug. 1-2), and the finale weekend at Doe Run Raceway (Sept. 5) and Highland Speedway (Sept. 6).
McIntosh 2.0
Cannon McIntosh is eyeing to deliver the identical championship-chasing power he introduced towards his first Xtreme Outlaw title in 2024.
The Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports (KKM) No.71k gained six options to maneuver his win whole to 11 (most all-time) and commenced his 2025 yr with wins at the Tulsa Shootout, Port Metropolis Raceway in a winged outlaw micro, and Creek County Speedway.
In McIntosh’s first go to to the quarter-mile Illinois filth observe, he completed with a prime 5 on Friday earlier than following up with a second-place effort in Saturday night time’s finale.
A New Period
Chase McDermand begins the brand new journey of taking part within the Xtreme Outlaw Midgets as an owner-driver for Chase McDermand Racing in 2025.
The Springfield, Ailing., veteran is sizzling off his finest yr with the sequence, with a third-place factors standing regardless of one function win he attained the day after his birthday at Tulsa Speedway.
McDermand picked up his first top-10 of his 2025 yr on the Turnpike Problem forward of the Xtreme season-opener.
Miller’s Revenge Tour
Early-season accidents took Gavin Miller out of competition for the 2024 Xtreme championship however confirmed his restoration was full when he took the checkered flag within the season finale at Jacksonville.
The Allentown, Pa., native has discovered his method to victory lane in 2025 with a function win at Port Metropolis Speedway over KKM teammates Jacob Denney and Cannon McIntosh.
Miller’s major aim is straightforward, but daunting in his return – win the sequence championship. It’ll begin at Farmer Metropolis, the place he drove to 2 sixth-place function finishes in 2024.
Edwards’ Rising Inventory
Tyler Edwards achieved a milestone in his midget profession when he drove the Mounce/Stout Motorsports No. 56 to an A-Predominant begin on the Chili Bowl Nationals offered by NOS Vitality Drink in January.
Edwards is recent off a 2024 rookie season with the Xtreme Outlaw Midgets, that includes a career-high fourth-place end at Atomic Speedway and 7 top-10 finishes for ninth within the season’s factors standings.
Since racing on the SageNet Middle, the Salina, Okla., driver has stored himself busy with dash automotive racing by posting a sixth-place effort at Arrowhead Speedway with the OCRS Dash Automobiles forward of his return to the Stanton-powered midget.
Recent Faces in Farmer Metropolis
A stacked lineup of seven rookies will make their full-season factors chase with the Xtreme Outlaw Midgets when the primary inexperienced flag drops in Farmer Metropolis, Ailing., on Friday night time.
Becoming a member of KKM for the 2025 slate contains Alex Karpowicz, Brandon Carr, Jacob Denney and Colton Robinson. Denney is the one driver of the 4 to have made a earlier Xtreme begin, together with his debut coming for KKM on the 2024 finale in Jacksonville Speedway.
Karpowicz and Robinson every come from previous success in winged and non-winged micro sprints, and Carr strikes over from successful European karting titles to racing on the filth ovals of the US.
Trifecta Motorsports will subject two rookie efforts for Michael Faccinto within the No. 5U, and Kameron Key within the No. 9U. Faccinto spent the final two years with Trifecta on the Chili Bowl Nationals, incomes his first profession A-Predominant begin within the 2024 working.
Key has made numerous begins in open-wheel classes, together with World of Outlaws NOS Vitality Drink Dash Automobile begins at Volusia Speedway Park for Beaver Racing.
Hayden Clever joins the sequence in her family-owned midget for her first crack at a nationwide Midget tour in 2025. The 14-year-old from Huntersville, N.C., claimed championships within the NASCAR Youth Collection and Dixie Shootout Collection Quarter Midgets earlier than she moved as much as piloting micro sprints.
