BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Growing the excitement level surrounding competition for the POWRI National Midget League season, Talin Turner is finalizing preparations in his quest for a championship season.
Registering less than a handful of POWRi National Midget career starts, Turner, driving the Chandler Grand Prix entry, stays eligible and ready to compete for the recently renamed Jim Childers Rookie of the Year Honor as well as the point championship title when the season launches at the Turnpike Challenge on March 22-25.
“Our main goal is to go out every night and be competitive,” Talin said. “If we can do that, I don’t think a POWRi Championship is out of the question.
“Towards the end of last season we started to gain speed and things were really starting to come together, so it’s just about finding that momentum again and building off of it.”
Validating his driving ability, Turner rapidly proved his merit in limited showings last season by gaining a pair of top-five finishes, a heat race victory, as well as a career-best showing of third at Port City Raceway in  POWRi West Midget League stand-alone competition.
“There’s always a decent amount of pressure in trying to make sure Talin has everything he needs to be successful,” said car owner Grady Chandler. “We continue to try to make our operation better in every way with the goal is winning the championship, which I think we can do.
“We just have to put a whole night together but the speed is there to be a frontrunner.”Â