One of chuckwagons racing’s all-time greats, Luke’s return to the WPCA Pro Tour in 2024 was highlighted by wins at the Bonnyville Chuckwagon Championship, the Ponoka Stampede, and for the second consecutive year he won the North American Chuckwagon Championship in Lloydminster. The 2024 season saw Luke record thirty top ten runs, which includes six first place runs, and fourteen runs that also placed inside the top five. He won all three championship heats he qualified for in Bonnyville, Ponoka and Lloydminster, and he placed in the top ten overall at six of ten shows he competed at in 2024.
Luke was the World Champion Chuckwagon Drive in 2016, is a two–time Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion, a two–time Calgary Stampede Aggregate winner, and received the WPCA’s highest annual honor when he was named the Chuckwagon Person of the Year for 2013. Luke has had five horses named to the WPCA Equine Outfit Of Excellence, won the Calgary Stampede’s Safe Drive Award for the Least Penalized Driver in 2007, and holds track records at the Ponoka Stampede and the North American Chuckwagon Championship in Lloydminster.
Previously a member of the on the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA), Luke won sixteen CPCA show championships and received the CPCA’s Chuckwagon Family of the Year in 2001. He is the father of outrider Quaid Tournier, father–in–law to fellow driver Logan Gorst, and older brother to former competitor Léo Tournier. Luke and his wife Michele have three children – Shalyn, Lane and Quaid – and six grandchildren. The Tournier’s make their home in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan.
