One of chuckwagons racing’s most phenomenal talents, Luke returns to the WPCA Pro Tour for the first time since 2019. Luke was the World Champion Chuckwagon Drive in 2016, is a two–time Calgary Stampede GMC 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 competed on the CPCA Circuit the past three years, and the 2023 season saw Luke record 40 top ten runs, which includes eleven first place runs, and thirteen runs that also placed inside the top five. He made a clean sweep of the two Lloydminster stops when he won the North American Chuckwagon Championship (NACC) and the CPCA Finals. He qualified for five championship final heats at the Onion Lake Sports Day, the North American Chuckwagon Championship, The Frog Lake First Nation, the Poundmaker Cree Nation, and for the third time in his career, the CPCA Championship dash, winning both the NACC and the Pondmaker Cree Nation.
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 the track record at the Ponoka Stampede, and since joining the WPCA back in 2003, Luke has collected sixteen major titles.
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.
