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Belleville, IL – With the Fifth Annual Illinois SPEED Week on the horizon, fans and teams are hoping that Mother Nature plays nicely after a wet start to 2017 throughout the Midwest. Set to be bigger than ever, the Fifth Annual Illinois SPEED Week will host racing from the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, POWRi Lucas Oil Division II Midget League, the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League, and new for 2017, the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprint Car League. New to the Illinois...more

Las Cruces, NM (May 26-27, 2017) - Kyle McCutcheon swept the two-day weekend of racing with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR 305 Sprint League at Southern New Mexico Speedway in Las Cruces, New Mexico on Friday, May 26 and Saturday, May 27. McCutcheon started third on Friday night after finishing third in the American Linen Uniform & Supply Dash for Cash earlier in the night, and he started eighth in the twenty-five lap A-Main on Saturday night. Both nights, he found himself in victory lane. Don...more

Indianapolis, IN - The POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprint League is set to join the POWRi Illinois SPEED Week roster for the first time ever. The WAR East Sprints will compete in three of the total five nights of SPEED Week. Please find WAR payout details below. POWRi kicks off the first of a five-night series known as Illinois Speed Week on Wednesday, May 31 at the Dirt Oval at Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois featuring the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprints plus National and D-II Midgets. Thursday,...more

Joliet, IL – Michael Pickens has only been back in the United States for a short while, but it didn’t take him long to find victory lane with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League for the opening night of Illinois SPEED Week, in what was the league’s inaugural visit to the Dirt Oval at Route 66. Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Pickens won his Speedway Motors heat race from the fourth position, garnering enough points to earn the pole for what would be his ninth career Mesilla Valley...more

Joliet, IL (May 31, 2017) -St. Charles, Missouri native Andy Malpocker picked up the POWRi Lucas Oil D-II Midget victory at The Dirt Oval at Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois on Wednesday evening, May 31. Adam Taylor, Aaron Schuck, Brad Greenup, and Tyler Vantoll rounded out the top five. Schuck and Greenup were heat race winners. Jack Routson passed five cars to finish sixth in the A-Main event, earning him the Hard Charger title. The POWRi Lucas Oil D-II Midget League is headed to Fairbury...more

Joliet, IL (May 31, 2017) - After a series of rainouts to start the season, the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East sprint cars opened their season on Wednesday night, May 31 at the Dirt Oval at 66 Raceway with Landon Simon picking up the win. It marked the first race at the dirt oval in well over a decade. Slater Helt and Simon would lead the field to green for the 20 lap A-Main event. Helt set the pace as he beat Simon into turn one on the opening lap. Helt would hold off Simon to lead lap one as Mario...more

Fairbury, IL – After a relatively quiet start to POWRi Illinois SPEED Week for Tanner Thorson, the driver returned to victory lane with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League for his first 2017 win, this time for night number two of POWRi Illinois SPEED Week at Fairbury American Legion Speedway. The Minden, Nevada native started fifth and quickly worked his way towards the front, battling early on with Auckland, New Zealand’s Michael Pickens, POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League Rookie...more

Fairbury, IL (June 1, 2017) - In sports, it's always been said by many that luck is when preparation meets opportunity. On Thursday night, Korey Weyant definitely lived up to the saying as he picked up a wild win at the Fairbury American Legion Speedway with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprints. Kevin Thomas Jr. moved from his sixth starting spot into the lead on the opening lap. Right behind him, the action was intense among a group of drivers including Dustin Smith, Mitch Wissmiller, Joe B....more

Fairbury, IL (June 1, 2017) - Mitchell Davis picked up the POWRi Lucas Oil D-II Midget victory Thursday night, June 1 at Fairbury American Legion Speedway in Fairbury, Illinois. Aaron Schuck, Brent Burrows, Shane Morgan, and Andy Baugh rounded out the top five. Morgan and Davis each won a heat race at FALS. Schuck passed eight cars to finish runner up which earned him the Hard Charger title. The POWRi Lucas Oil D-II Midgets are back in action Friday, June 2 at Jacksonville Speedway in...more

Jacksonville, IL – Joe B Miller of Millersville, Missouri capitalized on lap traffic late in the race to pick off Craig Ronk in route to his 29th career POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League victory on night three of POWRi Illinois SPEED Week at Jacksonville Speedway. Starting outside the front row and losing ground to Ronk on the start, it looked as though the driver out of Warsaw, Indiana was perhaps on his way to repeating his victory at Jacksonville Speedway from...more