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(Torrance, CA, April 30, 2019) The POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series will be headed to the Ventura Raceway this Saturday night, May 4th, for a crowd-pleasing open wheel program that will also include the USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, VRA Senior Sprints and the Focus/WMR Midgets. Spectator gates will open at 3:00 P.M. on Saturday and the first race will take the green flag at 5:30. Saturday’s show at the picturesque track that sits just a few hundred feet from the breaking waves...more

TORRANCE, CALIF. (May 14, 2019) The POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series will make its second of three 2019 appearances at the Barona Speedway this Saturday night, May 18th. Gates will open at noon and the first race will get the green flag at 5:00. Coming off his second win of the 2019 campaign at Ventura two weeks ago, Barona local Jarrett Kramer of Spring Valley brings a 61-point lead into the sixth race of the season. Five-time series champion Bobby Michnowicz of Lomita...more

TORRANCE, CALIF. (June 20, 2019) - Doug Nunes ended a two-month long winless streak when he swept the show at the POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series race at the Bakersfield Speedway last Saturday night. The win was the third of the year for the Kingsburg, California resident. Nunes, 42, served early notice on what was going to come on the night the out-qualified the 25-car field with a lap of 13.566 on the 1/3 of a mile high banked clay oval. CLS newcomer Jacob Williams...more

TORRANCE, CALIF. (July 1, 2019) - The POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series will hit the halfway point in its 26th season at its home track, Jim Naylor’s Ventura Raceway, this Saturday night, July 6th. Spectator gates at the “Best Little Dirt Track in America” will open at 3:00 P.M. and the first race will be at 5:30. Going into this weekend’s race, Jarrett Kramer of Spring Valley, the 2010 and 2018 CLS champion, is on top of the 2019 championship standings. The 37-year-old...more

(Torrance, CA, July 22, 2019) - The POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series will kick off the second half of its 2019 season this Saturday night, July 27th, with its only appearance of the year at the Santa Maria Raceway. Spectator gates will open at 4:00 P.M. with qualifying at 5:00 and racing at 5:30. (The attached photo of Doug Nunes, Shane Sexton and Frank Ditmar is courtesy of Pit Princess Photography) Through the first half of the season, Spring Valley’s Jarrett Kramer,...more

(Torrance, CA, September 1, 2019) The POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series will return to its home track, the Ventura Raceway, this Saturday night, September 7th. The race will be the 13th of the 17-race schedule for the CLS in 2019 and the sixth of eight scheduled for Ventura. Two weeks ago at Ventura, local Cody Nigh narrowly beat San Diego’s A.J. Bender to the checkered flag for his first win of 2019. The victory was especially rewarding for Nigh who is from nearby...more