Belleville, IL. (7/23/2023) Flying onto the Champaign County Fairgrounds for the annual event, the fifth sanctioned seasonal competition in the POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association would witness Mark McMahill return to winning form at Champaign County Speedway to earn the feature win and his fourth victory of the 2023 racing season.
Starting the fifth night of POWRi sanctioning, IMRA would find the dominant Mark McMahill notch the heat racing win as well as gain the pole-starting grid for the fifteen-lap feature event.
Green flag feature racing would find McMahill defending the front of the field for the duration of the feature laps to earn the Champaign County Fair feature event with Bryan Stanfill earning a solid runner-up showing.
Staying contiguously close to the leaders, Patrick Bruns would finish third as Russell Johnston wheeled his way through the field to place fourth with Shane Morgan rounding out the top five feature finishers for the POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association at Champaign County Speedway for the Champaign County Fair in Urbana Illinois. On Saturday.
POWRi IMRA | Champaign County Speedway | 7/21/23:
- 57-Mark McMahill, 2. 24-Bryan Stanfill, 3. 15M2-Patrick Bruns, 4. 0-Russell Johnston, 5. 15M-Shane Morgan, 6. 9-Keith Wilson, 7. 127-Bobby Morgan, 8. 71-Michael Hermacinski, 9. H20-Reuben Haslett.
Next up the newly sanctioned POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association will see action back at their home facility of Spoon River Speedway on Saturday, August 12th.
POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association 2023 Remaining Schedule:
8/12/2023 | Spoon River Speedway | Lewistown, IL
8/26/2023 | Spoon River Speedway | Lewistown, IL
9/16/2023 | Spoon River Speedway | Lewistown, IL | Knowles/Hull/Trone Memorial
9/22/2023 | Lee County Speedway | Donnellson, IA
9/23/2023 | Lee County Speedway | Donnellson, IA | Season Championship
Future updates will be posted as confirmed. Rules and guidelines for each division are available online at http://www.powri.com/info under the corresponding class. All participants must be POWRi licensed members to receive benefits which include POWRi Member Participant Accident Insurance, annual point fund money, and contingency awards. POWRi Memberships are available online at https://www.myracepass.com/sanctions/1011/registrations/6909.
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