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Merry Christmas to everyone, thank you for a great year. We are looking forward to another banner year in 2018.

Belleville, IL – POWRi and Grundy County Speedway officials have entered into a multi-year agreement to sanction pavement midget racing at the Morris, Illinois Grundy County Speedway under the POWRi Pavement Midget Series banner. “I have been working on putting this together for the last couple of years with Bob Guess,” said Neil Gacke, POWRi Pavement Series Director. “This is a great opportunity because we are going to start out strong right out of the box, implementing ideas to maintain...more

Belleville, IL - The 2018 POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League schedule is officially set, featuring 23 events. As was the case in 2017, the Micro League will head to I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for the Fifth Annual Turnpike Challenge, featured alongside the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League. 2017’s showing at I-44 was the “Frank Show” with Frank Galusha taking the opening night, followed by Frank Flud in...more

INDIANAPOLIS, IN. (January 25, 2018) – The 2017 POWRi Banquet ticket sales have closed to complete the guest list, and the ceremonies will take place this Saturday night, January 27, 2018 at the River City Casino & Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The night of celebration will kick off with a cocktail hour starting at 6:00 PM inside the Event Center which is directly across from the hotel front desk. A plated dinner will be served featuring Field Greens with Garden Vegetables and Choice of...more

Belleville, IL – With a week away from the rumble of POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League engines at Bubba Raceway Park for the Inaugural Sunshine State Midget Challenge, the entry list continues to grow daily. Newly added drivers include POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League regular, Jake Neuman, 2012 and 2017 POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League champion, Joe B. Miller, midget standout, Tanner Thorson, and young-gun Brayton Lynch. Neuman, with one POWRi Lucas Oil National...more

Membership forms for teams planning on competing with POWRi for all divisions in 2018 can be found under the Rules and Driver Information link located at the top of POWRi web site. You can also join on line by entering the Register Here link. You must be a POWRi member to be eligible for the year end point fund and secondary medical insurance. If you are member of POWRi in any division, you will not pay a TP fee to compete in any other division. Insurance will carry over from one division to...more

Belleville, IL – The Louisiana 600’s group will come under POWRi sanction to form the POWRi Louisiana 600’s. Primarily running both Wing Stock A Class and Non-Wing Stock A Class, the Louisiana 600’s race throughout the state of Louisiana. Through the partnership formed with POWRi, the POWRi Louisiana 600’s will be able to join up with the POWRi Align Pro Lonestar 600’s presented by K&K Earthworks to co-sanction more events. This will help promote the growth of 600 microsprint racing...more

I-44 Speedway Riverside Oklahoma, OK. www.i44riversidespeedway.com 5th Annual Turnpike Challenge POWRi Lucas Oil National/West Midgets POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro’s Thursday 3/22 Practice Friday 3/23 & Saturday 3/24 - I44 Speedway

Belleville, IL – The time is once again upon us for midget and micro teams to converge upon I-44 Riverside Speedway in the annual trek to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for the Fifth Annual Turnpike Challenge. Kicking off the weekend with racing on Friday, March 23rd and Saturday, March 24th, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget and POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget Leagues will be battling to see who comes out on top with bragging rights until the annual Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals weekend. An...more

CONCORD, N.C. (March 6, 2018) – Racing Electronics has reached an agreement with Performance Open Wheel Racing, Inc. (POWRi) to become the sanctioning body’s “Official Radio Supplier,” a relationship that will debut at the POWRi events at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City on March 23-24. “Racing Electronics is the most trusted two-way communications services provider in American motorsports, and we look forward to this new relationship with POWRi,” said Kevin Hughes, Vice President of...more