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The POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprints opened our season at I-35 Speedway on Sat night. A BIG thank you goes out to our sponsors for 2019, Racin’ Boys, Oskvig Accounting and Rod End Supply. We had 5 Rookies for our first nite of the new season. Heat 1 1st 01 Bobby Layne KC, MO 2nd 49B Kenny Bowers Olathe, KS (R) 3rd 5 Tyler Murry Dover, MO 4th z8 Tim Davis KC, MO (R) 5th 88 Mike Tindell...

After a successful two-night weekend to open the season and the month of April, the POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing is set to open the month of May with a huge event as the “Rebels” head to Lincoln County Raceway in North Platte, Nebraska on Saturday night, May 4, for the fourth annual “Ron Williams/Dick Snoose Myers Memorial.” This one-night event will pay $1500 to win while just starting the night’s feature finale will pay $200. Also, fast...more

Belleville, IL – Beginning Friday, April 26th, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League has a big weekend on tap. Visiting three, fan-thrilling, action-packed tracks, the National Midgets begin the weekend at Belle-Clair Speedway, head to Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 on Saturday, and then round out the weekend on Sunday at Jacksonville Speedway. Friday, April 26th, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League will invade Belle-Clair Speedway for the first showing there of 2019, and...more

Belleville, IL – Tomorrow’s 28th Annual Arnie Knepper Memorial featuring action from the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool 600cc Outlaw Micro League has been cancelled due to the continuous rainfall over the past three days. POWRi and Belle-Clair Speedway officials are actively seeking a date for rescheduling. “The rain gauge at the track shows three inches of rain,” commented Brian Thompson of Belle-Clair Speedway. This spring hasn’t been kind to...more

(Torrance, CA, April 24, 2019) Five-time series champion Bobby Michnowicz etched his name onto the victory ledger for the first time in 2019 when he won the POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series main event in a thrilling finish last Saturday night at the Bakersfield Speedway. The victory was Michnowicz first at the Kern County clay oval since 2017. Twenty-seven CLS cars took time trials at the longtime track that is referred to as “The West’s Fastest 1/3 Mile High Banked...more

Grain Valley: Pat Schudy returned to victory lane Friday night in POWRi Valley Outlaw Midget action leading from start to finish in the feature event. For the veteran driver who will be 60 years old in September, it was his first win in the series since 2014 when he won the championship. His 7s Machine was fast all night for the Springfield, Mo. ace as he earned the pole position for the 20 lapper by scoring the most passing points in his heat. Schudy credited his chief mechanic Jeff...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 1, 2019) – Due to heavy rain throughout the week paired with a forecast expecting more showers, officials have made the call to cancel Friday’s event at Valley Speedway for the POWRi Lucas Oil National/West Midgets and the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League. Saturday’s race at Lucas Oil Speedway is still on as scheduled and plans to proceed without a hitch. With a state-of-the-art facility that includes a phenomenal drainage system and paved pit area, the hard-working crew...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 2, 2019) – As part of an ever-growing brand, Performance Open Wheel Racing, Inc. is excited to announce the addition of the POWRi Lucas Oil Honor Sprints and the POWRi Lucas Oil Bandit Sprints for the 2019 season. Competing at Honor Speedway in Pueblo, Colorado, the POWRi Lucas Oil Honor Sprints will open their campaign this Saturday, May 4. The Honor Sprints will battle once a month at the Colorado facility with six dates scheduled for 2019. Other races for the Honor...more

Lonnie Wheatley, BIXBY, Okla. (May 3, 2019) – Kaylee Bryson notched her first top-ten finish in Midget racing competition with the POWRi West Midget League at Sapulpa, Oklahoma’s Creek County Speedway last Friday night. Now, the 18-year-old from Muskogee, OK, makes her first visit to Wheatland, Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday night for a Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget event. “It will be my first time to go there, I’m excited to be racing there,” Bryson says. Last week originally...more

Lonnie Wheatley, BIXBY, Okla. (May 3, 2019) – With rain eliminating Friday night activities, 16-year-old Cannon McIntosh is set for a full night of action at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri in both Sprint Car and Midget action. McIntosh will take in both the ASCS Warrior Region Sprint Car portion of the event as well as the Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget League event aboard the Dave Mac Motorsports Toyota-TRD Spike No. 08. “It’s going to be fun racing both cars on the same night,...more