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OBERLIN, Kansas (August 15, 2020) – Twenty-seven cars were on hand with POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series presented by the Mel Hambelton Ford Racing for the final night of the Bob Salem Memorial. Drivers took to the 3/8-mile dirt track on Saturday night and Quinter, Kansas’ Zach Blurton swept the night. Heat races were won by Zach Blurton, Monty Ferriera, Koby Walters, and JD Johnson. A 12-lap B-Feature transferred eight to the feature event: Kyler Johnson, Todd Plemons, Willie Wynn,...more

Belleville, IL. (08/17/2020) Battling on a smooth-slick quarter-mile racing surface on a hot and hazy Fort Morgan Colorado night, the POWRi Lucas Oil Rocky Mountain Lightning Sprints would tackle the tricky I-76 Speedway in wingless competition. Picking up his fifth win on the 2020 RMLS season, Johnny Boos continues to ride the wave of successes this year while tightening the gap in the overall championship standings. Running without the downforce of a wing for the fifth time this year the...more

Belleville, IL (08/17/2020) Competing in their fourth event of the 2020 racing season the POWRi Lucas Oil New Mexico Racing Association would once again head to their home-turf running grounds of Sandia Speedway in Albuquerque, New Mexico with side-by-side action throughout the fierce pack of 360 non-wing sprinters. After twenty-five laps of high-octane and battles for nearly every position, Don Grable would wire the field by leading every lap on his way to the night’s top spot. Pacing the...more

Belleville, IL. (08/17/2020) Suffering the wrath of an unapologetic mother-nature, the POWRi Lucas Oil Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints would not see the racing surface this past Friday in sanctioned competition with the event at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, ND. The entire weekend was not a wash-out though as officials would go above and beyond giving drivers a venue to compete in unsanctioned racing on Saturday evening at Devils Lake Speedway in Crary, ND. MKLS series director Jason...more

Belleville, IL. (08/17/2020) Entering into the homestretch of the 2020 season for the POWRi Lucas Oil Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League, many marquee events are approaching rapidly. With added pay, “Border-War Bounties”, and a Top 24 in points event at I-70, various storylines aid in the excitement of the end-of-season push for the POWRi WAR Sprint League. Next up for WAR competitors will be the first series visit since 2014 to the three-eighths-mile dirt-oval of Central Missouri Speedway,...more

Belleville, IL. (08/17/2020) The POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League fires back off this weekend with a stand-alone show at I-44 Riverside Speedway. The action kicks off on Saturday, August 22 with a stop at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, OK. Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, MO has had nothing but a dominating year with the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League. Piloting the Chad Shields Racing, MelMark Pipe & Supply, Ripper/Fontana No. 44S, Felker has the points lead and is grabbing...more

DODGE CITY, Kansas (August 17, 2020) – The time has arrived for the Fourth Annual Dodge City Raceway Park Sprint Car Nationals this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, August 20th-22nd. The weekend will produce a three-day show full of sprint car action as the POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing goes head-to-head with the Hambelton Racing DCRP Sprint Cars for the $3,000 top-prize and added bonus moneys on Saturday’s finale. Last year’s Sprint Car...more

Belleville, IL. (08/18/2020) A fan favorite from Tahlequah, OK. Ace McCarthy is looking to close up the points battle between him and old teammate, Jake Neuman this weekend at Illinois SPEED Weekend. At the beginning of the 2019 race season, Jim Neuman Racing of New Berlin, Illinois added a new combatant in Oklahoma’s Ace McCarthy. McCarthy picked up his first career POWRi West triumph in September of 2017 at I-30 Speedway in Arkansas, then followed that with another victory in April 2018 at...more

Belleville, IL. (08/19/2020) The Lincoln, Nebraska-native, Trey Gropp is making a valiant effort to capture POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Rookie of the Year honors. Gropp took over the Rookie of the Year points lead last weekend with a two-day race at Federated Auto Parts I-55 Raceway for the Ironman 55. So far on the year, Gropp has two top three finishes and three top ten with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. His career best finish with the national midgets is a third-place...more

Lincoln, IL. (08/21/2020) Even in the rubber Michael “Buddy” Kofoid found the sweet spot around the top of Lincoln Speedway and took the lead from lap one. Going the distance from there, Kofoid landed his fifth win of the year with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. Bringing the field to the green flag, Cannon McIntosh of Bixby OK. and Michael “Buddy” Kofoid of Penngrove, CA. started the front row of the 30-lapper. Kofoid, a recent winner at Charleston Speedway in July, shot his #67...more