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BELLEVILLE, ILL. (December 4, 2019) – With the 2019 POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League championship in his pocket, Jesse Colwell of Red Bluff, Calif. has punched his ticket to the 2020 Vacuworx International Race of Champions (VIROC) at the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals, where an all-star cast of competitors will race on Tuesday, January 14. Altering the selection process, the 2020 VIROC event welcomes the champions of several different sanctioning bodies for the first time ever. The...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (February 6, 2019) – POWRi is proud to announce the addition Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints to the POWRi Lightning Sprint League. With the addition of the Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints, this is the fifth series to join the POWRI Lightning Sprint League. Based out of the North Dakota and Minnesota area, the Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints will now run under the unified POWRi rule package, with Jason Berg, the series owner, remaining as head of the series. Serving as the sanctioning...more

The 2019 POWRi Championship Banquet will be held on Saturday, January 25, 2020, at the River City Casino & Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The evening will kick off at 6:30PM with a cocktail hour followed by dinner and the awards ceremony. Champions, along with the top ten in the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets (Drivers & Owners), POWRi Lucas Oil West Midgets, POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints and POWRi Engler Machine & Tool 600cc Outlaw Micros will be honored, plus Rookies of the Year and other...more

(Torrance, CA, November 17, 2019) The POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series will finish its 26th consecutive season with the 3rd Annual Western States Lightning Sprint Car Championship at the Bakersfield Speedway this Saturday night, November 23rd. Spectator gates will open at 3:00 P.M. with racing at 6:00. Heading into the race, Jarrett Kramer already has his third overall and second straight CLS championship sewed up. The 37-year-old veteran from Spring Valley comes into...more

(Torrance, CA, November 5, 2019) Aiden Lange and A.J. Bender won the POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series main events on October 26 at the Ventura Raceway, but it was Jarrett Kramer who won the season-long CLS war. For the third time in his career and second year in a row, the Spring Valley, California veteran was crowned series champion. Nineteen cars showed up on the night and Palmdale’s Eric Greco proved to be the fastest of the group in qualifying when he turned in a lap...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (November 1, 2019) – Year one of the successful partnership between POWRi Racing and the Bay Cities Racing Association reaches a conclusion next Saturday night when the season finale puts a cap on the 2019 campaign. Scheduled for Saturday, November 9, the POWRi Lucas Oil BCRA Midget League will hit The Dirt Track at Kern County (Calif.) one final time to determine the championship outcome. In two previous trips to the Bakersfield, Calif. facility, a pair of winners have split...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (October 25, 2019) – In a year where the single-season wins record was snapped, the cars and stars of the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League still found a way to offer boat loads of parity in 2019. Sending 13 different winners to victory lane, this year’s campaign is tied for the fourth-most diverse season in league history, only behind 2012 (18 winners), 2005 (18 winners), and 2013 (14 winners). Logan Seavey of Sutter, Calif. led the way with a whopping 12 triumphs,...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (October 24, 2019) – With the cancellation of this weekend’s Sooner Fall Nationals at Creek County Speedway, the 2019 Performance Open Wheel Racing, Inc. (POWRi) Racing season has officially come to an end. A trio of new champions forged their way to the front in their respective divisions, while one driver locked down back-to-back titles. With the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, 19-year old Jesse Colwell of Red Bluff, Calif. secured his first career championship in...more

Belleville, IL – With the threat of impending weather on Thursday and Saturday this weekend, and with the amount of travel for by fans, teams, and officials, the Season Championship Sooner Fall Nationals at Creek County Speedway have been cancelled. With teams planning to travel to Creek County Speedway from all across the United States to partake in the Inaugural Sooner Fall Nationals and the gloomy forecast of rain threatening to bookend the weekend, the decision has been made to save teams...more

On a cool Saturday afternoon, another outstanding field of fire-breathing Non-Wing Sprint Cars took to the small D-shaped oval of El Paso County Raceway to battle it out for all the money and to crown a inaugural champion. Entering Saturday, Zac Taylor of Green River, WY held a comfortable lead over Coby Pearce of Golden, CO, but Pearce held onto a chance to win if Taylor had a bad day. Taylor's day started out just that way after he drew the worst pill in the bucket placing him last in the...more