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The POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprints were back at I-35 Speedway on Sat night. Mike Johnson and crew had the track in a really racey condition. A BIG thank you to our 2019 sponsors: Racin’ Boys, Oskvig Accounting and Rod End Supply HEAT 1 1st z8 Tim Davis KC, MO (R) 2nd 99 Emma Martin Independence, MO (R) 3rd 49b Kenny Bowers Olathe, KS (R) 4th 42 Alex Davis KC, MO (R) 5th 5 Tyler Murry ...more

Quinter’s Zach Blurton made the most of his first outing aboard Jeff Stefonick’s J&K Trucking No. 11c Sprint Car as he took his first win of the season and capped his third consecutive URSS Championship Saturday night as the POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series brought to you by Mel Hambelton Racing met the DCRP sprints during the 7th running of the Jerry Soderberg Memorial at Dodge City Raceway Park in Dodge City, KS. It was Blurton’s third Soderberg win and second in a row. Blurton...more

Kingsburg’s Doug Nunes, who is chasing Kramer in the standings, started out the night by out qualifying the field with a lap of 11.898. Bakersfield local Wink Schweitzer was second quick with a time of 12.058. San Diego’s A.J. Bender, who was fast qualifier, a heat race winner and second-place finisher in the main the last time the CLS visited Ventura, was third fastest at 12.039. Gardena teen Dominic Del Monte won the first eight-lap heat race and “Rockstar Jon Robertson of Torrance took...more

MACON, ILL. (September 14, 2019) – It seems that around every corner in 2019, Logan Seavey is somewhere making history. On Saturday night, that somewhere was Macon Speedway, as he became the second driver in POWRi’s 15-year existence to record a double-digit win campaign. Marking his tenth win of a remarkable 2019 season, Seavey not sits only one win away from tying Christopher Bell’s record of 11 wins in 2014, which currently stands as the most POWRi National Midget victories in a single...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (September 13, 2019) – Friday’s finish to the 20-lap POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League main event at Belle-Clair Speedway was a thriller to say the least. Coming out on top of a three-way war for the top spot, Luke Verardi outlasted Frank Galusha and Joe B. Miller to score his much-anticipated first-career win with the series. Starting from the pole position after a sixth-to-second heat race gave him Bell Helmets High Point Man honors, Luke Verardi quickly jumped...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (September 13, 2019) – Taking the wheel of the Team Ripper No. 21KS on Friday night at Belle-Clair Speedway, Jake Neuman of New Berlin, Ill. delivered a long overdue first win of the year for car owner Steve Reynolds and crew chief Flea Ruzic. After taking the lead on lap six, Neuman fended off mid-race pressure from Austin Brown and survived a late charge from Logan Seavey to score his third win of 2019 and the fifth of his POWRi National Midget career. Making his 179th...more

Oberlin, Kansas – September 10, 2019 - The Lucas Oil POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing will end their 2019 race season this coming Saturday night (September 14) with the seventh annual Jerry Soderberg Memorial at Dodge City Raceway Park in Dodge City, Kansas. The originally scheduled season-ender slated for 81 Speedway in Park City, Kansas on October 5 has been dropped from the schedule. This will be the sixth appearance for the “Rebels” with the past five...more

WHEATLAND, MO. (September 11, 2019) – After a successful debut of the completely revamped format last year, the WAR Sprints will return to the Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial with the same preliminary program and a slightly altered championship format on Saturday. A full breakdown of the updated format can be found at the bottom along with updated preliminary nights with 59 cars at the moment. Following a successful introduction of split preliminary nights, the Thursday and Friday...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (September 11, 2019) – Another Illinois two-step awaits the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League this weekend, with events at Belle-Clair Speedway on Friday, September 13 and Macon Speedway on Saturday, September 14 up next. The action gets underway on Friday night with a trip to one of the favorites, Belle-Clair Speedway, affectionately known as ‘Lil Belleville. For the POWRi National Midgets, Friday’s showdown will...more

WHEATLAND, MO. (September 10, 2019) – With another substantial car count expected, the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League portion of the ninth annual Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial at Lucas Oil Speedway will once again feature split preliminary nights. A full list of competitors scheduled to run on Thursday’s Mesilla Valley Transportation night and Friday’s Rockwell Security night can be found at the bottom. At the conclusion of pre-entry, 58 drivers have signed-on for competition in...more