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JACKSONVILLE, ILL. (October 10, 2019) – Scotty Milan of Fort Collins, Colo. was not to be denied on Saturday night at Jacksonville Speedway, leading all 20 laps of the main event and cashing in for his first-career victory with the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. Earning Bell Helmets #HighPointMan honors, Milan put his No. 97 on the pole position thanks to a masterful seventh-to-first drive to win the opening Lightning Wings heat race. Chad Elliott, who broke through for his...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (October 9, 2019) – With a significant forecast of impending rain set to hit the area, track and series officials have made the call to switch the POWRi National Midgets and POWRi Outlaw Micros “Charlene Meents Memorial” at Belle-Clair Speedway from the originally scheduled Friday date and pushed it back to now race on Sunday evening. Saturday’s program at Southern Illinois Raceway is unaffected and will run as planned. “We’ve been watching the weather all week and with as...more

With a moody Mother Nature looming Lake Ozark Speedway would go above and beyond to see the field of 37 Powri Lightning Wing National take to the track and prove themselves with blistering lap times and side by side racing action. Even after an extended intermission due to irregular rain showers drivers from eleven states and Canada would wage racing war through four Heat’s, three Qualifiers, and a pair of B-Features to set the 24 car field for 25 trips around “The Lake”. Night number one’s...more

JACKSONVILLE, ILL. (October 6, 2019) – Going wire-to-wire in Saturday’s 30-lap main event at Jacksonville Speedway, Tanner Carrick of Lincoln, Calif. was just unstoppable in the green-to-checkered run. Aboard the Keith Kunz-Curb Agajanian Motorsports, Walker Filters, Bullet/Toyota No. 71K, Carrick won his third career POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League feature and the first of his 2019 campaign. Surviving a pair of rain delays before the feature hit the track, it was a constant guessing...more

A record setting 43 entries of Powri Lightning Sprints would take to the fast Lake Ozark Speedway, with side by side action throughout the first night of the Powri Lightning Sprint Nationals. Drivers from nine states and even Canada would pack the pits. After five hard fought heat races, four fast-paced qualifiers, and a pair of edge-of-the-seat B-Feature battles, the feature field of 24 was set for 25 trips around “The Lake”. Fresh off earning the night’s High Point Qualifier Award, pole...more

JACKSONVILLE, ILL. (October 5, 2019) – Logan Seavey thought he saw the window for a win shutting when Rico Abreu slid by on the 12th circuit in Friday’s POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget feature at Jacksonville Speedway. However, a late rally brought Seavey right back to Abreu’s bumper before a perfect diamond maneuver off turn two sealed the race’s fate when the No. 67 shot by the No. 97 with only four laps left. A historical win on several levels, Seavey’s Friday night triumph was the scene of...more

Fourteen drivers took the challenge on Saturday, September 28th to face a cold and blustery night at the El Paso County Raceway. This was the largest field of the year for the Warrior Sprint Series, with drivers from two states making the trip to take home the paycheck. Heat races were won by Zac Taylor of Green River, Wyoming and Brett Ream of Colorado Springs, Colorado. But it was Coby Pearce of Golden, Colorado taking the high points honor and he rolled a four for the invert, placing...more

JACKSONVILLE, ILL. (October 1, 2019) – Slated for back-to-back appearances this Friday, October 4 and Saturday, October 5, Jacksonville Speedway is the place to race this weekend as the home stretch of the 2019 campaign begins for the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micros. As long as Mother Nature cooperates, Saturday’s showing will mark the 40th all-time race at the Jacksonville, Ill. quarter mile for the POWRi National Midgets, tying it with Macon...more

Indio teenager James Turnbull heads into Saturday's race at Ventura after recording a season-best second-place finish at Bakersfield two weeks ago. Pit Princess Photo. Two-time CLS champion and current point leader Jarrett Kramer of Spring Valley has dominated the action at the beachside track thus far in 2019. He won the first four races there before finishing sixth on August 24th. Local Cody Nigh of Camarillo took the win that night. Things returned to normal when Kramer bested the field...more

All eyes of the Lightning Sprint racing world will turn to Eldon, Missouri on October 4th and 5th, as the Inaugural Powri Lightning Sprint Nationals swarm “The Lake”, with big money on the line. Representatives from Powri California Lightning Sprint Series, Powri Rocky Mountain Lightning Sprint Series, and Powri Midwest Lightning Sprint Series are all coming together under a common set of Powri rules making this the premier weekend event of the year for the Lightning Sprints series. Drivers...more