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BELLEVILLE, ILL. (October 17, 2019) – Championship contender Zach Daum will miss this Saturday’s POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League race at I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, Ark. due to concussion-like symptoms. The Pocahontas, Ill. native already has plans to visit specialists at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) later this month. “I jarred up some old concussion symptoms last weekend at SIR and Belleville,” noted Daum via Facebook post. “Looking back, I think the Humboldt...more

St. Louis, MO – As of the conclusion of the 2019 POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint Car League season, POWRi and the Shuman family are announcing that going into the 2020 season, they will be stepping away from the series in a full time capacity. Both Casey and Brooke Shuman have been a part of the sprint car league since the series came under the POWRi banner in 2017. Casey will continue to assist with scheduling and will remain on in an advisory role. “I would like to personally thank both Casey &...more

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (October 15, 2019) – In the penultimate weekend of the 2019 season, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets heads for I-30 Speedway this Saturday, October 19 for their first appearance in league history at the Little Rock, Ark. facility. Co-sanctioned alongside the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midgets, the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micros will also be in action. Only three races remain this year and all focus remains on the nail-biting battle for the POWRi National Midget...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (October 13, 2019) – Leading all 20 laps on Sunday night, Joe B. Miller of Millersville, Mo. dominated at Belle-Clair Speedway and earned his 37th career POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League victory. Earning Bell Helmets #HighPointMan honors with a seventh-to-second heat race, Miller slotted his Ellis Race Cars No. 51B on the pole position for the 20-lap Charlene Meents Memorial main event. Driving away in dominant fashion, Miller had checked out before the first...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (October 13, 2019) – For Logan Seavey, the 2019 POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League season has been one for the ages. After all, his victory on Sunday night at Belle-Clair Speedway sealed the deal on a year-long pursuit of breaking one of POWRi’s most noteworthy records. With his 12th win aboard the Keith Kunz Motorsports, Mobil 1, Bullet/Toyota No. 67, Seavey beat Christopher Bell’s 2014 campaign of 11 wins and established the NEW RECORD for the winningest single season in...more

MARION, ILL. (October 12, 2019) – For the fourth consecutive race, a first-time winner emerged in victory lane with the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. Leading all 20 laps at Southern Illinois Raceway, BJ Gatewood of Caruthersville, Mo. had it far from easy on Saturday night as he was forced to fend off a series of attacks from Gunner Ramey, Luke Veradi and Jordan Howell to park his No. 88 on the front stretch. Leading from start-to-finish in Saturday’s 20-lapper, Gatewood saw...more

MARION, ILL. (October 12, 2019) – Saturday’s Southern Illinois Shootout was a wild one from start-to-finish for the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. Encountering the 1/8th-mile Southern Illinois Raceway for the first and only time this season, drivers faced a rough and rowdy surface with character aplenty. Four different leaders stood at the front, some slipped back and some stormed forward, but through all of the chaos and carnage it was Jake Neuman and Team Ripper capitalizing late...more

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