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BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 7, 2019) – The 2019 season for the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League rolls on this weekend with the Midwest Season Opener at Belle-Clair Speedway and Macon Speedway. The Illinois doubleheader begins on Friday, May 10 at the Belleville, Illinois 1/5th-mile of Belle-Clair Speedway. On Saturday, May 11, the POWRi Midgets and Micros move on to the “Mighty” Macon Speedway located in Macon, Illinois. After an April...more

NORTH PLATTE, NEB. (May 4, 2019) - Jason Martin made the trip over from Lincoln, Nebraska a profitable one as he held off persistent challenges of defending tour champion Zach Blurton to claim the fourth annual “Ron Williams/Dick Snoose Myers Memorial” as the Lucas Oil POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing made their first and only appearance of the season at Lincoln County Raceway in North Platte, Nebraska on Saturday night. Martin and Darren Berry started on...more

WHEATLAND, MO. (May 4, 2019) – Taking advantage of a green-white-checkered finish, Kory Schudy of Springfield, Missouri mastered the final restart with a pitch-perfect slidejob on Korey Weyant to take the lead on lap 23 at Lucas Oil Speedway and hang on for his first-career POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League victory on Saturday night. A stout field of 36 entries came to play at the Wheatland, Missouri facility as the WAR Sprints hit the track for just the second time in what has been a...more

WHEATLAND, MO. (May 4, 2019) – Winning his 11th-career POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League main event, Sutter, California’s Logan Seavey drove by his Keith Kunz Motorsports teammate Jesse Colwell on lap 23 to snag the win at Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday night. With 31 entries signed-in for the co-sanctioned show between POWRi National and POWRi West, the field was split into four heats won by Jason McDougal (Smith Titanium Heat 1), Tucker Klaasmeyer (Keizer Wheels Heat 2), Cannon McIntosh...more

Lonnie Wheatley, BIXBY, Okla. (May 3, 2019) – With rain eliminating Friday night activities, 16-year-old Cannon McIntosh is set for a full night of action at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri in both Sprint Car and Midget action. McIntosh will take in both the ASCS Warrior Region Sprint Car portion of the event as well as the Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget League event aboard the Dave Mac Motorsports Toyota-TRD Spike No. 08. “It’s going to be fun racing both cars on the same night,...more

Lonnie Wheatley, BIXBY, Okla. (May 3, 2019) – Kaylee Bryson notched her first top-ten finish in Midget racing competition with the POWRi West Midget League at Sapulpa, Oklahoma’s Creek County Speedway last Friday night. Now, the 18-year-old from Muskogee, OK, makes her first visit to Wheatland, Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday night for a Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget event. “It will be my first time to go there, I’m excited to be racing there,” Bryson says. Last week originally...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 2, 2019) – As part of an ever-growing brand, Performance Open Wheel Racing, Inc. is excited to announce the addition of the POWRi Lucas Oil Honor Sprints and the POWRi Lucas Oil Bandit Sprints for the 2019 season. Competing at Honor Speedway in Pueblo, Colorado, the POWRi Lucas Oil Honor Sprints will open their campaign this Saturday, May 4. The Honor Sprints will battle once a month at the Colorado facility with six dates scheduled for 2019. Other races for the Honor...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 1, 2019) – Due to heavy rain throughout the week paired with a forecast expecting more showers, officials have made the call to cancel Friday’s event at Valley Speedway for the POWRi Lucas Oil National/West Midgets and the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League. Saturday’s race at Lucas Oil Speedway is still on as scheduled and plans to proceed without a hitch. With a state-of-the-art facility that includes a phenomenal drainage system and paved pit area, the hard-working crew...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 1, 2019) – After the entire tripleheader of Belle-Clair, I-55, and Jacksonville was washed away last weekend, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League is heading for the “Show-Me State.” The superstars of the National Midgets will join forces with the up-and-coming gassers of the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League for a two-day showdown at Valley Speedway on May 3 and Lucas Oil Speedway on May 4. Opening the weekend will be a visit to Grain Valley, Missouri’s Valley...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (May 1, 2019) – The POWRi BCRA Lucas Oil Midget League resumes this weekend with appearances at The Dirt Track at Kern County Raceway Park on Friday, May 3 followed by a Saturday, May 4 race on the pavement at Madera Speedway. Friday’s event at Kern County marks the second of three POWRi BCRA visits to the Bakersfield facility, the first of which was won by Chase Johnson over Jake Swanson and Maria Cofer in March. Saturday’s Madera Speedway race is also the second appearance...more