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(Torrance, CA, April 30, 2019) The POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series will be headed to the Ventura Raceway this Saturday night, May 4th, for a crowd-pleasing open wheel program that will also include the USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, VRA Senior Sprints and the Focus/WMR Midgets. Spectator gates will open at 3:00 P.M. on Saturday and the first race will take the green flag at 5:30. Saturday’s show at the picturesque track that sits just a few hundred feet from the breaking waves...more

ELDON, MO. (April 30, 2019) – The POWRi Lucas Oil Midwest Lightning Sprint League resumed on Friday night with their second event of the season and the first of six appearances at the beautiful Lake Ozark Speedway. A solid 14-car field came out to play in front of an enthusiastic and packed grandstands with the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars also in attendance. Split into a pair of heat races, Brad Strunk of Mason, Ohio and Bobby Layne of Kansas City, Missouri picked up the wins which set the...more

After a nearly one month hiatus, the Lucas Oil POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing 305-ci sprinters get back into race action this coming Saturday night, May 4, as they head to Lincoln County Raceway in North Platte, Nebraska for the fourth annual “Ron Williams/Dick Snoose Myers Memorial.” It will be the only appearance of the 2019 season at the speedway and will pay $1500-to win while just starting the twenty-car-feature finale pays $200. Also, the driver...more

Tulsa, Okla. (April 28, 2019) (Photo Credit: Danny Clum) - From early stage sliders to late-race trials, Carl Junction, Missouri’s Andrew Felker encountered it all en route to his POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League win on Saturday night at Port City Raceway. Driving the Chad Shields Racing, Hyper No. 44S, Felker, who was the 2012 POWRi National Midget champion and grew up in the micro sprint ranks at PCR, led 19 of 25 feature laps. With 23 cars in attendance for round two of “Midget Mayhem,”...more

Sapulpa, Okla. (April 27, 2019) – It was Midget Mayhem indeed on Friday night at Creek County Speedway as Jonathan Beason and Cannon McIntosh delivered an exciting conclusion to the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League main event. Only one month removed from his insane Turnpike Challenge triumph over Christopher Bell, Beason came back out to play and once again found victory lane, this time by fending off McIntosh’s late-race sliders and topping a stacked 26-car field. The night began with a...more

Grain Valley: Pat Schudy returned to victory lane Friday night in POWRi Valley Outlaw Midget action leading from start to finish in the feature event. For the veteran driver who will be 60 years old in September, it was his first win in the series since 2014 when he won the championship. His 7s Machine was fast all night for the Springfield, Mo. ace as he earned the pole position for the 20 lapper by scoring the most passing points in his heat. Schudy credited his chief mechanic Jeff...more

(Torrance, CA, April 24, 2019) Five-time series champion Bobby Michnowicz etched his name onto the victory ledger for the first time in 2019 when he won the POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series main event in a thrilling finish last Saturday night at the Bakersfield Speedway. The victory was Michnowicz first at the Kern County clay oval since 2017. Twenty-seven CLS cars took time trials at the longtime track that is referred to as “The West’s Fastest 1/3 Mile High Banked...more

With a successful dirt opener under the POWRi billing taking place last month, Saturday night the scene shifts to pavement as the POWRi BCRA Lucas Oil Midget Series invades Stockton 99 Dirt Track for the series’ first pavement event of the 2019 season. During 2018 action on pavement, Chad Nichols emerged as the series champion after a torrid season long battle with Mark Maliepaard and young Jesse Love. With it being the first race of the 2019 pavement season, Stockton 99 is offering an open...more

Belleville, IL – Tomorrow’s 28th Annual Arnie Knepper Memorial featuring action from the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool 600cc Outlaw Micro League has been cancelled due to the continuous rainfall over the past three days. POWRi and Belle-Clair Speedway officials are actively seeking a date for rescheduling. “The rain gauge at the track shows three inches of rain,” commented Brian Thompson of Belle-Clair Speedway. This spring hasn’t been kind to...more

TULSA, OKLA. (April 24, 2019) – A thrilling doubleheader in “The 918” awaits the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League heading into their first standalone weekend of the 2019 season. Scheduled for Midget Mayhem on April 26 and April 27, the West Midgets will encounter Sapulpa’s Creek County Speedway on Friday night followed by a trip to Tulsa’s Port City Raceway on Saturday. With four co-sanctioned shows along with the POWRi National Midgets and one rain out at I-44 Riverside Speedway in the...more