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INDIANAPOLIS, IN (July 17, 2018) - With Friday’s WAR Wildcard appearance at the Champaign County Fairgrounds serving as the halfway mark to our 2018 season, we thought now is a better time than ever to look back on the first part of our year and preview what is still to come. It has been a historic action-packed campaign with some of the best racing to ever graze the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint Car League, and bigger and better things are still around the corner. Through all 16 WAR events this...more

By: Michael Guglielmucci Morris, IL— Three years have passed since Mario Clouser last competed at the Grundy County Speedway. In those three years Clouser has ventured off into the dirt world competing primarily with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League. Friday night, the Auburn, Illinois native and current track record holder returned to his roots to compete in the POWRi Pavement Midget League. The three year hiatus seemed like three days for Clouser as he was quickly able to get up to speed...more

Grain Valley, MO – In dominating fashion, Jake Neuman snapped the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports winning streak in POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League competition. By winning the second night of the Second Annual Thunder in the Valley, Neuman and his family owned team are now one of three different car owners to capture victories throughout 2018 with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget and West League. Neuman, hailing from New Berlin, Illinois, took the top spot from early race...more

Grain Valley, MO – In a well-earned feature win, Riley Goodno took his career-first with the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League in what was the second night of the Second Annual Thunder in the Valley weekend at Valley Speedway. The Second Annual Thunder in the Valley was also the inaugural appearance for the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League. Starting outside front row to Joe B. Miller, Riley Goodno took the lead on the opening lap and never looked back, leading all...more

Grain Valley, MO – Picking up his fifth win of 2018, Tucker Klaasmeyer took the checkers in front of a hometown crowd with the POWRi Lucas Oil National, West, and Outlaw Midget Leagues. Klaasmeyer of Paola, Kansas entered victory lane at Valley Speedway, which is the closest track to the hometown of the current point leader with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. Klaasmeyer’s win in the opening night of the Thunder in the Valley weekend also handed Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian...more

Grain Valley, MO – Taking the inaugural appearance of the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League at Valley Speedway, Harley Hollan landed in victory lane in night one of the Second Annual Thunder in the Valley. Hollan’s Thunder in the Valley victory helped him inch closer to regaining the point lead after relinquishing the lead to Austin Schaeffer following a mechanical failure at Macon Speedway. After starting outside the front row, Riley Goodno overtook Harley Hollan for the lead...more

Belleville, IL – This weekend kicks off the Second Annual Thunder in the Valley at Valley Speedway in Grain Valley, Missouri. Slated for Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14, the Second Annual Thunder in the Valley will showcase the POWRi Lucas Oil National, West, RMMRA and Outlaw Midget Leagues, and for their first appearance at Valley Speedway, the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League. Typically hosting POWRi midgets during the Open Wheel Showdown and Thunder in the Valley...more

Sun Prairie, WI – Standing tall in victory lane, Tanner Carrick etched his name in history, claiming the 37th annual Pepsi Nationals at Angell Park Speedway with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. Carrick will now go down as the 22nd different victor in Pepsi Nationals competition. Starting in the sixth position after the invert for the main event, Carrick had his work cut out for him to move forward. Early race leader Ryan Robinson held the advantage over Zach Daum in the opening...more

FARMINGTON, MO (July 7, 2018) – After watching the race lead slip from his grasp and into the hands of Wyatt Burks on lap 23, Quinton Benson struck with joyous redemption on the final restart to take second Border WAR victory in thrilling fashion at St. Francois County Raceway. Hosting a winner-take-all, side-by-side affair in the closing laps, Benson of Sweet Springs, Missouri outlasted Burks of Overland Park, Kansas in what was one of the most exciting WAR Sprint Car main events of the 2018...more

Fairbury, IL – Never short for close-quarter racing and action, Fairbury American Legion Speedway delivered with Tucker Klaasmeyer and Logan Seavey battling it out all the way to the line on the last lap in the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League feature event. With a collision at the line resulting in Seavey flipping wildly into turn one and Klaasmeyer spun around, Klaasmeyer claimed his fourth victory of 2018 with the league. By virtue of passing points, Klaasmeyer started on the pole...more