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HAUBSTADT, IN (June 15, 2018) - With this news release, the Tri-State Speedway management would like to announce a change to the 2018 racing schedule at the track. The POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint Car Series has accepted an offer to race at the Haubstadt oval on October 13, 2018. The agreement was reached in discussions to see if a rain date could be found for the “Summer Showdown” which was rained out on June 9th. Rather than add a new date to a crowded calendar a previously scheduled race...more

Lonnie Wheatley, MEEKER, Okla. (June 15, 2018) – Nixa, Missouri’s Wesley Smith put the wraps on a perfect night in Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA competition by winning Friday’s 25-lap “Third Annual Sooner Midget Nationals” feature event atop the ¼-mile Red Dirt Raceway clay oval. After winning his heat race earlier in the evening from fourth aboard the All Metal Recycling/Midwest Sheet Metal No. 44 entry to earn BOSS Performance High Point driver of the...more

LINCOLN, IL (June 15, 2018) - Carson Short picked up his first POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Wildcard win of his career Friday night at Lincoln Speedway in Lincoln, Illinois. WAR Wildcard point leader, Landon Simon, finished second and 2017 WAR Champion, Korey Weyant, completed the podium. Carson Short earned the LRB Inc. High Point Man Award after earning the most passing points with his heat race performance. He drew a six for the invert which put Mitchell Davis and Landon Simon starting on the front...more

Belleville, IL – At the conclusion of POWRi Illinois SPEED Week, Logan Seavey captured the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League Championship. Winning Night Three at Jacksonville Speedway, combined with a fifth place finish in the SPEED Week opener at Belle-Clair Speedway and a third place finish at Fayette County in Night Two, Seavey capitalized on Tanner Thorson’s misfortune at Jacksonville Speedway and was able to snag the POWRi Illinois SPEED Week title. In addition to Seavey’s POWRi...more

Hollan Takes POWRi Illinois SPEED Week Title Belleville, IL – At the conclusion of POWRi Illinois SPEED Week, Harley Hollan captured the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League Championship. In the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro League portion of SPEED Week, Harley Hollan captured the title with a win at Fayette County Speedway in night two, a fifth place finish at the SPEED Week opener at Belle-Clair Speedway, and a second place finish at Jacksonville Speedway in night...more

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 12, 2018) – The Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget League presented by Executive Concrete NWA fires back into action with a pair of events in the Sooner State this weekend. The series takes to the ¼-mile Red Dirt Raceway near Meeker on Friday night for the Third Annual Sooner Midget Nationals before moving on to Oklahoma City’s I-44 Riverside Speedway on Saturday night. Both events will count toward POWRi West Sooner Series points as well as POWRi West overall...more

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (June 11, 2018) - Lincoln Speedway hosts the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Wildcard Sprints this coming Friday, June 15 in Lincoln, Illinois for the first and only time in 2018. WAR Wildcard debuted at Lincoln Speedway in 2017 and Dave Darland was the driver standing in victory lane at the conclusion of the night. Mario Clouser, Joe B. Miller, and Landon Simon are the three WAR Wildcard victors so far in 2018. Ohio native, Landon Simon currently leads the WAR Wildcard points over Mario...more

KNOXVILLE, IA (June 9, 2018) - The Sprint Car Capital of the World is adding another crown jewel event to its already action-packed season schedule. Starting in 2019, Knoxville Raceway will host a two-day non-wing sprint car race – The Corn Belt Nationals – on Friday and Saturday, July 5 and 6, 2019. “Knoxville is proud to host another Nationals event, especially one that brings us back to our roots of non-wing racing,” said John McCoy, Knoxville Raceway promoter. “Non-wing racing opens up our...more

JACKSONVILLE, IL (June 8, 2018) - Joe B. Miller found his way to victory lane twice Friday night at Jacksonville Speedway in Jacksonville, Illinois. Once in his micro, and again with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Wildcard Sprints. After earning the LRB Inc. High Point Man honors for his heat race passing points, Miller pulled the 4 for the redraw invert. Landon Simon and Korey Weyant led the 20-car field to green and Weyant would lead the early laps running the top. Miller would work his way up to...more

SPEED Week Championship Down To Final Event Sunday At Lincoln Speedway (Macon, IL) After completing the first three events of the 2018 POWRi Illinois SPEEDWEEK, rain hit hard on Saturday morning in Macon, Illinois, forcing the cancelation of the Macon Speedway event. Drivers, officials, and fans are left highly disappointed as the event was sure to be huge with a great field of cars and the typical crazy action the Midgets bring to the high banked 1/5-mile dirt track. The Macon Speedway event...more