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Belleville, IL – After their weekend off, the POWRi Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series will head to Belle-Clair Speedway on Friday, May 13th before taking to Southern Illinois Raceway on Saturday, May 14th. After starting off the season on the high-banked fifth mile, Belle-Clair has hosted two action packed POWRi Micro events so far in 2016 with Nathan Benson taking both. Saturday, May 14th will be one of two events for Southern Illinois Raceway to host POWRi in 2016. Both tracks are...more

Belleville, IL – Effective immediately, the Midwest Micro Sprints based out of Kewaskum, Wisconsin has partnered with POWRi to create the POWRi North Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series presented by Cab Construction. “I approached POWRi to join forces and help get the Northern region a more consistent rule package with the rest of the Midwest and to grow micro sprint racing in the state of Wisconsin,” said Midwest Micro Sprints owner, Andy Rein. The POWRi North Speedway Motors 600cc...more

Wheatland, MO – After taking the opening night of the Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals at Valley Speedway on Friday night, Tanner Thorson ran away with night number two at Lucas Oil Speedway. Saturday night’s win resulted in a weekend sweep for Thorson and a complete podium sweep for Keith Kunz Motorsports. Thorson’s fifth career POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series victory came on his birthday, no less. Starting on the front row, Tyler Thomas showed the field to green sharing the front...more

Patrick Bruns WINS Sycamore hometown track.

An outstanding field of POWRi/Illini D-II Midgets presented by Nutech Seed were pitside for the night’s events. 26 quick and nimble wingless warriors lined up for the 20-lap feature event. After a couple failed opening starts, one of which included a turn one tumble, the field got rolling smoothly. 2015 track champion, Andy Baugh, of Mason City, IL drove out front and into the lead. Baugh turned down the Conklin Agrovantage Front Row Challenge, which awards a driver bonus money by starting...more

Grain Valley, MO – Tanner Thorson of Minden, Nevada started in the 12th position and stole the 30 lap co-sanctioned Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget Series and Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget Series feature after an intense battle with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports teammate, Spencer Bayston. Thorson’s victory credits him with night number one of the Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals at Valley Speedway, and puts a tally on the board in the National column for the National versus West...more

Belleville, IL – This weekend, the Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget Series and Lucas Oil POWRi West Midget Series make the annual trek to Valley Speedway on Friday, May 6th and kick off the Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals. Saturday, both series will visit the title-sponsor owned, incredible “Diamond of Dirt Tracks,” Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri to round out the weekend. The Speedway Motors POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro Series will take the weekend off and resume racing at...more

Belleville, IL – After a successful month of April for the Lucas Oil POWRi ILLINI Division II Midget Series, the series sets its sights on a stacked month of May. Friday, May 6th the D II will be at Lincoln Speedway for the Mother’s Day Special before heading to Sycamore Speedway on Saturday, May 7th. Friday, May 13th the D II will be back at Jacksonville Speedway and Friday, May 20th the D II will be at Lincoln Speedway with the All Star Sprints for the D II’s third appearance of nine in...more

Belleville, IL – Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, Missouri overtook Zach Daum in the final laps of the Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget Series feature event to earn his sixth-career victory with the series, on a two-in-a-row victory streak after his win last week at Macon Speedway. Nathan Benson of Concordia, Missouri utilized lap traffic to pick off Slater Helt for his second Speedway Motors 600cc Outlaw Micro Series victory of 2016, his 17th victory with the series. In typical thrilling...more

Macon, IL– Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, Missouri had the fast setup at Mighty Macon Speedway, claiming his sixth-career Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget Series victory, his fourth at the high-banked 1/5th mile. Frank Galusha proved that last night’s Speedway Motors POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro Series victory at Jacksonville Speedway was no fluke by taking another 20 lap main event. Patrick Bruns showed yet again that he is the man to beat in the Lucas Oil POWRi ILLINI D II Midget Series scene,...more