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Belleville, IL. (01/19/2021) Continuing to grow in entries, while moving into the third full season of outstanding POWRi sanctioning competition, the POWRi Lucas Oil Midwest Lightning Sprints are highly anticipating their 2021 season schedule. With nice fantastic speed-venues hosting the tight-quarter racing battles from early April until late September including a pair of POWRi National Lightning Sprint events. Opening the POWRi Lucas Oil Midwest Lightning Sprint 2021 racing season will...more

Membership registration for race teams planning on competing with POWRi for all divisions in 2021 can be found on line by entering the Membership Registration link at the top right side of the POWRi website. You can also join under the Info link located at the top of POWRi web site. You must be a POWRi member to be eligible for the year-end point fund and secondary medical insurance. If you are member of POWRi in any division, you will not pay a temporary fee to compete in any other...more

Belleville, IL. (01/20/2021) Entering into the second season under the Performance Open Wheel Racing Incorporated sanctioning body, the POWRi Lucas Oil Southwest Lightning Sprints are all set to continue the outstanding racing for the 2021 season. With nineteen events slotted from late-March until early-October, SWLS drivers will have the opportunity to venture to six states with both wing and non-wing racing on the agenda throughout the year. Based out of southern California, the POWRi Lucas...more

Belleville, IL. (01/21/2021) Remaining with the traditions of previous seasons the POWRi Engler Machine and Tool 600cc Outlaw Micro League will primarily mirror race dates of the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League also including the addition of the KKM Giveback Classic. Visiting ten racing facilities in four states slated for 2021 side-by-side micro battles throughout the year. Starting the season with the annual star-studded “Turnpike Challenge”, the four-day/three-track event spanning...more

Belleville, IL. (01/25/2020) Continuing as a leading auto-racing sanctioning body since 1946, the POWRi Lucas Oil New Mexico Motor Racing Association, based in Albuquerque New Mexico, will see a solid showing of twenty-three events for the upcoming 2021 racing season. Offering a full season of excitement for NMMRA drivers in their championship quest, competitors will venture to three separate Land of Enchantment racing surfaces throughout the year extending from mid-March until...more

Belleville, IL. (02/01/2021) Formed as a cost-effective division that offers competitors and tracks a program of growth and competitiveness for the future racing seasons, the POWRi Super Stock drivers will now have the opportunity to compete for national glory with added incentives on the line. POWRi has committed to a three-year, and beyond, national point fund; with the initial season of 2021 of $10,000, 2022 will increase to $12,000, as 2023 raises the winning fund to $15,000 for all...more

Belleville, IL. (02/04/2021) Drivers chasing a season championship within the POWRi Super Stock Division are set to hit Midwest dirt tracks in 2021, with extra bonuses up for grabs. Comparable to Street Stocks or Stock Cars, and debuting in the upcoming season with weekly battles will now see recognition on a national level. The POWRi Super Stock National Points competitors must be registered POWRi members, points are non-transferable between divisions, all drivers start the season with zero...more

Belleville, IL. (02/8/2021) In just a little over one month’s time, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League will kick start a full year of racing. With a new season opening for the series, a week earlier than normal, Monarch Motor Speedway in Wichita Falls, TX. will be hosting the season opener to jump start the 2021 race season. Monarch Motor Speedway is a new track slated for the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget league. The ¼ mile semi banked dirt oval will be hosting POWRi Midgets in a...more

Belleville, IL. (02/09/2021) Beginning his racing career in 2012, at the age of 7 years old, Odessa Missouri’s Xavier Doney would cut his teeth among the quarter-midget racing-ranks over the next few seasons by quickly racking up the hardware. Making the transition into micro sprints in 2017, Doney immediately became a prominent front-runner. Finishing fifth in the restricted class at the Tulsa Shootout in 2018, Doney would gain the hard charger award in Tulsa the following year. Then, in 2020...more

Eldon, MO. (02/9/2021) Memorial Weekend at “The Lake” will receive a boost of adrenaline in 2021 with the Inaugural running of the Lake Ozark Speedway Memorial Weekend Sprint and Midget Nationals presented by The Drivers Project. Featuring the exciting racing action of the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series National Tour and the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League with a guaranteed purse above $70,000 on the line over the three-day event. Kicking off the Inaugural Lake Ozark Speedway...more