Belleville, IL. (5/29/23) Celebrating the Memorial holiday weekend in true racing adventurous style, the POWRi Lightning Sprint Division would witness a full stratagem of all four regions completing the weekend competitions with a pair of two-day hosting regions.
Feature winners over the weekend would include Trice Roden double-dipping in victories with the Midwest Lightning Sprints at Central Missouri Speedway’s two-day Memorial Weekend events. Jason Woods would win with Rocky Mountain at El Paso County Raceway with Jeff Dyer victorious at Perris Auto Speedway in the Southwest Lightning Sprints, as well as defending National Champion Alex Truscinski victorious at River Cities Speedway and Kelsi Pederson winning at Devils Lake Speedway with the Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints.
POWRi Lightning Sprint Feature Results | May 26-28:
• MKLS @ River Cities Speedway (5/26/23): 1. 10-Alex Truscinski[1]; 2. 27-Weston Olson[3]; 3. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[5]; 4. 100-Jason Berg[4]; 5. 72-Kate Taves[2]; 6. 93-Kelsi Pederson[6]; 7. 1W-Mark Williams[10]; 8. 13-Alan Truscinski[8]; 9. 40-Evan Yanish[9]; 10. 23-Gerald Hatlestadt[11]; 11. 99-Brody Graham[14]; 12. 7S-Sean Enright[12]; 13. 20-Jasmyn Hatlestad[15]; 14. (DNF) 87-Matthew Taves[7]; 15. (DNF) 4-Dylan Langevin[13].
• MLS @ Central Missouri Speedway (5/27/23): 1. 27R-Trice Roden[2]; 2. 13-Josiah King[1]; 3. 74C-Jeff Bard[6]; 4. 51-Mark Billings[7]; 5. 85-Ken Billings[8]; 6. 10-Chasity Younger[11]; 7. 7-Tyler Johnson[9]; 8. 49B-Kenny Bowers[5]; 9. 91-Mike Tindell[10]; 10. (DNF) RJ45-Jerran Falke[3]; 11. (DNS) 18-Stanley Kreisel; 12. (DNS) 42-Gage Trube.
• RMLSA @ El Paso County Raceway (5/27/23): 1. 82-Jason Woods[1]; 2. 7-Josh Flood[3]; 3. 1-Troy Ullery[4]; 4. 5-TJ Trengove[7]; 5. 9F-Andy Flood[6]; 6. 21B-BJ Sauer[5]; 7. 31-Steve Becker[2]; 8. 16-Zack Downey[10]; 9. 00-Bruce Swain[8]; 10. 33-Gale Ingram[9].
• SWLS @ Perris Auto Speedway (5/27/23): 1. 4-Jeff Dyer[2]; 2. 44-Brent Sexton[5]; 3. 4JR-Seth Dyer[4]; 4. 3-Geoff Dale[7]; 5. 54-Jim Squire[1]; 6. 56-Cody Griggs[3]; 7. 03-Pat Kelley[6]; 8. 33-Mike Kotlinski[8].
• MKLS @ Devils Lake Speedway (5/27/23): 1. 93-Kelsi Pederson[4]; 2. 87-Matthew Taves[2]; 3. 100-Jason Berg[3]; 4. 13-Alan Truscinski[5]; 5. 10-Alex Truscinski[6]; 6. 1W-Mark Williams[7]; 7. 19S-Travis Surerus[8]; 8. (DNF) 72-Kate Taves[1]; 9. (DNF) 40-Evan Yanish[9]; 10. (DNS) 00-Ron Morlock.
• MLS @ Central Missouri Speedway (5/28/23): 1. 27R-Trice Roden[2]; 2. 13-Josiah King[7]; 3. RJ45-Jerran Falke[1]; 4. 51-Mark Billings[3]; 5. 85-Ken Billings[4]; 6. 7-Tyler Johnson[10]; 7. 10-Chasity Younger[5]; 8. 49B-Kenny Bowers[8]; 9. 74C-Jeff Bard[6]; 10. (DNF) 91-Mike Tindell[9].
Current 2023 POWRi Lightning Sprint National Points Standings | As of 5/29/23:
- Cody Griggs, 2. Brent Sexton -20, 3. Seth Dyer -290, 4. Josiah King -390, 5. Kelsi Pederson -530, 6. Chasity Younger -550, 7. Alan Truscinski -590, 8. Alex Truscinski -600, 9. Kate Taves -620, 10. Troy Ullery -630.
Current POWRi Lightning Sprints Points standings are available online at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=826506.
Tentative POWRi Lightning Sprints Upcoming Point-Event Schedule:
6/3/23: I-35 Speedway | Winston, MO | MLS
6/3/23: I-76 Speedway | Fort Morgan, CO | RMLSA
6/3/23: Greenbush Race Park | Greenbush, MN | MKLS
6/4/23: Buffalo River Speedway | Glyndon, MN | MKLS
6/10/23: Central Missouri Speedway | Warrensburg, MO | MLS
6/10/23: Devils Lake Speedway | Crary, ND | MKLS
6/11/23: Buffalo River Speedway | Glyndon, MN | MKLS
6/16/23: Rivers Cities Speedway | Grand Forks, ND | MKLS
6/17/23: Nevada Speedway | Nevada, MO | MLS
6/17/23: Honor Speedway | Pueblo, CO | RMLSA | Wingless
6/23/23: Rivers Cities Speedway | Grand Forks, ND | MKLS
6/24/23: El Paso County Raceway | Calhan, CO | RMLSA | Wingless
6/24/23: Greenbush Race Park | Greenbush, MN | MKLS
6/25/23: Rivers Cities Speedway | Grand Forks, ND | MKLS
6/30/23: Central Missouri Speedway | Warrensburg, MO | MLS
7/1/23: Greenbush Race Park | Greenbush, MN | MKLS
7/1/23: I-76 Speedway | Fort Morgan, CO | RMLSA
POWRi Lightning Sprint Full 2023 Schedule is available online at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=801426&fbclid=IwAR0R3ImydR5ScNVRTXf3VZpyFHjPJkkPdHtSdD8TK-2jU1M7gE9aLoyLDAU.
Full Point fund for the National POWRi Lightning Sprint Division can be found at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=690554. A breakdown of the POWRi Lightning Sprint National Points System can be found online at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=690553. Rules and guidelines are available online at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=611007.
More information about the POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprint can be found online at www.midwestlightningsprintsracing.com, or on Facebook.
Future updates and information regarding the POWRi Olson Underground Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints can be found at www.minnkotalightningsprints.com or follow along on social media.
For more information on the POWRi EMi Rocky Mountain Lightning Sprint Association visit www.rmlsa.com or Facebook and Twitter pages @RMLSA.
Updates on the POWRi Southwest Lightning Sprint Car Series can be found at www.southwestlightningsprints.net or follow along on Facebook.
Follow along for more information on the further growth of the POWRi Lightning Sprints Division and other items such as complete schedules, race recaps, updates, full results, and press releases online at www.powri.com, or on Twitter & Instagram at @POWRi_Racing or on Facebook at POWRi.
Photo Credit: Joshua Allee Photography