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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

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (July 25, 2018) - Offering up a new incentive full of enticement and extra cash for racers, the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League has brought to light the High Point Challenge presented by Valor Racing. Beginning at the WAR Wildcard show at Wilmot Raceway on August 4th and carrying through the remainder of the season, the high point man each night will have the opportunity to forgo his right to redraw and fall to the tail of the feature field. Starting with a $1,000 bonus, the...more

ELDON, MO (August 17, 2018) - Capitalizing on a late-race mistake from Landon Simon, Wyatt Burks of Topeka, Kansas stormed into the race lead on the 21st circuit and held on for his seventh-career POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints League victory tonight at Lake Ozark Speedway. After Simon commanded the opening 20 laps, a costly mistake drifting over the cushion in turn two allowed Burks to throw the slider and take the top spot. He then fended off Simon's final attempt for the win a...more

ELDON, MO (August 18, 2018) - After missing Friday's opener to the WAR Non-Wing Nationals, Kyle Cummins hauled down to Eldon, Missouri on Saturday from his hometown of Princeton, Indiana to join the field for just second-ever event with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League. At the end of the night, he led from start-to-finish and dominated all 25 laps at the Lake Ozark Speedway to score his second-career victory, a $3,000 payday, and the inaugural championship at the WAR Non-Wing Nationals....more

ELDON, MO (August 19, 2018) - After a near six-month span of hype and anticipation building, the high-stakes Bell Racing USA Triple Crown Challenge finally kicked off last night at Lake Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Missouri. Leading from start-to-finish and scoring a dominating win, Kyle Cummins of Princeton, Indiana made himself eligible for the five-figure payday. All that separates him from a huge $20,000 earning is two more victories with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League at two of the...more

HUMBOLDT, KS (August 24, 2018) - Overtaking Riley Kreisel on the sixteenth lap, Wesley Smith of Nixa, Missouri ran away with the final nine laps of tonight's POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints League main event at Humboldt Speedway. Capitalizing on Kreisel's mistake on the turn two cushion, Smith turned it down the track and stormed by Kreisel to take the top spot and drove away unchallenged to win at Humboldt for his second-career feature victory with the WAR Sprints, following his first-career...more

HUMBOLDT, KS (August 25, 2018) - Capitalizing on the trouble that can be lap traffic, Riley Kreisel overtook Ty Hulsey for the top spot just past halfway tonight at Humboldt Speedway and stormed off with his third victory of the season with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints League. Earning tonight's LRB, Inc. #HighPointMan honors, Kreisel started from the pole position, but it was Ty Hulsey who jumped into the lead off the start. After trailing Hulsey for 14 laps, Kreisel capitalized when Hulsey...more

EAGLE, NE (September 9, 2018) - In arguably the most impressive feature run of the 2018 POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints League season, Jason Martin fed off the hometown crowd and stormed from the inside of the ninth row to take his first-career WAR Sprints victory in thrilling fashion. After Slater Helt, Dylan Kadous and Quinton Benson waged war in what was a knockdown, drag out fight for the top spot in the opening half, Martin, who resides in nearby Lincoln, Nebraska, stole the show in the...more

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (September 13, 2018) - The most anticipated event of the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League season is quickly approaching as the eighth annual Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial is just over one week away. With 62 pre-entries already signed-in for the sprint car extravaganza at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri, the WAR Sprints have revamped the format and boosted the purse, with a racer-friendly focus in mind. Instead of the typical six heat race, three semi...more

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (September 18, 2018) - When the highly-anticipated Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial fires off this Thursday at Lucas Oil Speedway, the high-stakes Bell Racing USA Triple Crown Challenge resumes with a potential five-figure payday on the line for Kyle Cummins. After earning a dominating score in Lake Ozark Speedway's WAR Non-Wing Nationals, Cummins is only two more victories away from claiming a $20,000 check and becoming the inaugural champion of the Bell Racing USA...more