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Belleville, IL. (1/28/2022) Continuing to evolve to meet the growing demand of premier grassroots racing while broadening horizons, Performance Open Wheel Racing Incorporated is honored to sanction the POWRi Midwestern Modifieds and POWRi Pure Stock Divisions for the 2022 season and beyond. “After the initial successful launch of the POWRi Super Stock Division that will see even more tracks added to the program in 2022, we have been working with tracks to develop a package to ensure programs...more

Belleville, IL. (1/27/22) Never settling on the laurels of the past, three-time POWRi WAR Sprint League champion Riley Kreisel, of Warsaw Missouri, continually strives for more. With new possibilities for on-track achievements a common question remains, can Kreisel become the first Dual-Sprint Champion within POWRi sanctioning as the 2022 season approaches? Entering rarified air by becoming the first-ever three-time champion by capturing titles in 2018, 2019, & 2020 within the POWRi Lucas Oil...more

Belleville, IL. (1/24/22) Quickly establishing a dominant racing program throughout the Midwest, third-generation open-wheel talent Ayrton Gennetten of Versailles Missouri, will next embark on a quest of national notoriety with commitments at events within the developing Lucas Oil POWRi 410 Wing Outlaw Sprint League. Emerging as a threat of on-track dominance every time he enters an event, Gennetten is no stranger to gaining victory hardware in various classes. Acquiring a coveted Golden...more

Belleville, IL. (1/17/2022) Venturing from the traditions of previous seasons, the POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro League presented by Engler Machine and Tool will offer competitors twenty-seven events in 2022 while continuing to mirror similar racing dates of the Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget League at six separate facilities. Headlining a pair of marquee events including the continuance of the Fourth Annual Keith Kunz Motorsports Giveback Classic at Port City Raceway in October, the Engler...more

Belleville, IL. (1/15/2022) Entering into their highly anticipated third season under the POWRi umbrella of sanctioning, the POWRi Southwest Lightning Sprints are all set to continue the outstanding racing for the 2022 season with twenty-seven dates of competition on the agenda. Spanning eleven various hosting venues of speed, the POWRi SWLS will see the weekend visits to Imperial Valley Speedway bookend the season with March 3-4 kicking off the year racing action October 22-23. With trips to...more

Belleville, IL. (1/12/22) Emerging as a steady weekly racing division with outstanding open-wheel action while continuing to grow in entries, the POWRi RaceSaver Super Sprints at Lake Ozark Speedway will see more racing scheduled in the upcoming season with a hearty twenty-two events on the calendar. Offering competitors a near-weekly season of racing, the POWRi RaceSaver Super Sprints will first tackle the speedy one-third mile oval for the POWRi 410 Wing Outlaw Showcase on Saturday, April...more

Belleville, IL. (1/11/22) Sticking true to the focus of offering classes to fit drivers as they progress through the sport, POWRi continues to build upon the momentum of the more than prevalent youth movement the racing world is witnessing. Resetting the POWRi record-books in 2021 would see victory lanes become younger and younger with the level of talent repeatedly raised as two drivers would notch victories barely into their teenage years in CB Industries’ Brent Crews and KKM’s Gavan...more

Belleville, IL. (1/11/22) Offering some of the nation’s best Lightning Sprint racing year after year, the POWRi Rocky Mountain Lightning Sprint Association aims to continue the on-track excitement in 2022 with a variety of twenty-nine race dates at four premier Centennial State facilities ranging from April until October including a pair of POWRi National Lightning Sprint events. Starting the season on Saturday, May 3rd at their home facility of I-76 Speedway, in Fort Morgan Colorado, the...more

Belleville, IL. (01/11/22) Continuing to grow in entries and excitement, while moving into the fourth full season of POWRi sanctioning competition, the POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprints have revealed their thirty-event 2022 season schedule. With five fantastic speed-venues hosting the tight-quarter racing that ranges from April until September as well as a pair of POWRi National Lightning Sprint events to entice competitors. Opening the POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprint 2022 racing season and...more

Belleville, IL (1/9/22) The Lucas Oil POWRi National Midget League in the 2022 racing season will see a schedule of thirty-eight events spanning from March through October with highly anticipated visits to sixteen various racing venues. Serving as the POWRi Season Opener the Lucas Oil POWRi National Midgets will link up with the Lucas Oil POWRi West Midgets for the Ninth Annual Turnpike Challenge. Starting with Port City Raceway for practice night on Wednesday, March 23rd, followed by the...more