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DODGE CITY, Kansas (August 21, 2020) – Forty cars entered into competition on Friday night for the second preliminary night of the Fourth Annual Sprint Car Nationals at Dodge City Raceway Park with the United Rebel Sprint Series. Lucas Oil POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing point leader, Zach Blurton, claimed the victory when apparent winner, John Carney II, was disqualified during post-race inspections. It was Carney and Blake Scott setting the pace for...more

DODGE CITY, Kansas (August 20, 2020) – The Lucas Oil POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing took on night one of the Lubbock Wrecker Service Sprint Car Nationals at Dodge City Raceway Park on Thursday night. Jake Bubak, a regular and three time champion with the United Rebel Sprint Series, picked up right where he left off at Dodge City Raceway Park after sweeping all three nights of last year’s Sprint Car Nationals. After winning his heat race, Bubak went on...more

Lincoln, IL. (08/21/2020) The Colby, KS. Native- Bryant Wiedeman picked up his first ever POWRi Engler Machine and Tool 600cc Outlaw Micro League Victory at Lincoln Speedway. Leading all 20 laps and battling through the rubber from the midgets, Wiedeman beats all and landed himself in the winner’s circle. After starting on the pole of the 20-lap main event, Wiedeman overtook the lead from the beginning battling off veteran drivers behind him. Aaron Andruskevitch found himself running a...more

Lincoln, IL. (08/21/2020) Even in the rubber Michael “Buddy” Kofoid found the sweet spot around the top of Lincoln Speedway and took the lead from lap one. Going the distance from there, Kofoid landed his fifth win of the year with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. Bringing the field to the green flag, Cannon McIntosh of Bixby OK. and Michael “Buddy” Kofoid of Penngrove, CA. started the front row of the 30-lapper. Kofoid, a recent winner at Charleston Speedway in July, shot his #67...more

Belleville, IL. (08/19/2020) The Lincoln, Nebraska-native, Trey Gropp is making a valiant effort to capture POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Rookie of the Year honors. Gropp took over the Rookie of the Year points lead last weekend with a two-day race at Federated Auto Parts I-55 Raceway for the Ironman 55. So far on the year, Gropp has two top three finishes and three top ten with the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. His career best finish with the national midgets is a third-place...more

Belleville, IL. (08/18/2020) A fan favorite from Tahlequah, OK. Ace McCarthy is looking to close up the points battle between him and old teammate, Jake Neuman this weekend at Illinois SPEED Weekend. At the beginning of the 2019 race season, Jim Neuman Racing of New Berlin, Illinois added a new combatant in Oklahoma’s Ace McCarthy. McCarthy picked up his first career POWRi West triumph in September of 2017 at I-30 Speedway in Arkansas, then followed that with another victory in April 2018 at...more

DODGE CITY, Kansas (August 17, 2020) – The time has arrived for the Fourth Annual Dodge City Raceway Park Sprint Car Nationals this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, August 20th-22nd. The weekend will produce a three-day show full of sprint car action as the POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing goes head-to-head with the Hambelton Racing DCRP Sprint Cars for the $3,000 top-prize and added bonus moneys on Saturday’s finale. Last year’s Sprint Car...more

Belleville, IL. (08/17/2020) The POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League fires back off this weekend with a stand-alone show at I-44 Riverside Speedway. The action kicks off on Saturday, August 22 with a stop at I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, OK. Andrew Felker of Carl Junction, MO has had nothing but a dominating year with the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League. Piloting the Chad Shields Racing, MelMark Pipe & Supply, Ripper/Fontana No. 44S, Felker has the points lead and is grabbing...more

Belleville, IL. (08/17/2020) Entering into the homestretch of the 2020 season for the POWRi Lucas Oil Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League, many marquee events are approaching rapidly. With added pay, “Border-War Bounties”, and a Top 24 in points event at I-70, various storylines aid in the excitement of the end-of-season push for the POWRi WAR Sprint League. Next up for WAR competitors will be the first series visit since 2014 to the three-eighths-mile dirt-oval of Central Missouri Speedway,...more

Belleville, IL. (08/17/2020) Suffering the wrath of an unapologetic mother-nature, the POWRi Lucas Oil Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints would not see the racing surface this past Friday in sanctioned competition with the event at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, ND. The entire weekend was not a wash-out though as officials would go above and beyond giving drivers a venue to compete in unsanctioned racing on Saturday evening at Devils Lake Speedway in Crary, ND. MKLS series director Jason...more