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Belleville, IL. (10/4/23) The Meents family is excited to welcome Driven 2 Save Lives as the presenting sponsor for the 19th Annual Charlene Meents Memorial. Driven 2 Save Lives was created in 2016 by the Indiana Donor Network to promote organ and tissue donation during the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500. When Bryan Clauson, winner of the 2014 Charlene Meents Memorial, tragically lost his life later in 2016, his choice to be an organ donor helped save five lives and his tissue donation...more

Belleville, IL (10/3/23) Mounting in momentum, the Fifth Annual KKM Giveback Classic, returning to Port City Raceway on October 19-21, continues to intensify the intrigue surrounding the event for the POWRi Outlaw Non-Wing Micro League main events as entries escalate. Driver Registration remains available online at https://www.myracepass.com/series/1572/registrations/7898 with an entry fee of $250 before October 9th; entries received after the deadline will be $300 for the Outlaw Non-Wing...more

Belleville, IL. (10/5/23) Returning to realms of royalty after a rescheduling, the POWRi Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League will next see competition in the fifth annual and honorary quest to be ‘King of Kansas City’ presented by Lies Trash Service on Saturday, October 7th at Valley Speedway in Grain Valley, Missouri with bonus pay on the line. Going down to the wire, the seasonal standings within the POWRi WAR Sprint League witness the most recent victor at Valley Speedway Jack Wagner...more

Belleville, IL. (10/5/23) Remaining true to traditions of the previous trio of seasons with hyped fanfare, Hard Eight Racing, in collaboration with The Donnie Ray Crawford Legacy Foundation, Port City Raceway, and Performance Open Wheel Racing Incorporated, is eagerly anticipating the Fourth Annual Donnie Ray Crawford Sooner-State 55 on Thursday, October 12th headlined by the POWRi National and West Midget Leagues, running in conjunction with the Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series. Featuring the...more

Belleville, IL. (10/6/23) Remaining steady with the highly successful change of location and expansion of intrigue, the 19th Annual Charlene Meents presented by Driven to Save Lives will once again tackle the red-clay and fast times of I-44 Riverside Speedway for a two-day open-wheel spectacle of speed on October 13-14 with the POWRi National and West Midget Leagues, running in conjunction with Xtreme Outlaw Midgets, honoring a great groundbreaking innovator of our sport while crowning league...more

Belleville, IL. (10/8/23) Lighting issues in turn four would darken then cancel the feature just as the A-Main began to roll out on the track in the fifth annual running of the King of Kansas City feature at Valley Speedway with the POWRi Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League; unable to remedy the electrical issues would force track officials to cancel the remainder of the event. Initial on-track actions would witness Wyatt Burks start quickest in hot laps with a 13462-second lap as Samuel...more

Belleville, IL. (10/8/23) Welcoming back to the returning open-wheel action of the POWRi New Mexico Motor Racing Association, Sandia Speedway would find the seventeenth series event of 2023 full of adrenaline rushes as JR Bonesteel would capture the feature win for the third time in his career. Starting the on-track adrenaline rushes at Sandia Speedway for the POWRi NMMRA would witness Michael Fanelli and JR Bonesteel each earning the heat race wins as well as Colt Treharn earning the night's...more

Belleville, IL. (10/8/2023) Engaging in eight events in the competitive 2023 racing season, the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series presented by MVT Services would witness an intense battle of on-track performances at a duo of venues as Don Grable would find the championship-winning formula for the third-year series. Winning his series championship, Don Grable would complete the season with five top-five performances at Aztec Speedway and Vado Speedway Park while also notching a pair of heat race...more

Belleville, IL. (10/4/2023) Embarking on a three-venue journey spanning seven events throughout Illinois, the newly sanctioned POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association would witness the competitive rise of Shane Morgan capturing the inaugural season points championship throughout an intense and hard-fought yearly battle. Placing inside the top ten in every seasonal battle, Shane Morgan of Creve Coeur Illinois would drive to five top-five performances throughout the season to capture the yearly...more

Belleville, IL. (10/8/23) Contesting through the eleventh feature event of the season in the POWRi Jackson Compaction Vado 305 Wing Sprints would find Royal Jones clinch the checkers over a determined field of divisional driving over top-notch entrants to notch his seventh career series victory. Early on-track competitions would find Mike Archuleta earning the heat racing wins with Royal Jones and Archuleta bringing the field to green as the first row for the twenty-five-lap feature...more