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(Torrance, CA, July 22, 2019) - The POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series will kick off the second half of its 2019 season this Saturday night, July 27th, with its only appearance of the year at the Santa Maria Raceway. Spectator gates will open at 4:00 P.M. with qualifying at 5:00 and racing at 5:30. (The attached photo of Doug Nunes, Shane Sexton and Frank Ditmar is courtesy of Pit Princess Photography) Through the first half of the season, Spring Valley’s Jarrett Kramer,...more

WINSTON, MO. (July 20, 2019) – Advancing to the front and surviving several late-race restarts including a green-white-checkered finish, Tyler Murry of Dover, Mo. was the victor on Saturday night at I-35 Speedway as he nabbed his first-career POWRi Lucas Oil Midwest Lightning Sprint League win. Outgunning Mike Tindell into turn one, JP Falke of Odessa, Mo. took the early lead of the main event. A caution on lap three quickly restacked the field and saw Murry present a challenge to Falke for...more

GRAIN VALLEY, MO. (July 19, 2019) - Chris Morgan of Topeka, Kans. earned the title of "King of Kansas City" on Friday night, topping the 50-lap main event at Valley Speedway. Sitting in fourth-place at the halfway competition caution, Morgan trailed young Jack Wagner of Lone Jack, Mo. in the Jesse Hockett Racing No. 77, Quinton Benson's No. 15B and Chris Parkinson aboard his No. 65 entry. Making the most of the open red flag that allowed crews the opportunity to throw a curveball at the setup,...more

PEVELY, MO. (July 19, 2019) - One of the most anticipated events on the POWRi Lucas Oil National / West Midget calendar looms only two weeks away in the form the Ironman 55, a two-day showing at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 alongside the World of Outlaws Sprint Cars on Friday and Saturday, August 2-3. A staple on the schedule since 2015, the POWRi Midgets have been on the docket alongside the World of Outlaws for four years now at the Ironman 55. Previous to the recent return to the...more

A small field of wingless sprint cars made their way to El Paso County Raceway on July 13th for the next event on the POWRi Warrior Sprint Car Series schedule. The heat race was won by Frank Martinez of Parker, Colo. after pole sitter Jesse Fernandez also of Parker and Jeff Seesholtz of Colorado Springs collided on the opening lap collecting Mike Hathaway of Colorado Springs, Colorado in the carnage. Martinez would start on the pole of the main and got the early jump on Fernandez coming to...more

The POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprints were at I-35 Speedway Sat night for our 2nd night of the Mid-Season Championship weekend. The Mid Season Championship weekend sponsors are Country Kids Day Care, Layne Machine, Anthony’s Chimney Sweeps, Lowery Legal, and Miller Farms. Also, a BIG thank you goes out to our sponsors for 2019, Racing Boys, Rod End Supply and Oskvig Accounting. Bobby and Tyler Johnson brought the cars to the green. Stanley got by Tyler and was running beside Bobby on the first...more

(Torrance, CA, July 10, 2019) Two-time POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series champion Jarrett Kramer kept up his domination of the Ventura Raceway last Saturday night when he scored his fourth win in four 2019 appearances at the track. The victory allowed the veteran driver to increase his lead in the championship standings to 42-points as the season reached the halfway point. Eighteen cars signed into the CLS pits for the race at the track located on the Ventura County...more

HAYS, KANS. (July 14, 2019) – Continuing on his hot streak, Golden, Colorado’s Jake Bubak took the lead with eight laps left of the 30 lap feature and went on to claim the eleventh annual “Wheatshocker Nationals” as the Lucas Oil POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing wrapped up the two-race weekend Sunday night atop the excellently prepared Rolling Plains Motor Speedway in Hays, Kansas. Luke Cranston and Jed Werner started on the front row for the thirty-lap...more

HAYS, KANS. (July 13, 2019) – Jeremy Huish passed race long leader Ty Williams just past the races midway point, then held off a late race charge from Jake Bubak to claim his first-career Lucas Oil POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing as the tour opened the 11th annual Wheatshocker Nationals at Rolling Plains Motor Speedway in Hays, Kansas on Saturday night. Jeremy Huish and Ty Williams started on the front row for the twenty-five-lap feature with Williams...more

MADERA, CALIF. (July 13, 2019) - The POWRi Lucas Oil Bay Cities Racing Association (BCRA) mighty midgets roared into Madera Speedway on Saturday night July 13 2019 for the 17th annual Gerhardt Classic and after an intense 50-lap feature the 2018 POWRi BCRA champion, 14-year old Jesse Love came away with a hard-fought victory. Love laid down the fastest lap in time trials with a blazing lap of 13.907 seconds around the paved 1/3-mile in the 51 Fifty Energy Drink sponsored Van Dyne Engineering...more