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A record setting 43 entries of Powri Lightning Sprints would take to the fast Lake Ozark Speedway, with side by side action throughout the first night of the Powri Lightning Sprint Nationals. Drivers from nine states and even Canada would pack the pits. After five hard fought heat races, four fast-paced qualifiers, and a pair of edge-of-the-seat B-Feature battles, the feature field of 24 was set for 25 trips around “The Lake”. Fresh off earning the night’s High Point Qualifier Award, pole...more

JACKSONVILLE, ILL. (October 6, 2019) – Going wire-to-wire in Saturday’s 30-lap main event at Jacksonville Speedway, Tanner Carrick of Lincoln, Calif. was just unstoppable in the green-to-checkered run. Aboard the Keith Kunz-Curb Agajanian Motorsports, Walker Filters, Bullet/Toyota No. 71K, Carrick won his third career POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League feature and the first of his 2019 campaign. Surviving a pair of rain delays before the feature hit the track, it was a constant guessing...more

With a moody Mother Nature looming Lake Ozark Speedway would go above and beyond to see the field of 37 Powri Lightning Wing National take to the track and prove themselves with blistering lap times and side by side racing action. Even after an extended intermission due to irregular rain showers drivers from eleven states and Canada would wage racing war through four Heat’s, three Qualifiers, and a pair of B-Features to set the 24 car field for 25 trips around “The Lake”. Night number one’s...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (October 9, 2019) – With a significant forecast of impending rain set to hit the area, track and series officials have made the call to switch the POWRi National Midgets and POWRi Outlaw Micros “Charlene Meents Memorial” at Belle-Clair Speedway from the originally scheduled Friday date and pushed it back to now race on Sunday evening. Saturday’s program at Southern Illinois Raceway is unaffected and will run as planned. “We’ve been watching the weather all week and with as...more

JACKSONVILLE, ILL. (October 10, 2019) – Scotty Milan of Fort Collins, Colo. was not to be denied on Saturday night at Jacksonville Speedway, leading all 20 laps of the main event and cashing in for his first-career victory with the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. Earning Bell Helmets #HighPointMan honors, Milan put his No. 97 on the pole position thanks to a masterful seventh-to-first drive to win the opening Lightning Wings heat race. Chad Elliott, who broke through for his...more

MARION, ILL. (October 12, 2019) – For the fourth consecutive race, a first-time winner emerged in victory lane with the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. Leading all 20 laps at Southern Illinois Raceway, BJ Gatewood of Caruthersville, Mo. had it far from easy on Saturday night as he was forced to fend off a series of attacks from Gunner Ramey, Luke Veradi and Jordan Howell to park his No. 88 on the front stretch. Leading from start-to-finish in Saturday’s 20-lapper, Gatewood saw...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (October 13, 2019) – Leading all 20 laps on Sunday night, Joe B. Miller of Millersville, Mo. dominated at Belle-Clair Speedway and earned his 37th career POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League victory. Earning Bell Helmets #HighPointMan honors with a seventh-to-second heat race, Miller slotted his Ellis Race Cars No. 51B on the pole position for the 20-lap Charlene Meents Memorial main event. Driving away in dominant fashion, Miller had checked out before the first...more

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (October 15, 2019) – In the penultimate weekend of the 2019 season, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets heads for I-30 Speedway this Saturday, October 19 for their first appearance in league history at the Little Rock, Ark. facility. Co-sanctioned alongside the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midgets, the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micros will also be in action. Only three races remain this year and all focus remains on the nail-biting battle for the POWRi National Midget...more

LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (October 19, 2019) – For the second time in the month of October, Scotty Milan has found himself victorious with the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micro League. He broke through for his first-career win at Jacksonville (Ill.) Speedway on October 5, and on Saturday night at I-30 (Ark.) Speedway, the Fort Collins, Colo. Driver backed it up with a wire-to-wire triumph for his second-career win. Taking the green flag from the outside pole, Milan immediately jumped ahead of...more

(Torrance, CA, October 20, 2019) Fans of the POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series will get an early Halloween treat this Saturday night, October 26th, at the Ventura Raceway. In addition to the regular show, the CLS will stage an extra main event to make up for the race that was postponed due to the power outage at the track on October 5th. After the heat races on Saturday, the CLS drivers will run the postponed main event. Only drivers who participated on October 5th are...more