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(Torrance, CA, April 11, 2019) Kingsburg, California’s Doug Nunes waited till near the end to take the lead and then run away from the field for his second POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car main event victory of the season last Saturday night at the Barona Speedway. Forty-two-year-old Nunes started the night by timing in second quick in the 28-car field with a lap of 14.558. That was just a tick behind the fast time of 14.545 set by 16-year-old Eric Greco of Lakewood. ...more

Grain Valley: Wesley Smith was once again the class of the field at Valley Speedway in POWRi Valley Outlaw Midgets Friday night. The first race of 2019 for the series was Smith’s 17th victory in the KC Metro Midgets since 2015, and followed his victory last week at Valley in the POWRi Valley Sprints driving the Helm #12. Under the Friday night lights of Valley Speedway Smith would take the first heat of the evening as well driving the WSR Racing #44. And in the feature would hold of Luke...more

(Torrance, CA, April 16, 2019) Current point leader Jarrett Kramer and two-time 2019 winner Doug Nunes lead the POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series into the Bakersfield Speedway this Saturday Night, April 20th. The race will be round #4 of the 2019 championship season. Spectator gates at “The West’s Fastest 1/3 of a Mile High Banked Clay Oval” will open at 5:00 P.M. and the first race will be at 7:00. Saturday’s race will be the second of the year for the CLS at...more

Pocahontas, Illinois, chauffeur Zach Daum was victorious Friday night at Valley Speedway. But it wasn’t racing a POWRi Midget. Instead Daum the multiple-time POWRi Midget Champ would pace the field winning a wire to wire showdown over Nixa driver Wesley Smith racing in the POWRi Valley Outlaw Sprint Series. The victory however was no cakewalk for the veteran driver as Smith, a two-time winner already at Valley this season winning in sprints and midgets hounded Daum throughout the Feature in...more

The POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprints opened our season at I-35 Speedway on Sat night. A BIG thank you goes out to our sponsors for 2019, Racin’ Boys, Oskvig Accounting and Rod End Supply. We had 5 Rookies for our first nite of the new season. Heat 1 1st 01 Bobby Layne KC, MO 2nd 49B Kenny Bowers Olathe, KS (R) 3rd 5 Tyler Murry Dover, MO 4th z8 Tim Davis KC, MO (R) 5th 88 Mike Tindell...

After a successful two-night weekend to open the season and the month of April, the POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing is set to open the month of May with a huge event as the “Rebels” head to Lincoln County Raceway in North Platte, Nebraska on Saturday night, May 4, for the fourth annual “Ron Williams/Dick Snoose Myers Memorial.” This one-night event will pay $1500 to win while just starting the night’s feature finale will pay $200. Also, fast...more

Belleville, IL – Beginning Friday, April 26th, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League has a big weekend on tap. Visiting three, fan-thrilling, action-packed tracks, the National Midgets begin the weekend at Belle-Clair Speedway, head to Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 on Saturday, and then round out the weekend on Sunday at Jacksonville Speedway. Friday, April 26th, the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League will invade Belle-Clair Speedway for the first showing there of 2019, and...more

TULSA, OKLA. (April 24, 2019) – A thrilling doubleheader in “The 918” awaits the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League heading into their first standalone weekend of the 2019 season. Scheduled for Midget Mayhem on April 26 and April 27, the West Midgets will encounter Sapulpa’s Creek County Speedway on Friday night followed by a trip to Tulsa’s Port City Raceway on Saturday. With four co-sanctioned shows along with the POWRi National Midgets and one rain out at I-44 Riverside Speedway in the...more

Belleville, IL – Tomorrow’s 28th Annual Arnie Knepper Memorial featuring action from the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool 600cc Outlaw Micro League has been cancelled due to the continuous rainfall over the past three days. POWRi and Belle-Clair Speedway officials are actively seeking a date for rescheduling. “The rain gauge at the track shows three inches of rain,” commented Brian Thompson of Belle-Clair Speedway. This spring hasn’t been kind to...more

(Torrance, CA, April 24, 2019) Five-time series champion Bobby Michnowicz etched his name onto the victory ledger for the first time in 2019 when he won the POWRi Lucas Oil California Lightning Sprint Car Series main event in a thrilling finish last Saturday night at the Bakersfield Speedway. The victory was Michnowicz first at the Kern County clay oval since 2017. Twenty-seven CLS cars took time trials at the longtime track that is referred to as “The West’s Fastest 1/3 Mile High Banked...more