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Belleville, IL (08/11/2020) Hitting the ground running in their inaugural season under the POWRi sanctioning banner the POWRi Lucas Oil Minn-Kota Lightning Sprint Series has completed fifteen close finishing events so far in this unprecedented 2020 racing season. Heading into the sixteenth race this year for the MKLS, many storylines have surfaced adding to the excitement on Friday, August 14th at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Witnessing four different feature winners...more

Belleville, IL. (08/14/2020) Back by popular demand, a Border WAR will once again wage on the racing surfaces of Illinois and Missouri. Back to back nights of action on Friday, August 28th and Saturday, August 29th with the POWRi Lucas Oil Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League will see competition from Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Illinois first, then the WAR head’s to Valley Speedway in Grain Valley, Missouri to complete the battle. With both Friday and Saturday’s feature event’s paying...more

Belleville, IL. (08/14/2020) Originally scheduled for the weekend of September 5th and 6th the 16th Annual Charlene Meents Memorial will now be held at Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa, Oklahoma as part of the POWRi Season Championship Weekend on October 16th and 17th. Included into the POWRi Season Championship, the Meents Memorial will now feature several different racing leagues to add to the overall exciting weekend event. POWRi classes scheduled to compete at Creek County Speedway on...more

OBERLIN, Kansas (August 14, 2020) – The POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing headed to the western-Kansas 3/8-mile of Oberlin Speedway on Friday for night one of the Bob Salem Memorial. With 31 cars on hand, Eagle, Nebraska’s Tyler Drueke was dominant throughout the night’s events, sweeping the heat race win and the 25-lap feature event. Tyler Drueke, Jake Martens, Zach Blurton, and JD Johnson all claimed heat race wins on Friday night. Two...more

Belleville, IL. (08/16/2020) Jonathan Beason conquered the stand alone show at Creek County Speedway with the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League. 25 cars went to battle, and Beason found himself coming out on top in victory lane. Beason took command of the race lead early, using every advantage he could with starting on the front row. Alex Sewell started on the outside of Beason and they both lead the field to green. Beason grabbed the bottom side and tried to make it stick, meanwhile the...more

OBERLIN, Kansas (August 15, 2020) – Twenty-seven cars were on hand with POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series presented by the Mel Hambelton Ford Racing for the final night of the Bob Salem Memorial. Drivers took to the 3/8-mile dirt track on Saturday night and Quinter, Kansas’ Zach Blurton swept the night. Heat races were won by Zach Blurton, Monty Ferriera, Koby Walters, and JD Johnson. A 12-lap B-Feature transferred eight to the feature event: Kyler Johnson, Todd Plemons, Willie Wynn,...more

Belleville, IL. (08/17/2020) Battling on a smooth-slick quarter-mile racing surface on a hot and hazy Fort Morgan Colorado night, the POWRi Lucas Oil Rocky Mountain Lightning Sprints would tackle the tricky I-76 Speedway in wingless competition. Picking up his fifth win on the 2020 RMLS season, Johnny Boos continues to ride the wave of successes this year while tightening the gap in the overall championship standings. Running without the downforce of a wing for the fifth time this year the...more

Belleville, IL (08/17/2020) Competing in their fourth event of the 2020 racing season the POWRi Lucas Oil New Mexico Racing Association would once again head to their home-turf running grounds of Sandia Speedway in Albuquerque, New Mexico with side-by-side action throughout the fierce pack of 360 non-wing sprinters. After twenty-five laps of high-octane and battles for nearly every position, Don Grable would wire the field by leading every lap on his way to the night’s top spot. Pacing the...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

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