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JACKSONVILLE, ILL. (October 1, 2019) – Slated for back-to-back appearances this Friday, October 4 and Saturday, October 5, Jacksonville Speedway is the place to race this weekend as the home stretch of the 2019 campaign begins for the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midgets and the POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Outlaw Micros. As long as Mother Nature cooperates, Saturday’s showing will mark the 40th all-time race at the Jacksonville, Ill. quarter mile for the POWRi National Midgets, tying it with Macon...more

Fourteen drivers took the challenge on Saturday, September 28th to face a cold and blustery night at the El Paso County Raceway. This was the largest field of the year for the Warrior Sprint Series, with drivers from two states making the trip to take home the paycheck. Heat races were won by Zac Taylor of Green River, Wyoming and Brett Ream of Colorado Springs, Colorado. But it was Coby Pearce of Golden, Colorado taking the high points honor and he rolled a four for the invert, placing...more

JACKSONVILLE, ILL. (October 5, 2019) – Logan Seavey thought he saw the window for a win shutting when Rico Abreu slid by on the 12th circuit in Friday’s POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget feature at Jacksonville Speedway. However, a late rally brought Seavey right back to Abreu’s bumper before a perfect diamond maneuver off turn two sealed the race’s fate when the No. 67 shot by the No. 97 with only four laps left. A historical win on several levels, Seavey’s Friday night triumph was the scene of...more

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

MARION, ILL. (October 12, 2019) – Saturday’s Southern Illinois Shootout was a wild one from start-to-finish for the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League. Encountering the 1/8th-mile Southern Illinois Raceway for the first and only time this season, drivers faced a rough and rowdy surface with character aplenty. Four different leaders stood at the front, some slipped back and some stormed forward, but through all of the chaos and carnage it was Jake Neuman and Team Ripper capitalizing late...more

BELLEVILLE, ILL. (October 13, 2019) – For Logan Seavey, the 2019 POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League season has been one for the ages. After all, his victory on Sunday night at Belle-Clair Speedway sealed the deal on a year-long pursuit of breaking one of POWRi’s most noteworthy records. With his 12th win aboard the Keith Kunz Motorsports, Mobil 1, Bullet/Toyota No. 67, Seavey beat Christopher Bell’s 2014 campaign of 11 wins and established the NEW RECORD for the winningest single season in...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