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Belleville, IL. (7/6/2020) The Missouri State Fair Championship at the historic half-mile in Sedalia, Missouri, scheduled for Sunday, August 23rd, has been confirmed by Missouri State Fair Board and POWRi officials. Customarily marking the closing events of the Missouri State Fair, the racing action at the fairgrounds makes the rare occurrence for drivers the compete around the iconic Sedalia Speedway. Last year in traditional sprint car competition Braydon Cromwell #4 would cowboy-up,...more

Belleville, IL. (7/6/2020) Quickly becoming a fan-favorite division at “The Lake” the POWRi RaceSaver 305 Sprint’s continue to alternate weekends of competition as Saturday, July, 11th marks their third feature for 2020 at the fast one-third mile oval on the outskirts of Eldon, Mo. Weekly racing resumes Saturday, July 11th at Lake Ozark Speedway with Missouri State Penitentiary Night at the Races. In the eighth event of the shortened season, feature racing has been highly contested nearly...more

Belleville, IL. (07/06/2020) Humboldt Speedway welcomes back POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League along with the POWRi Lucas Oil West Midget League. Friday, July 10th will be both POWRi Midget Leagues only second visit to Humboldt Speedway. Both POWRi Midget Leagues will go head to head, to start off a three-day race weekend. Starting off night one at the 3/8 mile, high-banked clay oval, Humboldt Speedway in Humboldt, Kansas. Followed by a two day show at the famous Valley Speedway in Grain...more

Belleville, IL. (07/06/2020) This weekend the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, POWRi Engler Machine & Tool 600cc Outlaw Micros, and the POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprints will be on tap for a two day show at the famous Valley Speedway in Grain Valley, Missouri. The inaugural appearance for the Leagues, Valley Speedway presents the opportunity for two nights of back-to-back racing. Saturday, July 11th and Sunday, July 12th all three POWRi Series will be competing for the Thunder in the...more

Hays, KS (July 6, 2020) Drivers in the POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing are busy gearing up for 12th Annual Wheat-Shocker Nationals at Rolling Plains Motor Speedway in Hays, Kansas on July 11th and 12th. The Wheat-Shocker Nationals at RPM Speedway remains a long-standing staple on the POWRi URSS schedule since 2008, many years continuing as the highest paying race to win in 305 sprint competition as well as serving as a sort of proving grounds...more

BELLEVILLE, Kansas (July 8, 2020) - The POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing is in full preparation for the Belleville Nationals at the historic Belleville High Banks. The event is slated to take place on Friday, July 31st, and Saturday, August 1st at the famed ½-mile dirt track. A purse of more than $65,000 has been set, and drivers have a little extra incentive with an added money to many non-qualifiers and a bounty to beat the two-time and defending...more

Belleville, IL. (7/9/2020) Due to ongoing coronavirus constraints, Performance Open Wheel Racing Incorporated have updated league schedules through August in effort to adhere to ongoing public gathering restrictions and special limitations on a state by state basis. POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League scheduling changes include the cancelation of Jacksonville Speedway-July 24th, Tri-City Speedway-July 25th, and Belle-Clair Speedway-July 31st, August 21st, September 5th, September 6th, and...more

Humboldt, KS (7/11/2020) – In what was an action-packed 30-lap feature event at Humboldt Speedway between the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget Leagues, Michael “Buddy” Kofoid claimed the checkers over Kaylee Bryson and Daison Pursley for a Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports podium sweep. Kofoid’s Humboldt Speedway victory is his fourth POWRi win of 2020. Sharing the front row with Zach Daum, polesitter Chance Morton pounced to an early lead over Daum and Kaylee Bryson. But before...more

Knoxville, IA.(07/10/2020) Fifty-three traditional sprint car competitors would converge on the “Sprint Car Capital of the World” for the first night of the second annual Brandt Agricultural CornBelt Nationals held on Friday night. With a clean sweep of leading all twenty-five feature laps, Tyler Courtney would win the evening of co-sanctioned racing with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League and USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championship. Wyatt Burks #11w and Riley Kreisel #91 would pace...more

Grain Valley, MO – In what was an eventful POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget League feature event at Valley Speedway, Ace McCarthy had to fend off several challenges as he wired the field for his second career POWRi victory. McCarthy’s Valley Speedway victory was his first driving for Dave Mac Motorsports. Taking the early lead from polesitter Zach Daum after going three-wide into turn three, McCarthy took control of the 30-lap feature event coming out of turn four to lead lap one. ...more