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Belleville, IL. (10/04/2020) The POWRi Lucas Oil New Mexico Motor Racing Association will once again grace the friendly confines of their home-racing facility of Sandia Speedway on Saturday, October 10th for the crowd-pleasing, high-flying, Sprint Car Stampede. Top non-wing 360 sprinters from near and far will flock to the premier three-eighths-mile dirt-oval in Bernalillo County New Mexico for side-by-side racing action and bragging right honors of winning. Limited in events in 2020, the...more

Belleville, IL. (10/05/2020) Enduring the delayed and severely curbed 2020 racing season, the POWRi Lucas Oil Rocky Mountain Lightning Sprints would not be detoured with outstanding on-track accomplishments aplenty. After close on-track racing all year and finalization of the season points championship, top-notch open-wheel journeyman Chris Crowder would emerge as the season titleholder. Visiting four unique Colorado tracks throughout the season with the Rocky Mountain Lightning Sprinters,...more

Belleville, IL. (10/05/2020) Visiting their home racing surface of Barona Speedway for the sixth time this season the POWRi Lucas Oil Southwest Lightning Sprints would not disappoint with terrific racing throughout the night. Throwing out the challenge to the Western Midget Racing Group the POWRi SWLS’s would take the wings off and offer fans a unique twist on the competition. Heavily contested on all circuits, Brent Sexton would earn the edge in the final stages and claiming his first...more

Belleville, IL. (10/05/2020) Hard Eight Racing, in collaboration with The Donnie Ray Crawford Legacy Foundation, Port City Raceway, and Performance Open Wheel Racing Incorporated, is excited to present the Inaugural Donnie Ray Crawford Sooner-State 55 on Thursday, October 15th. Featuring the outstanding racing of the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget Leagues; Port City Raceway, in Tulsa Oklahoma, will host all the excitement of a National Midget event but with a twist. Fifty-Five laps...more

Belleville, IL. (10/05/2020) Due to unforeseen circumstances regarding the POWRi Season Championship on October 16-17, originally scheduled at Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa Oklahoma, POWRi officials have moved the hosting venue to I-44 Riverside Speedway in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Classes scheduled to compete will be the POWRi Lucas Oil National and West Midget Leagues as well as the POWRi Engler Machine and Tool Outlaw 600cc Micros. Unfortunately, the POWRi Lucas Oil Wingless Auto...more

Belleville, IL. (10/06/2020) Battling Mother Nature the whole evening of Friday, September 11th for the annual Herb Barlow Memorial resulted in completely rescheduling the entire event for Friday, October 9th. POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League, POWRi Engler Machine & Tool Micro Sprint League, and MOWA Sprints will all be in attendance for a completely new racing program. Before the heavy rainfall on September 11th the drivers and fans were in for a good show, with 30 POWRi Lucas Oil...more

Belleville, IL. (10/06/2020) Witnessing seven separate feature winners this racing season, the POWRi Lucas Oil Midwest Lightning Sprints would see a trend of variation up front set the tone over throughout their seventeen various race dates. Visiting six different tracks offering plenty of parity for drivers to test their talents and with the final points tallied on the season, series power-house Stanley Kreisel would earn his first POWRi MLS championship. Winning the POWRi Lucas Oil Midwest...more

Belleville, IL. (10/06/2020) Overcoming adversaries all year ranging from a late season start to a premature yearly end, the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League would be resilient and sensational in 2020. After seventeen action-packed feature event’s “The Champ is Here”, will ring true once again as Warsaw, Missouri wheelman Riley Kreisel enters rarified air by becoming the first-ever three-time champion within the POWRi Lucas Oil Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League. Capturing a league-leading...more

SALINA, Kansas (October 6, 2020) – The POWRi Lucas Oil United Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing is set to take on the final race of the season this Friday, October 9th. Drivers will head to the 3/8-mile high banks of Salina Motor Speedway in Salina, Kansas to complete the season and wrap up the points championship. Three-time and defending champion, Zach Blurton, has edged ahead with the points lead by 154 points over JD Johnson. A 104-point gap separates Johnson,...more

Jacksonville, IL. (10/09/2020) Thomas Meseraull out of San Jose, CA. took his No. 7X SR-11 to POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget League victory lane for the first time this season at Jacksonville Speedway in Jacksonville, IL. Taking the green flag from the pole position and never looking back, TMEZ lead all 30 laps to conquer the 21-car field and take himself to victory lane. Meseraull and Karter Sarff sat side by side on the front row to bring the field to green. Chase McDermand and Jake Neuman...more