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Inaugural POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprints Season Opener Indianapolis, IN – Saturday, April 1 will kick off the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprints season with the inaugural race at Fayette County Speedway in Brownstown, Illinois. The much anticipated race will pay $2,000 to win and $200 to start. Twelve races make up the 2017 POWRi WAR East schedule which will award the top five in points at the end of the season with a point fund listed below. WAR East Point...more

POWRI LUCAS OIL WAR SPRINTS HEAD TO I-35 SPEEDWAY Indianapolis, IN – Saturday, April 15th the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint Cars will return to the familiar surface of I-35 Speedway in Winston, Missouri for the first time in 2017. The POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints competed at I-35 Speedway six times last year. October 8 was the 2016 WAR season finale where Korey Weyant took home the trophy, but Clinton Boyles took home the championship. Terry Babb, Chris Parkinson, Boyles, and Weyant all visited...more

Grain Valley, MO (April 22, 2017) - After showing solid speed early on in 2017 and being plagued with some bad luck, Quinton Benson picked up his first career POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints win Saturday at Valley Speedway. Wyatt Burks led the first two laps from the pole. On lap three, Burks slipped high in turn two allowing Benson to get a run down the backstretch to take over the top spot. Benson would hold off many challenges from Dylan Kadous over the last part of the race as drivers swapped...more

GRANT GRABS LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY WIN Wheatland, MO (May 6, 2017) - In a race that went twenty-five non stop laps and saw all twenty two starters complete the A-Main, Justin Grant picked up a win on Saturday night with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints at Lucas Oil Speedway. Korey Weyant, Zach Daum, Clinton Boyles, and eighteenth starting Brandon Mattox rounded out the top five. Grant, who has been one of open wheel racing's hottest drivers in 2017, moved from his outside starting spot into the...more

BOYLES CLIMBS TO THE TOP AT LAKESIDE Kansas City, KS (May 11, 2017) - After picking up a win during his rookie season with the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints last May at Lakeside Speedway, Clinton Boyles won for the second year in a row on Thursday night at the same racetrack. Cody Baker edged Isaac Chapple to lead lap one in the twenty lap feature. Baker set a torrid pace as he ran the high side of the 4/10 mile. Behind him, Boyles moved his way forward from his fifth starting position. Baker...more

Indianapolis, IN - A two-day weekend of racing is up next for the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints. First heading to US 36 Raceway in Osborn, Missouri on Friday, May 19 for the first time since 2012, followed by their second showing this season at I-35 Speedway in Winston, Missouri on Saturday, May 20. Austin Alumbaugh won the last WAR event at US 36 Raceway in 2012 in the Rick Smith owned number 26 machine. Many fresh faces will attempt to snag a WAR victory there this Friday. Korey Weyant picked...more

Indianapolis, IN - The POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprint League is set to join the POWRi Illinois SPEED Week roster for the first time ever. The WAR East Sprints will compete in three of the total five nights of SPEED Week. Please find WAR payout details below. POWRi kicks off the first of a five-night series known as Illinois Speed Week on Wednesday, May 31 at the Dirt Oval at Route 66 in Joliet, Illinois featuring the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprints plus National and D-II Midgets. Thursday,...more

Winston, MO (June 10, 2017) - Taking advantage of polesitter Slater Helt's misfortune, Wyatt Burks picked up his first POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints win of 2017 Saturday night at I-35 Speedway in Winston, Missouri. On the original start, Helt moved from the bottom and beat second-starting Korey Weyant down the backstretch to take over the lead. Just as Helt moved past the flagstand, the yellow flag came out for Quinton Benson, who got too high in turns three and four and came to a stop. Also...more

Indianapolis, IN - The POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint League will be competing at the "Diamond of Dirt Tracks" Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri this Saturday, June 17. It is the second showing for the WAR Sprints in Wheatland this year. Justin Grant was victorious at Lucas Oil Speedway in May for the last WAR event there. Since the inception of WAR in 2012, there have been fourteen different WAR drivers in victory lane at Lucas Oil Speedway. Dustin Morgan, Casey Shuman, Chris Parkinson,...more

Indianapolis, IN - Saturday, June 24 marks the first visit to Fayette County Speedway in Brownstown, Illinois for the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR East Sprint Cars in the league's history paying $2,000 to win and $200 to start. Rookie of the Year hopeful, Slater Helt currently leads WAR East points heading into this weekend's event. Korey Weyant trails close behind with only an eight point gap between them. Terry Babb sits third in points followed by Mario Clouser (4th), Steve Thomas (5th), Mitchell...more