What has happened to POWRi?

openwheelfan1 · 7/12/24, 7:44 PM

Paducah International Raceway scheduled a two night POWRi winged and non winged show tonight and tomorrow night. This event has been on the schedule since the POWRi schedules were announced. $5,000 to win the winged show Friday night and $7,000 to win Saturday night. 11 Winged sprints cars checked in and 5 non winged sprint cars checked. SAD! POWRi cancelled tonight’s show due to “weather concerns”.

Pitdad · 7/12/24, 8:55 PM

Ha ha!

So, so Kenny.

jdull99 · 7/12/24, 9:20 PM

Try it next year if gas goes back to under $2/g...

captrat · 7/13/24, 2:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jdull99

Try it next year if gas goes back to under $2/g...

The petroleum producers, cartels commodities market and greed will not allow that to happen.

jdull99 · 7/13/24, 3:29 PM

Time will tell.

openwheelfan1 · 7/13/24, 5:05 PM

Well, despite the fact that it is a beautiful, sunny 90° day here in Western KY, POWRi issued a notice that tonight’s 2nd night of open wheel racing at Paducah International Raceway was cancelled due to “weather”. I feel sorry for all the flack the promoter at Paducah is going to have to incur for this debacle!

Dougherty20 · 7/13/24, 6:03 PM

We thought about running down there, then found out only 2,000 to win 200 to start. That's same or worse than most Indiana local show payouts

oppweld · 7/14/24, 9:01 AM

WAR is on lifesupport. Only 8 cars for the LOR doubleheader last weekend. With the addition Powri wing 410s the car counts have dropped.MWRA has also taken a portion of the former regulars.The last big hurrah for this series will be the Hockett Memorial in September. I would love to see a new BOSS like series than ran Nebraska,Iowa,Illinois,and Missouri.I won't hold my breath though.

kendirt · 7/14/24, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by oppweld

WAR is on lifesupport.

I wish Shumans had kept WAR long enough to see what it could have grown into.

BrentTFunk · 7/15/24, 9:07 AM

This is a perfect example of over saturation in the wing cars. If I was going to create a successful series,I would want at least 20 teams that are looking for a place to race. You can't just keep robbing them from other tracks and series. As for the WAR guys. For a series that has always been a working mans series, that is a long way to ask those guys to travel. The car counts were pretty close to what I would have expected.

7/12/24, 7:44 PM	#1 What has happened to POWRi?
openwheelfan1 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,391	Paducah International Raceway scheduled a two night POWRi winged and non winged show tonight and tomorrow night. This event has been on the schedule since the POWRi schedules were announced. $5,000 to win the winged show Friday night and $7,000 to win Saturday night. 11 Winged sprints cars checked in and 5 non winged sprint cars checked. SAD! POWRi cancelled tonight’s show due to “weather concerns”.