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Mark McMahill Maneuvers POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association Spoon River Win

Mark McMahill Maneuvers POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association Spoon River Win

Belleville, IL. (6/24/2023) Returning to the familiar running grounds of sanctioned seasonal competition, the POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association would witness Mark McMahill return to form and lead all laps around Spoon River Speedway to earn the feature win and his second victory in the 2023 racing season.

Starting the third night of POWRi sanctioning at Spoon River Speedway, the IMRA would find McMahill notch the heat racing win as well as gain the pole-starting grid for the fifteen-lap feature event.

Green flag feature racing would find Mark McMahill defending the front of the field for the duration of the feature laps with fourth-starting Tracy Hull earning a solid runner-up showing.

Staying contiguously close to the leaders, Rueben Haslett would finish third as Shane Morgan placed fourth with Russell Johnson rounding out the top five feature finishers for the POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association at Spoon River Speedway.

POWRi IMRA | Spoon River Speedway | 6/24/23:
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 57-Mark McMahill[1]; 2. 24-Tracy Hull[4]; 3. H20-Reuben Haslett[2]; 4. 15M-Shane Morgan[3]; 5. 0-Russell Johnston[5]; 6. 15M2-Bobby Morgan[7]; 7. (DNS) 54-Riley Scott.

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 57-Mark McMahill[7]; 2. H20-Reuben Haslett[2]; 3. 15M-Shane Morgan[6]; 4. 24-Tracy Hull[5]; 5. 0-Russell Johnston[1]; 6. 54-Riley Scott[4]; 7. 15M2-Bobby Morgan[3].

Next up the newly sanctioned POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association will see action at a return to Spoon River Speedway in Canton Illinois on July 15th.

POWRi Illinois Midget Racing Association 2023 Remaining Schedule:
7/15/2023 | Spoon River Speedway | Lewistown, IL
7/21/2023 | Champaign County Speedway | Urbana, IL | Champaign County Fair
8/12/2023 | Spoon River Speedway | Lewistown, IL
8/26/2023 | Spoon River Speedway | Lewistown, IL
9/16/2023 | Spoon River Speedway | Lewistown, IL | Knowles/Hull/Trone Memorial
9/22/2023 | Lee County Speedway | Donnellson, IA
9/23/2023 | Lee County Speedway | Donnellson, IA | Season Championship

Future updates will be posted as confirmed. Rules and guidelines for each division are available online at http://www.powri.com/info under the corresponding class. All participants must be POWRi licensed members to receive benefits which include POWRi Member Participant Accident Insurance, annual point fund money, and contingency awards. POWRi Memberships are available online at https://www.myracepass.com/sanctions/1011/registrations/6909.

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