BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Thomas Meseraull would ride the high line of Macon Speedway to perfection in capturing his sixth career victory with the POWRi National Midget League feature event in Night Three of the 11th Annual POWRi Illinois SPEEDWeek in an instant classic for the ages.
Early on-track competition with 29 entries in the POWRi National Midget League would see Meseraull start the action off with a quick hot-lap time of 10.784-second lap as Cannon McIntosh, Steven Snyder Jr., Daniel Adler and Meseraull each would earn heat racing wins as well as Karter Sarff earning the semi-feature race.
Setting the main event field would find high-point qualifier Meseraull and front-row counterpart Gavin Miller each competing for positions as the green flag flew with Meseraull gaining the slight advantage on the opening lap over Miller as the top pair would separate themselves from the pack.
With Meseraull pacing the field out front for most of the feature, the final 10 laps would be well worth the price of admission as McIntosh started to reel in the leading pack with caution flags keeping the field bunched together in the tight-quartered corners.
Allowing the chose cone to come into play, McIntosh would overtake Meseraull for the prized position using a daring maneuver off the double-file restart. While leading for five laps, McIntosh would fend off a flurry of overtaking attempts, yet Meseraull would find the winning maneuver as the laps started to wane.
Holding the first place spot after the final restart, Meseraull would clinch his sixth career POWRi National Midget League feature victory after leading twenty-five of the thirty revolutions around a finely tuned Macon Speedway.
“When the track is this good and it’s up on the top, it’s going to be a slide-or-die kind of night, the restart I thought Cannon jumped me on the first one so after he got by me it was hold on afterward.” said an elated Meseraull.
Leading late while also staying in the mix to win, McIntosh would place a solid second as Brody Wake would round out the podium placements. Hunting for the front would witness Jade Avedisian finish fourth as Andrew Felker would round out the top-five.
Other Feature Results
The Non-Wing POWRi Micro Sprint Feature Presented by Bailey Chassis saw Tyler Kuykendall outlast the 16-car field for 20 laps.
The stock car racing on tap for the night saw two terrific finishes as Tim Luttrell won his second feature of the season with a late pass on leader Jeremy Nichols.
In the Street Stock class, Bobby Beiler edged Terry Reed and Rudy Zaragoza for the feature finish.
Feature Finish (30 Laps)
1. 7X-Thomas Meseraull[1]; 2. 08-Cannon McIntosh[5]; 3. 08K-Brody Wake[8]; 4. 71-Jade Avedisian[6]; 5. 11A-Andrew Felker[7]; 6. 21K-Karter Sarff[17]; 7. 26-Chance Crum[18]; 8. 50-Daniel Adler[4]; 9. 40X-Steven Snyder Jr[3]; 10. 26R-Corbin Rueschenberg[19]; 11. 97K-Cooper Williams[11]; 12. 71E-Mariah Ede[14]; 13. 97-Gavin Miller[2]; 14. 91-Zach Daum[9]; 15. 56-Mitchell Davis[23]; 16. 11-Clinton Boyles[12]; 17. 44-Branigan Roark[15]; 18. 1K-Brayton Lynch[10]; 19. 13-Elijah Gile[20]; 20. 59-Laci Ferno[22]; 21. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[13]; 22. 25K-Taylor Reimer[21]; 23. 58-Daniel Whitley[16].