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Story By: JORDAN DELUCIA / XTREME OUTLAW MIDGET SERIES – CONCORD, NC – The second full-length national tour schedule for the Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series presented by Toyota is complete.
With a brand-new champion hoisting the trophy, a record number of regular racers and outsiders going to Victory Lane, 2024 was a season filled with growth and storylines throughout.
TALE OF THE TROPHY — In clinching his first national Midget championship, Cannon McIntosh became the first driver from the state of Oklahoma to win the Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series points title.
McIntosh, of Bixby, OK, becomes the third different champion of the Xtreme Outlaw Series from the third different state after Zach Daum (Pocahontas, IL) hoisted the trophy in 2022, and Jade Avedisian (Clovis, CA) became Midget racing’s first female national champion in 2023. At 21 years of age, McIntosh is now the second-youngest Series champion behind Avedisian (17) and ahead of Daum (30).
His first title comes as the 18th in the national Midget realm for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, and with Avedisian’s 2023 championship, team co-owners Keith Kunz and Pete Willoughby are now the first in Xtreme Outlaw Series history to top the points standings in back-to-back years.
PLENTIFUL PARTICIPATION — A new Series record 10 drivers held their full-time status throughout the 2024 season, which included McIntosh, Ryan Timms, Chase McDermand, Ashton Torgerson, Daum, Hayden Reinbold, Trevor Cline, Gavin Miller, Tyler Edwards and Jayden Clay.
Of these drivers, four were national Midget series rookies. Torgerson had the top rookie performance with three wins, six top-fives and 17 top-10s, while Cline was second-best with one podium and nine top-fives. Edwards and Clay represented the Mounce/Stout Motorsports rookie duo with points finishes of ninth and 12th, respectively.
McIntosh, Timms, McDermand, Reinbold and Cline all started each of the 22 contested Feature events. Over those 22 races, full-time drivers accounted for 16 Feature wins, or 72.7 percent. This is slightly under the win percentage of 75.9 recorded by the seven full-time drivers of the 2023 season.
FIRST-TIME WINNERS — Three drivers graced Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series Victory Lane for the first time in their careers this season.
Thomas Meseraull, of San Jose, CA, punched through during the season opener in March at the Southern Illinois Center. That victory made him the first and only driver in history to win on both the Midget and Non-Wing Sprint Car side of the Xtreme Outlaw Series after first winning at Volusia Speedway Park in February 2022.
Torgerson won three times with Xtreme in 2024, the first of which came in April at Farmer City Raceway where he led all but one lap of the main event. His second win came in back-to-back fashion, winning the next Series event at Humboldt Speedway in Kansas four weeks later, which he later capped-off with his third win of the season at Coles County Speedway in Illinois on May 31.
Nineteen-year-old Kale Drake, of Collinsville, OK, got his first career national Midget win in dramatic fashion at Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex in May, reeling-in Taylor Reimer in 10 laps from over a second behind and making the pass for the win out of Turn 4 on the final lap.
TYING HISTORY — McIntosh garnered six Feature wins in 2024, tying the record for most in a single season set by Chase McDermand in 2023.
His first checkered flag of the season came inside the Southern Illinois Center, where he also won the season opener in 2023. He inherited the lead late in the race after a collision between lapped cars sent leaders Joe B. Miller and Thomas Meseraull spinning to avoid. McIntosh then drove away with his first $5,000 payday of the year.
McIntosh got a rhythm going in May, winning three of the eight races contested that month. His second win of the season came at 81 Speedway in Kansas after Timms blew a tire while leading late in the race. His next two wins came back-to-back, winning the second race at Atomic Speedway in Ohio on May 25, and again at Doe Run Raceway in Missouri on May 30.
Another pair of back-to-back wins came in July, marking his final two Victory Lane trips of the season. Spoon River Speedway in Illinois was the site of his fifth win on July 20, climbing from eighth on the starting grid to win on the high-banked oval. Finally, a sixth win came six days later in his home state of Oklahoma in the Series debut at Arrowhead Speedway.
GOT THEIR ATTENTION — While the full-time roster reigned supreme in the win column, one outsider was consistently a thorn in the side of Series regulars and won a solid share of races in 2024.
Karter Sarff, of Mason City, IL, won four of the 18 Series events he attended, posting a win percentage of 22.2 — second only to McIntosh at 27.2. Aside from his wins, Sarff posted a fourth-best eight top-five finishes and fourth-best 14 top-10 finishes despite recording four less races with a 10th-place finish in the final points standings.
The 21-year-old also led a third-highest 80 total laps in Feature competition, all recorded at US36 Raceway (Osborn, MO), Millbridge Speedway (Salisbury, NC), and Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 (Pevely, MO).
