HAUBSTADT, Ind. — Thomas Meseraull has made a habit of changing up the narratives at Tri-State Speedway in recent years.
Two years ago, the San Jose, Calif., driver erased two decades of frustration by scoring his first career USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature victory at the track.Â
One year ago, Meseraull became the first driver ever to score multiple USAC National Midget victories at Tri-State, ending a string of 12 consecutive series races held at the quarter-mile dirt oval since 1969 in which a different winning driver emerged.
Just this past June, Meseraull once again paced the field to become the first three-time USAC National Midget winner at the track and now holds the belt as the undisputed king of midget racing at “The Class Track.”
This Saturday night, Meseraull will attempt to keep the roll going in his RMS Racing No. 7x during Harvest Cup at Tri-State — the final USAC National Midget event in the Midwest this year before the series heads west.
Meseraull’s USAC midget experience at the track goes back more than a decade where he finished 10th in 2010, third in 2011, eighth in 2019 and third once more in June of 2021. He also possesses the 10-lap record set in October of 2021 — a time of 2:17.42 — which broke his own previous record from 10 years earlier.
Over the past four USAC Midget events at Tri-State, only Kyle Cummins has put a halt to Meseraull’s winning streak.
By now, everyone is fully cognizant of his scores of wins in USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car and MSCS competition at the track. However, he’s yet to finish outside the top-six in each of five career midget starts at the track. His victorious run in the summer of 2021 is sandwiched between a pair of third-place results, a fifth and a sixth.
Zach Daum captured his first career USAC National Midget victory at Tri-State back in the 2011 Hut 100. He’s also been a top-five runner in 2010 with a fifth and, most recently, slotted into the sixth position this past June.
Justin Grant has finished inside the top-10 in all five of his USAC Midget starts at Tri-State. He earned hard charger honors in the 2019 TSS USAC Midget Harvest Cup feature, ripping through the field to finish fifth after starting 16th. In the 2021 Harvest Cup, he took third for his best series result at the track.
The July 2021 TSS Indiana Sprint Week winner also owns a pair of eighths and a ninth with the midgets on his TSS resume.
Buddy Kofoid has progressively finished higher in each of his USAC Midget appearances at Tri-State. He finished 12th in his 2020 debut, followed by a 10th and ninth in 2021. This past June, he and Grant tussled for the win.
The lucky number for Daison Pursley at Tri-State has been four in his last two go-arounds at Tri-State, finishing an impressive fourth in both 2021 rounds. They’re joined by KKM’s Tri-State experienced pilots who both finished inside the top-10 in June of this year with Taylor Reimer scoring a seventh and Dominic Gorden notching a 10th.
Their Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports teammates include Kaylee Bryson, who knows how to charge at Tri-State. She bolted from 22nd to ninth in the fall of 2021 and, this past June, made the biggest advancement of the season with a 22nd to fourth surge.
Bryant Wiedeman took eighth in the 2021 Harvest Cup while Brenham Crouch tallied a best of 14th in June.
Mitchel Moles and Chase McDermand will team up on CB Industries’ weekend roster for Tri-State. Both made their Tri-State debuts back in June of this year and both turned in impressive performances. Top-rated rookie Moles traveled 10th to third in that night’s feature while McDermand made a similarly magnificent advancement from 16th to eighth.
First-time Tri-State USAC Midget feature starting hopefuls include BCRA Midget champion Maria Cofer and Midwest Mini Sprint Association standout Jeff Schindler, as well as micro sprint talent Talin Turner.