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Zach Daum Dominates in POWRi National & West Midget League Win at Port City Raceway
Tulsa, OK. (10/10/26) — Zach Daum would cruise to back-to-back victories at Port City Raceway on Saturday night, earning his twenty-sixth career feature win with the POWRi National and West Midget Leagues in Night Two of the annual Charlene Meents Memorial after leading all thirty laps of the feature event.
Speedy on-track excitement with thirty-three talented entries in the POWRi National and West Midgets would find Gaige Weldon starting the action with quick time in qualifying, posting a 9.864-second lap. Zach Daum, Ethan Mitchell, Cooper Miller, and Kale Drake would each notch heat racing wins, as Jonathan Beason and Landon Henry claimed the B-Feature victories.
Launching the feature field would find high-point qualifier Zach Daum and Karter Sarff leading the field to the green flag, with Daum gaining the initial advantage on the opening lap.
Dominating the feature from start to finish, Zach Daum would remain untouchable out front, maintaining command through multiple restarts and separating himself from the field by more than two seconds. Going virtually uncontested throughout the thirty-lap feature, Daum would cruise to his second consecutive victory of the weekend, with Kale Drake earning runner-up honors for the second straight night as Ethan Mitchell completed the podium when the checkered flag flew.
“We didn’t touch hardly a thing all weekend on this car, Jody Rosenboom and team have this thing on a rail right now, and it’s just fun to drive. We have a happy race car right now,” said Zach Daum in the Tulsa winner’s circle. Adding, “Thirty laps up on the cushion, I didn’t think I still had that in me; time to have a beer and head home a winner.”
Remaining in contention throughout the feature, Karter Sarff would finish fourth, with Kyle Jones recovering and charging past eleven competitors to round out the top five finishers with the POWRi National and West Midget Leagues in Night Two of the annual Charlene Meents Memorial at Port City Raceway.
POWRi National/West Midgets | Port City Raceway | 10/10/26 | Full Results:
Big R Stores Quick Qualifying Time: 35L-Gaige Weldon(9.864)
Flying A Motorsports Heat Race 1 Winner: 14X-Zach Daum
Eibach Heat Race 2 Winner: 19-Ethan Mitchell
MVT Services Heat Race 3 Winner: 8L-Cooper Miller
Engler Machine Heat Race 4 Winner: 4-Kale Drake
RaceTech Titanium Semi-Feature 1 Winner: 36-Jonathan Beason
Max Papis Innovations Semi-Feature 2 Winner: 3U-Landon Henry
Start2Finish TV High Point Qualifier: 14X-Zach Daum
Hoosier Racing Tire Hard Charger: 27X-Kyle Jones(+11)
Toyota Racing Development Feature Winner: 14X-Zach Daum
Event Information: https://www.myracepass.com/events/601152.
Toyota Racing Development A-Feature (30 Laps): 1. 14X-Zach Daum[1]; 2. 4-Kale Drake[6]; 3. 19M-Ethan Mitchell[3]; 4. 7U-Karter Sarff[2]; 5. 27X-Kyle Jones[16]; 6. 36-Jonathan Beason[17]; 7. 85-Trey Marcham[5]; 8. 4B-Chelby Hinton[11]; 9. 20Q-Brecken Reese[10]; 10. 83H-Cullen Hutchison[8]; 11. 11A-Andrew Felker[7]; 12. 19AZ-Drew Sherman[20]; 13. 40X-Mack Leopard[13]; 14. 76-Zane Lawrence[15]; 15. 40D-Drake Edwards[19]; 16. 19U-Pierce Urbanosky[23]; 17. 22-Kobe Simpson[22]; 18. 28-Ace McCarthy[14]; 19. 8L-Cooper Miller[4]; 20. 00-Hank Davis[21]; 21. 35L-Gaige Weldon[12]; 22. 8-Alex Sewell[9]; 23. 3U-Landon Henry[18]
RaceTech Titanium B-Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 36-Jonathan Beason[7]; 2. 40D-Drake Edwards[5]; 3. 00-Hank Davis[4]; 4. 8B-Kurt Blackaby[2]; 5. 19U-Pierce Urbanosky[1]; 6. 84S-Shaun Shapel[8]; 7. 98P-Ryan Padgett[6]; 8. (DNS) 14F-Kris Carroll; 9. (DNS) 4F-Chad Frewaldt
Max Papis Innovations B-Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 3U-Landon Henry[1]; 2. 19AZ-Drew Sherman[2]; 3. 22-Kobe Simpson[5]; 4. T21-Kade Taylor[7]; 5. 4K-Kermit Burnam Jr[3]; 6. 7M-Jordan McCann[6]; 7. 32C-Michael Hubert[4]; 8. (DNS) 75-Deekan McRoberts
Flying A Motorsports Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 14X-Zach Daum[4]; 2. 83H-Cullen Hutchison[2]; 3. 28-Ace McCarthy[1]; 4. 27X-Kyle Jones[3]; 5. 8B-Kurt Blackaby[6]; 6. 14F-Kris Carroll[8]; 7. 22-Kobe Simpson[5]; 8. T21-Kade Taylor[7]; 9. (DNS) 4F-Chad Frewaldt
Eibach Racing Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 19M-Ethan Mitchell[2]; 2. 8-Alex Sewell[1]; 3. 20Q-Brecken Reese[3]; 4. 40X-Mack Leopard[4]; 5. 19AZ-Drew Sherman[5]; 6. 00-Hank Davis[6]; 7. 98P-Ryan Padgett[7]; 8. 84S-Shaun Shapel[8]
MVT Services Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 8L-Cooper Miller[2]; 2. 7U-Karter Sarff[4]; 3. 4B-Chelby Hinton[3]; 4. 76-Zane Lawrence[5]; 5. 19U-Pierce Urbanosky[8]; 6. 32C-Michael Hubert[6]; 7. 7M-Jordan McCann[7]; 8. 75-Deekan McRoberts[1]
Engler Machine Tool Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Kale Drake[1]; 2. 85-Trey Marcham[3]; 3. 11A-Andrew Felker[6]; 4. 35L-Gaige Weldon[4]; 5. 3U-Landon Henry[7]; 6. 4K-Kermit Burnam Jr[8]; 7. 40D-Drake Edwards[5]; 8. 36-Jonathan Beason[2]
Big R Stores Qualifying Group 1 (3 Laps): 1. 14X-Zach Daum, 09.894[9]; 2. 27X-Kyle Jones, 09.917[2]; 3. 83H-Cullen Hutchison, 09.997[5]; 4. 28-Ace McCarthy, 10.001[3]; 5. 22-Kobe Simpson, 10.207[8]; 6. 8B-Kurt Blackaby, 10.249[7]; 7. T21-Kade Taylor, 10.431[4]; 8. 14F-Kris Carroll, 10.435[1]; 9. 4F-Chad Frewaldt, 16.000[6]
Big R Stores Qualifying Group 2 (3 Laps): 1. 40X-Mack Leopard, 09.884[6]; 2. 20Q-Brecken Reese, 09.915[3]; 3. 19M-Ethan Mitchell, 09.983[4]; 4. 8-Alex Sewell, 09.986[8]; 5. 19AZ-Drew Sherman, 10.158[1]; 6. 00-Hank Davis, 10.160[2]; 7. 98P-Ryan Padgett, 10.232[7]; 8. 84S-Shaun Shapel, 12.611[5]
Big R Stores Qualifying Group 3 (3 Laps): 1. 7U-Karter Sarff, 10.002[5]; 2. 4B-Chelby Hinton, 10.019[6]; 3. 8L-Cooper Miller, 10.176[7]; 4. 75-Deekan McRoberts, 10.526[1]; 5. 76-Zane Lawrence, 10.534[8]; 6. 32C-Michael Hubert, 10.577[3]; 7. 7M-Jordan McCann, 10.686[2]; 8. 19U-Pierce Urbanosky, 10.698[4]
Big R Stores Qualifying Group 4 (3 Laps): 1. 35L-Gaige Weldon, 09.864[4]; 2. 85-Trey Marcham, 09.906[7]; 3. 36-Jonathan Beason, 09.946[2]; 4. 4-Kale Drake, 10.003[1]; 5. 40D-Drake Edwards, 10.075[8]; 6. 11A-Andrew Felker, 10.187[3]; 7. 3U-Landon Henry, 10.219[6]; 8. 4K-Kermit Burnam Jr, 16.001[5]
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