T-Mez Top USAC Midget Debut at Merced
For Thomas Meseraull, that coveted first points-paying race victory with the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midgets was two decades in the making when he notched win number one in October.
Just a month and change later, Meseraull was celebrating victory number two on Friday night following the series’ first ever event at California’s Merced Speedway. It was the San Jose, Calif. native’s first career USAC National points feature triumph that occurred in his home state.
Meseraull led the final 21 laps of the 30-lap feature, then endured a green-white-checkered finish to put the finishing touches on a winning performance in his RMS Racing/EnviroFab – Guess Performance Parts/Spike/Speedway Toyota.
His inauspicious beginnings to the west coast swing over the past week had resulted in finishes of 16th, 12th and 23rd in his three most recent outings entering Merced, but it was certainly not due to a lack of effort.
“I’m super stoked, especially with all the time and energy and money that gets spent to come out here to the west coast,” Meseraull said. “We haven’t even broken the top-10 in the last three nights, and we’ve been really fast. Racing circumstances just haven’t really played out.”
