Lonnie Wheatley, BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (March 14, 2023) – Cannon McIntosh moved to the top of the 2023 edition of the Midget Power Rankings charts following a win in Friday night’s Xtreme Outlaw Midget season opener at Du Quoin’s Southern Illinois Center.
McIntosh split the weekend’s victory honors with 16-year-old Cali sensation Jade Avedisian, who made a jump to third in the Midget Power Rankings with her Saturday night win after a spirited contest with Thomas Meseraull.
Texas shoe Kyle Jones is sandwiched by McIntosh and Avedisian in the Midget Power Rankings, sitting at second after a top-ten at the Chili Bowl and then a podium finish Saturday night in Du Quoin.
The lead trio of McIntosh, Jones and Avedisian are among just a handful of drivers to race into the January’s Chili Bowl finale as well as both feature nights at Du Quoin along with Mitchel Moles and Meseraull.
McIntosh opened the season with a Chili Bowl prelim win and a third-place run in the finale before winning Friday’s Xtreme opener. His luck soured on Saturday night win an early flip that put him on the sidelines for the balance of the feature.
After narrowly missing the top spot in the Midget Power Rankings in both 2020 and 2022, McIntosh is out to an early 17-point advantage over Jones with Avedisian another point back in third. Chili Bowl champ Logan Seavey is fourth with Moles rounding out the current top five.
Tanner Thorson, Shane Golobic, McDermand, Emerson Axsom and Justin Grant fill out the current top ten.
There is a lone Midget event on the slate this weekend as the USAC Western States Midgets kick off the 2023 campaign Saturday night at Bakersfield Speedway with POWRi’s annual Turnpike Challenge looming next Thursday through Saturday (March 23-25) in Oklahoma at Creek County Speedway (pending completion of track improvements) and two nights at Port City with Western States in action as well at Antioch next Saturday, March 25.
The Midget Power Rankings are a part of the Open Wheel Power Rankings that also includes STIDA Winged 410s, Non-Wing Sprint Cars and Rod End Supply Winged 360s.
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The current Top 25 in Midget Power Rankings is as follows:
| Rank | Name | Wins | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cannon McIntosh | 2 | 101 |
| 2 | Kyle Jones | 0 | 84 |
| 3 | Jade Avedisian | 1 | 83 |
| 4 | Logan Seavey | 2 | 80 |
| 5 | Mitchel Moles | 0 | 77 |
| 6 | Tanner Thorson | 1 | 75 |
| 7 | Shane Golobic | 0 | 63 |
| 8 | Chase McDermand | 0 | 61 |
| 9 | Emerson Axsom | 0 | 60 |
| 10 | Justin Grant | 0 | 50 |
| 11 | Trey Marcham | 0 | 48 |
| 12 | Tim Buckwalter | 0 | 46 |
| 13 | Thomas Meseraull | 0 | 45 |
| 14 | Hank Davis | 1 | 40 |
| 15 | Rico Abreu | 1 | 39 |
| 16 | Chris Windom | 0 | 39 |
| 17 | Zeb Wise | 0 | 38 |
| 18 | Kevin Thomas, Jr. | 0 | 37 |
| 19 | Chance Crum | 0 | 33 |
| 20 | Tim McCreadie | 0 | 33 |
| 21 | Spencer Bayston | 0 | 32 |
| 22-tie | Landon Brooks | 0 | 31 |
| 22-tie | Shane Cottle | 0 | 31 |
| 24 | Brent Crews | 0 | 28 |
| 25 | Chase Johnson | 0 | 26 |
Features Completed: 8 (108 in 2022, 132 in 2021, 87 in 2020, 124 in 2019, 116 in 2018, 131 in 2017, 158 in 2016, 141 in 2015, 126 in 2014, 154 in 2013)
Number of Different Winners: 6 (48 in 2022, 50 in 2021, 37 in 2020, 51 in 2019, 56 in 2018, 60 in 2017, 62 in 2016, 65 in 2015, 57 in 2014, 66 in 2013)
Number of Drivers to Earn Points: 82 (164 in 2022, 190 in 2021, 167 in 2020, 214 in 2019, 226 in 2018, 236 in 2017, 278 in 2016, 274 in 2015, 241 in 2014, 248 in 2013)
Past Top Tens in Midget Power Rankings:
2022 – 1. Michael “Buddy” Kofoid (16) 725, 2. Cannon McIntosh (15) 725, 3. Bryant Wiedeman (2) 597, 4. Justin Grant (7) 528, 5. Brenham (1) 439, 6. Zach Daum (1) 387, 7. Thomas Meseraull (4) 380, 8. Jacob Denney (1) 318, 9. Chance Crum (1) 310, 10. Mitchel Moles (4) 281.
2021 – 1. Michael “Buddy” Kofoid (15) 924, 2. Chris Windom (7) 615, 3. Daison Pursley (8) 613, 4. Justin Grant (5) 603, 5. Emerson Axsom (4) 599, 6. Cannon McIntosh (5) 568, 7. Tanner Thorson (7) 492, 8. Bryant Wiedeman (3) 438, 9. Logan Seavey (2) 403, 10. Thomas Meseraull (5) 337.
2020 – 1. Michael “Buddy” Kofoid (10) 689, 2. Cannon McIntosh (8) 687, 3. Tanner Thorson (8) 559, 4. Tyler Courtney (5) 481, 5. Chris Windom (4) 457, 6. Daison Pursley (2) 390, 7. Jake Neuman (2) 317, 8. Logan Seavey (2) 304, 9. Kyle Larson (7) 299, 10. Thomas Meseraull (4) 271.
2019 – 1. Logan Seavey (16) 891, 2. Tyler Courtney (9) 605, 3. Zeb Wise (5) 490, 4. Jesse Colwell (2) 467, 5. Tanner Carrick (2) 435, 6. Chris Windom (2) 404, 7. Cannon McIntosh (1) 382, 8. Zach Daum 375, 9. Tucker Klaasmeyer 363, 10. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (2) 326.
2018 – 1. Logan Seavey (9) 734, 2. Tucker Klaasmeyer (6) 483, 3. Ryan Robinson (1) 457, 4. Tanner Carrick (2) 442, 5. Christopher Bell (9) 345, 6. Chad Boat (2) 321, 7. Tyler Courtney (3) 312, 8. Zach Daum (1) 295, 9. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (5) 294, 10. Justin Grant (2) 281.
2017 – 1. Spencer Bayston (8) 668, 2. Tanner Thorson (7) 608, 3. Shane Golobic (1) 444, 4. Tyler Courtney (5) 408, 5. Justin Grant (3) 359, 6. Christopher Bell (10) 346, 7. Brady Bacon (4) 342, 8. Zach Daum (1) 325, 9. Ryan Robinson 289, 10. Tyler Thomas (6) 277.
2016 – 1. Tanner Thorson (16) 795, 2. Spencer Bayston (3) 666, 3. Carson Macedo (3) 551, 4. Zach Daum (4) 469, 5. Brady Bacon (1) 356, 6. Bryan Clauson (5) 317, 7. Chad Boat (3) 310, 8. Tyler Thomas 294, 9. Ryan Robinson 282, 10. Justin Peck (1) 273.
2015 – 1. Tanner Thorson (7) 548, 2. Darren Hagen (5) 522, 3. Spencer Bayston (5) 500, 4. Rico Abreu (9) 488, 5. Christopher Bell (8) 438, 6. Bryan Clauson (6) 422, 7. Andrew Felker (3) 383, 8. Zach Daum (3) 379, 9. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (3) 373, 10. Tyler Thomas (2) 276.
2014 – 1. Christopher Bell (16) 659, 2. Zach Daum (4) 589, 3. Bryan Clauson (10) 555, 4. Rico Abreu (5) 449, 5. Darren Hagen (6) 421, 6. Tanner Thorson (2) 411, 7. Andrew Felker (3) 313, 8. Tracy Hines (2) 304, 9. Tyler Thomas (1) 283, 10. Alex Bright (5) 244.
2013 – 1. Christopher Bell (10) 543, 2. Zach Daum (8) 504, 3. Darren Hagen (8) 415, 4. Andrew Felker (2) 406, 5. Rico Abreu (7) 402, 6. Bryan Clauson (8) 397, 7. Brad Kuhn (1) 325, 8. Tracy Hines (2) 322, 9. Ronnie Gardner (13) 280, 10. Alex Bright (3) 231.
The Open Wheel Power Rankings are determined by cumulative points based on a sliding scale dependent upon car count at Sprint Car and Midget events across all sanctions and non-sanctions throughout North America.