Everything Cannon McIntosh had accomplished over the past 11 days could be encapsulated in a mere 40 laps during Saturday night’s USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature at Fairbury, Nebraska’s Jefferson County Speedway.

With six laps remaining, the Bixby, Oklahoma racer picked off the front two in one fell swoop to advance from third to first en route to pulling off a $10,000 triumph at the Riverside Chevrolet Midwest Midget Championship Presented by Westin Packaged Meats & Schmidt’s Sanitation, the finale of Mid-America Midget Week 2025.

Over the course of the first two laps of the 40-lap feature, the fifth starting McIntosh fell to as deep as eighth in the running order and remained there for the entire first half of the race in his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/Mobil 1 – Toyota – Curb Records/LynK/Speedway Toyota.

Throughout his past five series starts in an 11-day span, McIntosh has been absolutely stellar. He reigned victorious in the BC39 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, then followed that up by winning the Mid-America Midget Week opener at Missouri’s Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex this past Tuesday. He then took a pair of runner-up results on Wednesday at Kansas’ Mitchell County Fairgrounds and on Friday at Jefferson County, all before returning to victory lane on Saturday at Jefferson County.

Prior to his BC39 victory on July 2, McIntosh stood third in the series standings, a distant 106 points out of the lead. Suddenly, he now finds himself in the driver’s seat in his quest for a first career USAC National Midget title. But as for today, the moment at hand on Jefferson County’s 1/5-mile dirt oval was all that occupied his mind.

“In this race, I wasn’t really thinking about (points),” McIntosh stated. “I knew I was going backwards and I had to change something if I wanted to win the race. You just have to focus on winning races and finishing up front and let the rest of it play itself out. We’ll just keep plugging away. This car has been lights out lately. I just have to do my part when I’m in the seat.”

He certainly did his part late in the going. Yet, early on, McIntosh’s struggle was real as he fell back to the bottom portion of the top-10. But by the halfway point, he was on the move.

“I was going backwards early, but I started to make some ground up top behind those guys and pick a few of them off,” McIntosh recalled. “It was such a fast pace up there, it was really hard to see the cushion and I don’t feel like I was getting all the way up to it to build up speed.”

USAC National Midgets Results: Jefferson County Speedway Saturday

1. Cannon McIntosh (5)

 2. Jacob Denney (4)

3. Logan Seavey (1)

4. Steven Snyder Jr. (3)

5. Gavin Miller (6)

6. Kyle Jones (2)

7. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11)

8. Justin Grant (9)

9. Hayden Reinbold (7)

10. Drake Edwards (16)

 11. Corbin Rueschenberg (17)

12. Mack Leopard (12)

13. Gunnar Setser (14)

14. Ethan Mitchell (10)

15. Kale Drake (13)

16. Trent Way (18)

17. Zack Merritt (23)

18. Bradley Cox (20)

19. Don Droud Jr. (24)

20. Shannon McQueen (19)

21. Blake Spicer (22)

 22. Caiden Warren (21)

23. Cale Coons (15)

24. Brecken Reese (8). NT