{"id":5739,"date":"2024-12-26T17:29:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T21:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtremeoutlawseries.com\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:29:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T05:29:57","slug":"zach-daum-returns-kameron-key-joins-trifecta-motorsports-for-2025-xtreme-outlaw-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtremeoutlawseries.com\/news\/zach-daum-returns-kameron-key-joins-trifecta-motorsports-for-2025-xtreme-outlaw-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Daum Returns, Kameron Key Joins Trifecta Motorsports for 2025 Xtreme Outlaw Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
Trifecta Motorsports came within one spot of their first national Midget championship two seasons ago. The Oklahoma team knows they can do one spot better, and they\u2019re coming back to chase it in 2025.<\/p>\n
The Tulsa-based operation will continue as a two-car team for their fourth consecutive season chasing points with the Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series presented by Toyota. Inaugural Series champion Zach Daum will pilot the team\u2019s flagship Stanton-powered Spike Chassis No. 7U alongside a brand-new teammate \u2014\u00a0Missouri Micro Sprint and Winged Sprint Car racer, Kameron Key.<\/p>\n
While 2024 fell short of the follow-up they had hoped for after a milestone 2023 campaign, team co-owner Steve Carbone said this past season \u00ad\u2014 which came with multiple mechanical failures early in the season \u2014 is behind them. He and co-owner Staton Flurry are ready to put their most competitive effort to-date on track in pursuit of a national Midget championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven with the trials and tribulations we had last year, we had some very uncharacteristic mechanical failures, and we think we\u2019ve remedied all that now,\u201d Carbone said. \u201cWe love it, that\u2019s why we do it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe real reason \u2014 we came so close to accomplishing the goal in 2023. We\u2019re just as hungry. We have tip-top expectations, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the struggles, Daum reached Victory Lane twice in Xtreme competition in 2024 and finished fifth in the championship points standings. In that time, he uncovered his path back to the top of the national Midget ranks.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t drop a night and expect to still be competitive with this deal,\u201d Daum said. \u201cEspecially with the short schedule, and without any rainouts that are potential. When you\u2019re only running less than 30 races, you can\u2019t afford to have an issue. We just had too many issues.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we can clean that up for next year, I think we\u2019ll be back where we should be.\u201d<\/p>\n As he did for the first time in 2024, Daum will have a teammate to work with on the track. Key will take over in the seat of a Stanton-powered Spike Chassis No. 9U for his rookie national Midget season after years racing Micro Sprints and Winged Sprint Cars across the Midwest.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m super excited, and to be able to run for a real points championship,\u201d Key said. \u201cI\u2019ve never had an opportunity to be able to do anything like that, other than weekly, local shows.<\/p>\n \u201cTo actually have a real championship with full-time people, and to see new racetracks, be out on the road, I\u2019m looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n While Key will be a rookie in 2025, he\u2019s already made several starts in a Midget for TKH Motorsports and become acquainted with Daum, having piloted a Trifecta car during the Xtreme Outlaw Series season finale at Jacksonville Speedway.<\/p>\n He\u2019ll also stay busy between Series races, running a Winged Sprint Car part-time for Kansas-based Beaver Racing.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s been around a while, and for the limited amount of Midget stuff he\u2019s actually done, he\u2019s very talented,\u201d Daum said of Key. \u201cI think next year, he\u2019ll be even better because he gets to race a lot next year, and typically he doesn\u2019t get to race much. He has really good results on very minimal races.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s starting in February. He\u2019s gonna be racing a lot on top of running the Midget. When you jump from a Winged Sprint Car, a Midget is very slow, so I think your driving (abilities) increase exponentially when you go from a Winged Sprint Car back to a Midget.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe showed good speed, and I think they\u2019re really well-built race cars,\u201d Key said of the two starts he made with Trifecta in October. \u201cBobby Milliser (crew chief), Steve Carbone, Staton Flurry and everybody, it\u2019s a really organized team. I think we should be fast out of the gate. I don\u2019t really know what to set my expectations at, but the sky\u2019s the limit, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n From what was once only a small, single-car operation forged by Carbone and Flurry in 2018 to compete once a year at the Chili Bowl Nationals has blossomed into a multi-car stable, now armed with top equipment and a pair of veteran open wheel drivers as they chase a national championship.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a reality not even the team leaders could have imagined less than a decade ago.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was absolutely not the plan; this was never even discussed, but we\u2019re just enjoying it that much and we\u2019re having that much fun,\u201d Carbone said. \u201cWe\u2019ve just got all the right people around us right now, that\u2019s the big thing. Bobby is such an integral part, and we all just see exactly eye-to-eye on everything.<\/p>\n Some of the stuff you don\u2019t see \u2014 we\u2019ve got some partners and sponsors that have stepped up, and they\u2019ve become a big part of the machine. We\u2019ve just got more help than we\u2019ve ever had, and we\u2019re just gonna go chase it.\u201d<\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss Daum, Key and the Trifecta team take on the entire Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series presented by Toyota schedule in 2025, starting with the season opener at Farmer City Raceway in Farmer City, IL, April 11\u201312. Tickets for the event are on sale now:<\/p>\n