Anthony Macri couldn’t find the words to describe what winning three features in two days this past weekend meant for he and his team.

The Dillsburg, PA driver went on the road with the World of Outlaws in March and was met with frustrating results as he had an average finish of 16.5 in four starts. Due to the underwhelming performances, Macri came back home to PA, where the program has been trending in the right direction.

Macri captured an opening day victory at Port Royal Speedway March 25 and scored his second win of the season at Lincoln Speedway ten days later before pulling off perhaps one of the better feats of his career this past weekend.

On Friday night, Macri started on the pole for the 30-lap, $8,088 to win Tommy Hinnershitz Classic at Williams Grove Speedway and drove away to a 5.8 second win over Brock Zearfoss. Macri couldn’t celebrate the victory as he quickly had to jump back in his No. 39M to run the final 20 laps of the April 4 feature. “I knew there was another job to be done,” Macri said.

When that feature went green, Macri started second behind Matt Campbell and nearly slid into the lead going into turn one on the opening lap. But he wasn’t able to complete the pass and instead stalked Campbell for several laps with a car he said was struggling bad through slower traffic.

Macri was waiting for his opportunity to pounce and that chance would come with four laps to go when the caution flew. On the restart, Macri said he dropped his wing back a few inches and began to attack the corners aggressively. The change in driving style paid off as Macri got a run on Campbell down the backstretch with three laps to go and drove it deep down the inside going into turn three to slide in front of Campbell to take the top spot and the win, raking in more than $13,500 in the process.

This was the first time in his career Macri won two features on the same night and he was proud of the achievement. “I don’t think we were ever in a position to do something like that before,” Macri said. “That’s pretty cool and I’m glad its something I can say I did.”

Following the success at the Grove, Macri headed south to Lincoln for the Weldon Sterner Memorial, where he hoped to keep his hot streak going and did so when the dust settled. He was the fastest overall in time trials, won his heat race and redrew the fourth starting spot for the 33-lap, $10,069 to win main event.

When the green flag dropped, Macri settled into third and was content to ride behind Campbell and second-place running Cameron Smith until the trio hit slower traffic. Macri held down the third spot until a yellow on lap eight stacked the field up for a restart. He rolled around the outside of Smith for the runner-up spot on the restart and stayed in lock step with Campbell as Macri continued to pace himself and make in-car adjustments.

When the caution flew with 12 laps to go, Macri, in similar fashion to how he took the win away from Campbell the night prior, executed a slide job to perfection on the restart to drive away. However, getting to the checkered flag wasn’t a cakewalk as Macri would later be tasked with holding off Danny Dietrich on a green-white-checkered restart.

The victory for Macri boosted his weekend earnings to just north of $24,000. While he’s had several big weekends in his career, Macri holds this past weekend’s accomplishment in high regard as he believes it was significant for confidence and morale within the team

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“I know I was down in the dirt and these guys were as well,” Macri said. “We just had to put our heads down and keep working our way out of it. You enjoy and cherish the wins way more when you have a long streak of struggles. Its honestly a huge weekend, and I really don’t know how to describe the importance of it for me and this team. My team works so hard and they never give up, so I just try to do my best.”

Macri attributed the turnaround to a fresh car he began running following the swing with the Outlaws. “We brought down a new car and have tried a bunch of different things to get faster,” Macri said. “I feel like we’re onto something now, and I feel like we’ll be a little better if we continue to tweak on it from where we’re at now.”

Macri is expected to stay close to home this weekend before traveling to Eldora the following week to compete with the Outlaws and coming back home.

“We’ll pick and choose where we want to travel,” Macri said. “We’re winning races, but I feel like there is still room to improve during certain times of the race. Although I feel confident enough that we could go somewhere right now and time trial well and run good in a heat to get into the dash, we want to have all our ducks in a row before going back out. I feel like we’re way different than we were two months ago and I’m ready to win more.”