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Doty's Prairie Finish is Picture Perfect
Kevin J. O'Donnell
SUN PRAIRIE, WI (July 12, 1998) -- A photo finish forced Badger Midget Auto Racing Association Officials to review a video tape for several minutes before declaring Kevin Doty the winner of the Wentworth Motors - Oldtimers 25 at the Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, WI, Sunday night. Doty edged out Roger Corrigan for the win.
Doty, Burlington, Iowa trailed Corrigan, Loves Park, IL by nearly five car lengths with two laps to go but closed the gap in turns one and two of the white flag lap. Doty came off of turn two riding the rear nerf bar of Corrigan. The pair raced that way down the backstretch and as they entered turn three, Corrigan remained on the outside groove, while Doty dove for the bottom. As Corrigan moved in slightly to protect his line his car to moved into a slick area of the track. Doty and Corrigan came off the fourth turn side by side and raced each other to the checkered.
"I got close enough there that I think he (Corrigan) saw my nose." Doty said from victory lane. "In between three and four, he brought it down from where he was running, and I think that was his mistake, I think if he would have stayed running where he had been, I doubt very much that I would've gotten by him. He got right in the middle where it was on the slick stuff."
Doty, who had run the high groove all night said, "I didn't know if my car would stick down low or not, but it was one of those deals, last lap, where you've got to try it. We tried it, and it worked."
The win was Doty's first of the 1998 season in the Wilke PAK Gaerte / Ellis midget.
Corrigan, who had passed Doty for the lead on a lap one restart and led every lap but the last, had a difficult time holding back his dissapointment. "You gotta run hard on the 24th lap, just like lap number one." Corrigan said. "The car was just awesome tonight, Kurt Gunderson had this thing right on."Kevin Olson, Machesney Park, IL passed Chris Maxson on a re-start on lap 8 after a yellow flag that came out when BMARA points leader, Dan Boorse, Whitefish Bay, WI lost power in his Gaerte / Stealth. Olson challenged Doty for second several times throughout the event.
"We got quicker as the race went on, and I was hoping that over the last few laps we might get in a position to get them both on the bottom." Olson explained. "I kind of got by Doty, and it showed him my track, and then he got away and did what I wanted to do, but we had a pretty good run, we're happy with it."
"The track was really tacky on the bottom." Olson added. "You really had to trust your car to drive it in there hard."
Olson's third place finish put him solidly back into third place in the BMARA points standings.
Earlier in the evening, during the trophy dash, Randy Koch jumped a wheel, which sent his Brayton / Beast flipping violently down the backstretch. Although Koch was awake and alert after the accident, he was removed from the car with a back-brace and transported to the hospital where he underwent a series of cat-scans and X-rays. All of which reportedly came back negative. Koch was released at midnight.
The Badger midgets will race again, this Sunday night at the Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie for the Pizza Hut Family Night 25.
NOTES:
It's a Rolls Canardly: It's a Rolls Canardly: Among the cars in the pits at Angell Park Speedway that had to scratch before turning a competitive lap were the 76 of Marty Davis, the 96 of Dean Billings and the car driven by Mike Bymaster.
Tough Joint: Tough Joint: For the second consecutive week, just 11 cars of the original 22 saw the checkered flag.
Goin' Green: Goin' Green: The green #76 driven by Australian Adam Clarke and owned by Californian Joe Fontana is undergoing extensive repairs after Clarke took a nasty ride in the A-feature on Friday night at the Wolverine Nationals at Kokomo Indiana. Clarke had qualified for the event by finishing third behind Dan Boorse and IRL car owner, Fred Treadway's son, Rick Treadway. The all Australian team is expected to make their return next Sunday night and confirmed last night that they will stay in the U.S. through the Belleville Midget Nationals.
Same Old, Same Old: Same Old, Same Old: Although it has been reported that the Wilke PAK has made a chassis switch from Ellis to Stealth, the car that Kevin Doty drove to victory last night was indeed one of the team's two Ellis cars. They do, however, have a brand new Stealth frame back at their garage.
Fast Qualifier
Rick Treadway
Bob Mueller Jr.#5
Battles for the lead with
John Callahan in heat 2.
A close battle between
Kevin Doty #11 and
Roger Corrigan on the final
lap of the feature race.
Kevin Doty and the crew
in victory lane.CLICK ON ON IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW
Results from July 12th 1998 at Angell Park Speedway
| QUAL | HT 1 | B-FT | A-FT | ||||||
| 1 | 2x | TREADWAY | 14.945 | 1 | MILLER | 1 | MILLER | 1 | DOTY |
| 2 | 23 | CALVERT | 14.948 | 2 | BERG | 2 | McCABE | 2 | CORRIGAN |
| 3 | 1 | K.OLSON | 14.969 | 3 | McCABE | 3 | B.MUELLER | 3 | K.OLSON |
| 4 | 2 | R.KOCH | 14.971 | 4 | KEELAN | 4 | CALLAHAN | 4 | MAXSON |
| 5 | 69 | MAXSON | 14.972 | 5 | A.OLSON | 5 | POLEWCYNSKI | 5 | A.FISCUS |
| 6 | 6 | R.FISCUS | 15.175 | HT 2 | 6 | LABROSSE | 6 | K.KOCH | |
| 7 | 4 | LUECKERT | 15.222 | 1 | B.MUELLER | 7 | BERG | 7 | LUECKERT |
| 8 | 7 | A.FISCUS | 15.254 | 2 | CALLAHAN | 8 | L.MENDRZYCKI | 8 | JONES |
| 9 | 35 | WAELTI | 15.264 | 3 | POLEWCYNSKI | 9 | KOMPPA | 9 | McCABE |
| 10 | 88 | BOORSE | 15.291 | 4 | DULL | 10 | A.OLSON | 10 | CALVERT |
| 11 | 21 | JONES | 15.345 | 5 | L.MENDRZYCKI | 11 | DULL | 11 | B.MUELLER |
| 12 | 65 | CORRIGAN | 15.347 | HT 3 | 12 | H.BAKKEN | 12 | MILLER | |
| 13 | 41 | K.KOCH | 15.349 | 1 | CORRIGAN | 13 | KEELAN | 13 | POLEWCYNSKI |
| 14 | 11 | DOTY | 15.375 | 2 | BOORSE | 14 | K.MENDRZYCKI | 14 | BERG |
| 15 | 71 | SCHENCK | 15.511 | 3 | CALVERT | 15 | R.FISCUS | ||
| 16 | 57 | HATTON | 15.548 | 4 | DOTY | 16 | WAELTI | ||
| 17 | 93 | LABROSSE | 15.555 | 5 | A.FISCUS | 17 | CALLAHAN | ||
| 18 | 3 | BERG | 15.574 | HT 4 | 18 | TREADWAY | |||
| 19 | 55 | CALLAHAN | 15.615 | 1 | K.KOCH | 19 | BOORSE | ||
| 20 | 51 | McCABE | 15.644 | 2 | MAXSON | 20 | SCHENCK | ||
| 21 | 5 | B.MUELLER | 15.732 | 3 | SCHENCK | 21 | L.MENDRZYCKI | ||
| 22 | 17 | KEELAN | 15.821 | 4 | JONES | 22 | LABROSSE | ||
| 23 | 79 | POLEWCYNSKI | 15.912 | 5 | K.OLSON | ||||
| 24 | 99 | WEBER | 15.953 | DASH | |||||
| 25 | 16 | L.MENDRZYCKI | 16.33 | 1 | CALVERT | ||||
| 26 | 75 | MILLER | 16.675 | 2 | R.FISCUS | ||||
| 27 | 56 | DULL | 16.676 | 3 | TREADWAY | ||||
| 28 | 53 | A.OLSON | 16.997 | 4 | K.OLSON | ||||
| 29 | 18 | KOMPPA | 17.377 | 5 | R.KOCH | ||||
| 30 | 73 | H.BAKKEN | 18.017 | 6 | MAXSON | ||||
| 31 | 19 | K.MENDRZYCKI | 18.897 | ||||||
| 32 | 76 | DAVIS | NT | ||||||
| 33 | 74 | J.BAKKEN | NT | ||||||
| 34 | 27 | BYMASTER | NT | ||||||
| 35 | 96 | BILLINGS | NT |
Points Standings as of 7/13/98
POSITION, DRIVER/POINTS, PASS PTS, .......CAR # ,OWNER POINTS
| 1 | DAN BOORSE | 1136 | 58 | 88 | DON BOORSE | 1136 |
| 2 | BOYD CALVERT | 925 | 61 | 23 | G & K RACING | 925 |
| 3 | KEVIN OLSON | 901 | 46 | 1 | DENNY LAMERS | 914 |
| 4 | RANDY KOCH | 867 | 41 | 2 | HARLIN KITTLESON | 867 |
| 5 | AARON FISCUS | 728 | 35 | 11 | WILKE/PAK RACING | 751 |
| 6 | KEVIN KOCH | 663 | 30 | 4 | MIKE MCNULTY | 750 |
| 7 | KEVIN DOTY | 607 | 29 | 7 | JIM FISCUS | 728 |
| 8 | BILL BERG | 599 | 54 | 41 | DWIGHT HUSTON | 663 |
| 9 | DOUG SCHENCK | 575 | 3 | 3 | KEVIN FILLNER | 599 |
| 10 | QUINN McCABE | 566 | 25 | 71 | ROBERT SCHENCK | 575 |
| 11 | MARTY DAVIS | 561 | 30 | 51 | TROY McCABE | 566 |
| 12 | SCOTT HATTON | 544 | 28 | 76 | DAVIS/STILSON RACING | 561 |
| 13 | DEAN BILLINGS | 513 | 41 | 96 | LOTHE,BILLINGS,FALLER,LAMERS | 513 |
| 14 | JERRY COONS JR | 498 | 28 | 65 | LYLE CORRIGAN | 482 |
| 15 | ROGER CORRIGAN | 482 | 30 | 57 | BILL ECKER | 472 |
| 16 | CHRIS MAXSON | 455 | 36 | 69 | TOM BONG | 455 |
| 17 | ADAM CLARKE | 451 | 21 | 76 | ADAM CLARKE | 451 |
| 18 | RANDY FISCUS | 425 | 8 | 6 | JIM FISCUS | 425 |
| 19 | JOHN JONES | 371 | 16 | 21 | JONES MOTORSPORTS | 371 |
| 20 | DON LEHMANN | 326 | 16 | 31 | HOWARD LEHMAN | 326 |
| 21 | ROGER MILLER | 308 | 21 | 75 | SPEEDQUIP MOTORSPORTS | 308 |
| 22 | BRAD WEBER | 267 | 33 | 66 | DENNY LAMERS | 297 |
| 23 | BRANDON WAELTI | 261 | 10 | 99 | BUTCH DAHLKE | 267 |
| 24 | BRYON WALTERS | 248 | 18 | 35 | BRANDON WAETLI | 261 |
| 25 | RICK TREADWAY | 216 | 9 | 5 | BRYON WALTERS | 248 |
| 26 | RICK MUELLER | 203 | 12 | 2 | RICK TREADWAY | 216 |
| 27 | DEAN ERFURTH | 189 | 2 | 10 | DARWIN WOLFGRAM | 203 |
| 28 | ROBERT MUELLER JR | 185 | 29 | 5 | ROBERT MUELLER JR | 185 |
| 29 | BRYCE COLLINGS | 158 | 9 | 15 | DWIGHT HUSTON | 165 |
| 30 | STEVEN GRAHAM | 152 | 3 | 14 | STEVEN GRAHAM | 152 |
| 31 | GREG LUECKERT | 125 | 4 | 49 | NICK LUNDGREEN | 120 |
| 32 | NICK LUNDGREEN | 120 | 9 | 44 | AL COLE | 79 |
| 33 | AL COLE | 79 | 13 | 93 | RICK LABROSE | 77 |
| 34 | RICK LABROSSE | 77 | 6 | 31x | DON LEHMAN | 64 |
| 35 | JOHN CALLAHAN | 63 | 4 | 55 | JOHN CALLAHAN | 63 |
| 36 | JOHN BAKKEN | 60 | 14 | 74 | JOHN BAKKEN | 60 |
| 37 | ROB KEELAN | 57 | 4 | 17 | ROB KEELAN | 57 |
| 38 | RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI | 55 | 2 | 79 | RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI | 55 |
| 39 | LARRY MENDRZYCKI | 50 | 7 | 51 | RAY KOEHLER | 50 |
| 40 | KEN DULL | 47 | 5 | 16 | LARRY MENDRZYCKI | 50 |
| 41 | JASON STEFAN | 44 | 4 | 56 | KEN DULL | 47 |
| 42 | HAROLD BAKKEN | 43 | 8 | 49 | JASON STEFAN | 44 |
| 43 | VERN KOMPPA | 36 | 9 | 73 | HAROLD BAKKEN | 43 |
| 44 | AL OLSON | 35 | 5 | 96x | LOTHE,BILLINGS,FALLER,LAMERS | 39 |
| 45 | BRYAN BILLINGS | 32 | 13 | 18 | VERN KOMPPA | 36 |
| 46 | CHRIS CAREY | 17 | 2 | 53 | AL OLSON | 35 |
| 47 | GREG GRANATH | 16 | 4 | O1 | GREG LUECKERT | 20 |
| 48 | RICH GIERTZ | 11 | 0 | 22 | CHRIS CAREY | 17 |