BADGER MIDGET AUTO RACING ASSOCIATION
Angell Park Speedway, July 8th, 2000


WAELTI CAPTURES FIREHOUSE NATIONALS
By Bryan Gapinski 
SUN PRAIRIE, WI (July 8)----Brandon Waelti scored a popular hometown victory, by capturing the 50-lap Prairie Firehouse Nationals 50-lap feature, Saturday Night, at Angell Park Speedway. The event was sanctioned by the Badger, NAMARS, and MARA Midget Series. Waelti also received a $1,000 bonus as the overall two-day champion. 
A six car tangle occurred at the start of the event, causing a complete restart. On the start polesitter Kevin Koch jumped into the lead, Waelti jumped into second on the third lap, and two laps later passed Koch for the lead. Waelti began to increase his lead each lap, and began lapping the tail of the field on the 20th circuit. At the midway point Waelti held a 3 second lead over Scott Hatton, Critter Malone, and Jay Drake. Drake retired running third on the 29th lap. Waelti held a six car length lead over Hatton with ten laps remaining, and continued lapping cars. Waelti finished 2.28 seconds ahead of Hatton, Kevin Olson, Koch, Kevin Doty, and series point leader Dan Boorse. 
Waelti shattered the existing 50-lap track record by over 34 seconds, and collected a total of $4,600 for his efforts, driving the Leroy Waelti Stealth-Esslinger#3. Jerry Coons Jr. topped the 47 car field in qualifying, and Kevin Eggert won the 6-lap Rookie Champions Dash. Badger continues with an event at Angell Park on Sunday July 16. NAMARS is slated for racing again on July 15, at Butler Speedway(Quincy, MI), and MARA races in a co-sanctioned event on July 21-22 at the Jacksonville(IL) Raceway. 

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 4 COONS 14.835 1 CRIMMINGS 1 DRAKE 1 WAELTI
2 17k KLEPPER 14.954 2 A.FISCUS 2 CHINN 2 HATTON
3 3 WAELTI 15.001 3 R.FISCUS 3 KLEPPER 3 OLSON
4 67 DRAKE 15.025 4 FORBES 4 VAUGHN 4 K.KOCH
5 30 CAREY 15.066 5 WEBER 5 A.FISCUS 5 DOTY
6 87 OLSON 15.067 HT 2 6 DEBEAUMONT 6 BOORSE
7 2 R.KOCH 15.083 1 MALONE 7 WEBER 7 DESELLE
8 15 HATTON 15.101 2 McCABE 8 FIKE 8 R.KOCH
9 7 MALONE 15.111 3 WAELTI 9 R.FISCUS 9 KLEPPER
10 98 EGGERT 15.12 4 JONES 10 CRIMMINGS 10 WESTFALL
11 41 K.KOCH 15.173 5 OLSON 11 LEHMAN 11 MALONE
12 75 MILLER 15.19 HT 3 12 WELPOT 12 VAUGHN
13 16 VAUGHN 15.225 1 DESELLE 13 R.CAMFIELD 13 WEBER
14 32 FIKE 15.226 2 K.KOCH 14 FORBES 14 JONES
15 71 CHINN 15.228 3 KENDALL 15 KEELAN 15 McCABE
16 11 DOTY 15.275 4 HATTON 16 LABROSSE 16 WELPOT
17 18 WELPOT 15.285 5 CAREY 17 ERFURTH 17 DRAKE
18 10 MUELLER 15.287 HT 4 18 COONS 18 FIKE
19 54 WESTFALL 15.308 1 BOORSE 19 GERBER 19 DEBEAUMONT
20 1 KENDALL 15.316 2 DOTY 20 MILLER 20 EGGERT
21 2x McCABE 15.359 3 R.KOCH 21 TERRY 21 CHINN
22 88 BOORSE 15.385 4 WESTFALL C-FT   22 KENDALL
23 81 DESELLE 15.407 5 EGGERT 1 LEHMAN 23 A.FISCUS
24 21 JONES 15.442 DASH 2 GERBER 24 COONS
25 17d DEBEAUMIONT 15.449 1 WAELTI 3 R.CAMFIELD
26 7 A.FISCUS 15.464 2 OLSON 4 TERRY
27 6x R.FISCUS 15.494 3 COONS 5 KEELAN
28 93 LABROSSE 15.521 4 CAREY 6 FOSTER
29 0 CRIMMINGS 15.523 5 DRAKE 7 BRIGGS
30 5 ERFURTH 15.528 6 KLEPPER 8 PIERCE
31 95 FORBES 15.563 9 BRANSON
32 99 WEBER 15.607 ROOK IE-DASH 10 D.CAMFIELD
33 31 LEHMAN 15.617 1 EGGERT 11 HARTLEY
34 6 R.FISCUS 15.661 2 CRIMMINGS 12 BAKKEN
35 27 FOSTER 15.680 3 PIERCE 13 HOEGSTED
36 27 GERBER 15.785 4 BRIGGS 14 CARNER
37 87 R.CAMFIELD 15.787 5 HARTLEY    
38 40 CARNER 15.827 6 GERBER    
39 69 TERRY 15.835    
40 17 KEELAN 15.853    
41 3 BRANSON 15.932    
42 10 BRIGGS 15.977    
43 26 PIERCE 16.003  
44 47 D.CAMFIELD 16.551
45 77 HARTLEY 17.006
46 74 BAKKEN 17.241
47 97 HOEGSTED 17.279
       

 

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 7/8/2000
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS
1 DAN BOORSE 670 45 88 DON BOORSE 670
2 KEVIN OLSON 637 38 11 WILKE-PAK 650
3 KEVIN DOTY 603 29 87 JOHN SLOTTEN 603
4 SCOTT HATTON 574 26 15 DWIGHT HUSTON 560
5 AARON FISCUS 522 43 7 JIM FISCUS 522
6 RANDY KOCH 497 16 2 HARLIN KITTLESON 497
7 CHAD DESELLE 463 54 81 JIM RAMOS 451
8 BRANDON WAELTI 411 26 3 LEROY WEALTI 411
9 KEVIN KOCH 408 13 41 DWIGHT HUSTON 408
10 DOUG SCHENCK 331 8 4 MIKE MCNULTY 354
11 DAVE RAY 325 15 71 RODOMO RACING 331
12 BRAD WEBER 322 46 33 DAVE-DEBBY RAY 325
13 JERRY COONS JR 297 17 99 BUTCH DAHLKE 322
14 RANDY FISCUS 273 19 6 JIM FISCUS 237
15 ROGER MILLER 228 9 75 SPEED QUIP MOTORSPORTS 228
16 AARON FIKE 204 12 32 RFMS RACING 218
17 RICK MUELER 195 10 76 DAVIS/STILSON RACING 176
18 BOYD CALVERT 192 2 21 JOHN JONES 175
19 MARTY DAVIS 176 13 10 DARWIN WOLFGRAM 173
20 JOHN JONES 175 18 30 CAREY-KING MOTORSPORTS 168
21 CRAIG CAREY 168 11   2x HARLIN KITTLESON 142
22 QUINN McCABE 142 10 98 DAVID EGGERT 137
23 KEVIN EGGERT 137 12 4x MIKE MCNULTY 121
24 ALEX CRIMMNGS 102 5 0 ALEX CRIMMINGS 102
25 ROB KEELAN 94 12 40 WES CARNER 96
26 RON FREDENBERG 81 7 17 ROB KEELAN 94
27 JOHN CALLAHAN 80 17 39 TOM BARTZ 90
28 WES CARNER 75 5 45 BARB FREDENBERG 81
29 BRIAN TERRY 72 9 69 TOM BONG 73
30 DEAN ERFURTH 65 11 50 JOHN CALLAHAN 72
31 BRIAN BILLINGS 61 4 96 BRIAN BILLINS 61
32 TOM BARTZ 56 5 79 RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI 48
33 RICH GIERTZ 47 2 31 RICH GIERTZ 47
34 JOHN BAKKEN 33 6 6x JIM FISCUS 44
35 KRIS HOEGSTED 24 7 74 JOHN BAKKEN 33
36 LANCE ALTMAN 17 7 97 MARY HOEGSTED 24
37 GREG GRANATH 7 1 10x DARWIN WOLFGRAM 22
38 JASON STEFAN 6 0 30 LANCE ALTMAN 17
39 BRYAN WALTERS 6 0 5 RAY KOEHLER 17
40 RICK IMHOFF 4 0 7 GREG GRANATH 15
41 NICK LUNDGREEN 3 0 11w WILKE-PAK 12
42 RICK LABROSSE 3 0 49 JASON STEFAN 6
43 JOHN SAUERMILCH 0 0 7 BRYAN WALTERS 6
44 RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI 0 0 19 RICK IMHOFF 4
45 BOBBY BOONE 0 0 9 BUTCH DAHLKE 3
46 B.J. DAHLKE 0 0 93 RICK LABROSSE 3
  38 JOHN SAUERMILCH 0
  89 BOBBY BOONE 0

 

 

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