FIKE CLAIMS BADGER MIDGET TITLE
HINES WINS SECOND STRAIGHT FIREMANS NAT'LS
SUN PRAIRIE, WI, September 1---Tracy Hines, captured the 21st annual Fireman's Nationals presented by Coca-Cola, for the second straight year, Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. Aaron Fike emerged as the Badger Midget Series Champion in the season finale for the series, despite finishing 20th in the event.
Scott Hatton paced the initial lap, before Davey Ray who was challenging Fike for the title took over the lead. Ray began increasing his lead each lap over a tightly bunched field of cars. Ray enjoyed a ten car length advantage when he spun on the ninth lap. Ray restarted at the tail of the field. Hatton now assumed the lead and held it for a lap before Chad DeSelle moved in front, while Hines moved into fourth place.
Fike spun exiting turn two on the 14th lap running fourth, and was clipped by defending series champ Dan Boorse. The event was stopped, when it was discovered Fike needed medical attention, as a foreign object struck Fike entering his face sheild. Fike was transported to Columbus Hospital, and treated for facial injuries, and a slight concussion.
Hines chased down DeSelle passing him for the lead on the 17th lap, and began stretching his lead. Jay Drake who started last after missing qualifications now was running tenth. Hines began lapping the tail of field on the 30th lap, and Drake continued his charge throught the field.
Hines enjoyed a three second lead, over Hatton with ten laps remaining as Drake was now in third. A stalled car bunched up the field, with three laps remaining but on the restart Hines pulled away unchallenged. Hines drove the Wilke-PAK Motorsports/Stealth-Seco-Mopar#11 entry. Hatton, Drake, Matt Westfall in a second Wilke-PAK entry, and DeSelle rounded out the top five finishers. Ray finished sixth. Final standings show that Fike finished 26 points ahead of Ray, becoming the youngest champion in the 66 year history of the organization, at the age of 19 years, 9 months, and eight days old.

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 11 HINES 14.693 1 HEISS 1 A.J.FIKE 1 HINES
2 44 EBBERTS 14.716 2 J.JONES 2 MALONE 2 HATTON
3 63 FLESHER 14.723 3 A.FISCUS 3 GERSTER 3 DRAKE
4 95 A.FIKE 14.729 4 IMHOFF 4 LUNDGREEN 4 WESTFALL
5 3 WAELTI 14.732 5 CALVERT 5 McCABE 5 DESELLE
6 81 DESELLE 14.738 HT 2 6 A.FISCUS 6 RAY
7 69 A.J.FIKE 14.747 1 DOTY 7 CAREY 7 HESS
8 2 RAY 14.748 2 HESS 8 CALVERT 8 WAELTI
9 6x SCHENCK 14.802 3 DESELLE 9 OLSON 9 EBBERTS
10 15 HATTON 14.849 4 FLESHER 10 CLAAS 10 A.FISCUS
11 15x GERSTER 14.853 5 SCHENCK 11 ERFURTH 11 A.J.FIKE
12 51 HESS 14.878 HT 3 12 R.FISCUS 12 DOTY
13 88 BOORSE 14.889 1 RAY 13 WEISENSEL 13 GERSTER
14 71 KUHN 14.907 2 WESTFALL 14 BRANSON 14 SCHENCK
15 99 CLAAS 14.946 3 EBBERT 15 J.JONES 15 McCABE
16 7 MALONE 14.968 4 WAELTI 16 FREDENBERG 16 FLESHER
17 11x WESTFALL 15.021 5 DRAKE 17 MAYHEW 17 CLAAS
18 20 McCABE 15.071 HT 4 18 GOUGH 18 MALONE
19 57 KOCH 15.094 1 BOORSE 19 IMHOFF 19 KOCH
20 75 CAREY 15.096 2 A.FIKE 20 MUELLER 20 A.FIKE
21 50 DOTY 15.191 3 HINES 21 HEISS 21 BOORSE
22 72 GOUGH 15.266 4 KOCH     22 LUNDGREEN
23 10x OLSON 15.321 5 HATTON     23 CAREY
24 44 BRANSON 15.328 DASH C-FT  
25 6 R.FISCUS 15.328 1 HINES 1 ERFURTH
26 7 A.FISCUS 15.334 2 FLESHER 2 WEISENSEL
27 22 MUELLER 15.351 3 WAELTI 3 KEELAN
28 10 CALVERT 15.374 4 A.FIKE 4 MAYHEW
29 19 IMHOFF 15.408 5 DESELLE 5 STROEHLE
30 45 FREDENBERG 15.447 6 EBBERT 6 BLAND
31 21 J.JONES 15,459 7 STROUD
32 0 HEISS 15.484   8 COLE
33 20 WEISENSEL 15.489     9 WIPPERFURTH
34 79 ERFURTH 15,522     10 K.DULL
35 21 MAYHEW 15.544     11 ZANE
36 40 KEELAN 15.546     12 HOEGSTED
37 21 STROUD 15.565     13 SAUER
38 5 BLAND 15.606     14 ALTMANN
39 44 COLE 15.626 15 P.JONES
40 81x WIPPERFURTH 15.639 16 J.DULL
41 56 K.DULL 16.01 17 KUHN
42 29 P.JONES 16.083
43 77 ZANE 16.114
44 97 HOEGSTED 16.124
45 8 ALTMANN 16.318
46 1 SAUER 16.451
47 77 J.DULL 20.027
48 9 STROEHLE NT
49 20 KUHN NT
50 95x   NT
51 2x   NT

 

 

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 9/1/2002
POSITION, RCS DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, RCS OWNER, POINT
1 16 AARON FIKE 1405 84 95 18 WISCO RACING 1499
2 19 DAVE RAY 1379 36 2 19 HARLIN KITTLESON 1379
3 19 MIKE HESS 1248 38 51 19 MIKE HESS 1248
4 19 CHAD DESELLE 1179 23 81 19 RENEE & ADRIANNE DeSELLE 1179
5 18 DAN BOORSE 1088 35 88 18 DON BOORSE 1088
6 19 BRANDON WAELTI 1080 23 3 19 LEROY WAELTI & SCHULENBERG 1055
7 19 AARON FISCUS 1036 45 7 19 JIM FISCUS 994
8 18 SCOTT HATTON 926 51 15 18 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 926
9 8 TRACY HINES 757 40 11 9 WILKE-PAK MOTORSPORTS 820
10 19 QUINN McCABE 756 59 20 19 HOT ROD MOTORSPORTS 756
11 19 RANDY FISCUS 550 26 10 15 DARWIN WOLFGRAM 528
12 15 BOYD CALVERT 528 60 6 19 JIM FISCUS 487
13 7 A.J. FIKE 460 11 22 19 4 R RACING 457
14 19 RICK MUELLER 457 46 69 6 DON & MARIE FIKE 439
15 12 JOHNNY KOMPPA 433 9 12 12 JOHNNY KOMPPA 433
16 19 BRIAN CLAAS 430 51 20 19 WEISENSEL RACING 421
17 19 CODY WEISENSEL 421 72 99 19 BUTCH DAHLKE 419
18 8 KEVIN DOTY 339 23 50 8 BUD DOTY 339
19 12 NICK LUNDGREEN 322 18 40 13 WES CARNER 312
20 19 JOHN JONES 299 35 21 19 JONES MOTORSPORTS 299
21 18 BRIAN TERRY 296 31 69 18 TOM & TAMMY BONG 296
22 13 ROB KEELAN 295 29 17 12 ROB KEELAN 291
23 6 DEAN ERFURTH 200 41 75 12 SPEEDQUIP MOTORSPORTS 207
24 12 CRAIG CAREY 183 13 79 10 RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI 181
25 8 MIKE HEISS 177 14 63 6 PAUL PERKINS 180
26 8 KEVIN OLSON 160 13 0 12 MIKE HEISS 177
27 13 MIKE STROEHLE 159 18 44 13 AL COLE 155
28 13 AL COLE 155 20 30 3 CRAIG CAREY 134
29 12  MATT ESTEP 133 12 19 18 RICK IMHOFF 122
30 9 ROGER MILLER 123 18 6x 6 JIM FISCUS 111
31 18 RICK IMHOFF 122 2 8 18 LAVERNE ALTMANN 110
32 9 RON FREDENBERG 115 11 45 8 RON & BARB FREDENBERG 108
33 18 LANCE ALTMANN 110 15 93 11 KELLY JORDAN 104
34 12 RICK LABROSSE 104 19 9 7 BILL RIPP 97
35 8 KURT MAYHEW 92 15 21 8 KURT MAYHEW 92
36 11 KRIS HOEGSTED 85 18 97 11 MARY HOEGSTED 85
37 15 PAT JONES 80 4 65 4 LYLE CORRIGAN 83
38 4 GREG GRANATH 73 0 29 15 TONI MORGAN JONES 80
39 14 JON LeJEUNE 65 13 92 6 BRB SPECIALTIES 78
40 15 KEN DULL 48 7 56 17 KEN DULL 76
41 15 ED SAUER 44 13 24 4 GREG GRANATH 73
42 1 PAUL PERKINS 28 0 72 9 BRB SPECIALTIES 72
43 10 SCOTT ZANE 24 8 11x 1 WILKE-PAK MOTORSPORTS 69
44 6 RICH GIERTZ 10 1 34 14 JON LeJEUNE 65
45 2 DON CALLAHAN 8 6 66 3 GREG NELSON 56
46     0 0 77 11 SCOTT ZANE 56
47   2x 1 HARLIN KITTLESON 51
48   12 5 BOB DRETZKA 47
49   7x 2 JIM FISCUS 46
50   77 13 NORMAN SCHWARTZ 36
51   3x 2 LEROY WAELTI 33
52   15x 2 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 28
53   1 5 MIKE SROEEHLE 23
54   32 1 DON & MARIE FIKE 21
55   81x 3 JIM RAMOS 11
56   31 6 RICH GIERTZ 10
57   10x 1 DARWIN WOLFGRAM 10
58   95X 1 WISCO RACING 0
 

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