A.J. FIKE SCORES FIRST PRAIRIE WIN DAVEY RAY CLINCHES BADGER TITLE
SunPrairie, Wis, August 24---A.J. Fike scored a exciting victory in the 25-lap Badger Midget Series feature, Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway.
The win was his first ever at the facility. Davey Ray who finished second clinched the Badger Midget Series Drivers title. Ra-Jo/Wilke PAK Racing(Ralph Wilke, and Joe Vukovich) clinched the Car Owners title.
Randy Fiscus jumped into the lead at the start of the event. On the second
lap Critter Malone, Boyd Calvert, and Kevin Doty were involved in a hard crash on the front stretch. Doty's car caught fire from a major impact in the tail tank. The event was stopped Doty escaped injury.
Fiscus paced the event until the fifth lap, when he suffered electrical problems, and was forced to retire. Fike inherited the lead, and led a tightly bunched field. Fike led Ray by two car lengths at the midway point with Jerry Coons Jr. in third. Coons retired with a flat tire three laps later.
Ray challenged Fike several times, and trailed Fike by a car length with five laps remaining. A stalled car on the 23rd lap set up a two lap shootout. On the restart third place running Scott Hatton flipped, escaping injury. The final two laps Ray ran wheel to wheel with Fike. Fike finished 0.36 seconds ahead of Ray. Brandon Waelti, Cody Wisensel, and Don Droud Jr. rounded out the top five. Fike drove the Wisco Racing Stealth-Esslinger entry. Fike's brother Aaron the 2002 Badger Champ escaped injury in a wild flip in qualifying.
Ray's title comes 26 years after his father Dave's Badger Championship, making them the third father-son combination to win the Badger Championship.
The event capped off the weekend's events which included the National Midget Auto racing Hall of Fame Inductions. The 22nd annual Fireman's Nationals presented by Coca-Cola will be the season finale this Sunday at the facility.

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 81 DESELLE 14.983 1 LABROSSE 1 DESELLE 1 A.J.FIKE
2 3 WAELTI 15.010 2 GIERTZ 2 A.J.FIKE 2 RAY
3 2 DROUD 15.031 3 LUEBKE 3 MALONE 3 WAELTI
4 5 RAY 15.082 4 P.JONES 4 MEULLER 4 WEISENSEL
5 23 COONS 15.102 5 LEJEUNE 5 A.FISCUS 5 DROUD
6 22 MUELLER 15.113 HT 2 6 KEELAN 6 BOORSE
7 20 WEISENSEL 15.195 1 DROUD 7 HEISS 7 McCABE
8 7 A.FISCUS 15.231 2 DOTY 8 J.JONES 8 A.FISCUS
9 69 A.J.FIKE 15.239 3 SLOTTEN 9 CALLAHAN 9 KUHN
10 6 R.FISCUS 15.291 4 McCABE 10 HOEGSTED 10 MAYHEW
11 15 HATTON 15.305 5 SCOTT 11 P.JONES 11 SLOTTEN
12 10 SCOTT 15.318 HT 3 12 LEJEUNE 12 HATTON
13 7 MALONE 15.361 1 BOORSE 13 GIERTZ 13 KEELAN
14 88 BOORSE 15.380 2 HATTON 14 SAUER 14 COONS
15 20 McCABE 15.404 3 COONS 15 LABROSSE 15 DESELLE
16 0 HEISS 15.435 4 WAELTI 16 J.DULL 16 SCOTT
17 17 KEELAN 15.478 5 KUHN     17 R.FISCUS
18 50 DOTY 15.554 HT 4     18 MUELLER
19 19 CALVERT 15.613 1 RAY     19 MALONE
20 99 KUHN 15.643 2 MAYHEW     20 DOTY
21 69 SLOTTEN 15.674 3 CALVERT     21 CALVERT
22 21 MAYHEW 15.741 4 R.FISCUS     22 HEISS
23 21 J.JONES 15.743 5 WEISENSEL    
24 6x CALLAHAN 15.761 DASH    
25 93 LABROSSE 15.906 1 RAY    
26 43 LUEBKE 16.396 2 DROUD    
27 97 HOEGSTED 16.623 3 DESELLE    
28 29 P.JONES 16.626 4 WAELTI    
29 34 LEJEUNE 16.731 5 COONS    
30 31 GIERTZ 16.78 6 MUELLER    
31 56 J.DULL 17.09    
32 19 CALVERT 17.431      
33 63 A.FIKE NT        

 

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 8/24/2003
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS
1 DAVE RAY 1560 90 5 RAJO WILKE PAK 1455
2 DAN BOORSE 1302 58 88 DON BOORSE 1302
3 SCOTT HATTON 1153 40 15 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 1130
4 CHAD DESELLE 1147 30 2 HARLIN KITTLESON 1066
5 AARON FISCUS 1043 52 7 JIM FISCUS 1043
6 AARON FIKE 935 68 23 KARL WARNKE 854
7 BRANDON WAELTI 876 51 20 HOT ROD MOTORSPORTS 826
8 BOYD CALVERT 851 35 3 LEROY WAELTI & SCHULENBERG 799
9 QUINN McCABE 826 38 99 BUTCH DAHLKE 741
10 BRAD KUHN 810 53 82 GLEN WINDSTRUP 688
11 RANDY FISCUS 762 17 22 MUELLER RACING 666
12 DAVID GOUGH 688 17 51 HESS RACING ENTERPRISES 665
13 RICK MUELLER 666 19 40 WES CARNER 662
14 MIKE HESS 665 14 6 JIM FISCUS 645
15 NICK LUNDGREEN 662 65 95 WISCO RACING 634
16 ROB KEELAN 588 41 17 ROB KEELAN 588
17 JOHN JONES 583 61 21 JONES MOTORSPORTS 583
18 CORY KRUSEMAN 536 30          2x HARLIN KITTLESON 579
19 A.J.FIKE 442 8 69 WISCO RACING 442
20 MIKE HEISS 427 10 0 MIKE HEISS 427
21 TRACY HINES 414 17 57 RANDY REISDORF 426
22 RANDY KOCH 401 16 19 PAT GEHLER 420
23 HARLEY SLOTTEN 393 43 11 WILKE PAK MOTORSPORTS 414
24 KURT MAYHEW 389 20 21 KURT MAYHEW 389
25 BUDDY LUEBKE 384 43 43 JB MOTORSPORTS 384
26 PATRICK JONES 324 7 69 TOM & TAMMY BONG 380
27 CODY WEISENSEL 323 12 20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 363
28 LANCE ALTMANN 288 28 81 RENEE & ADRIAE DESELLE 354
29 KRIS HOEGSTED 286 27 29 TONI MORGAN JONES 324
30 DEAN ERFURTH 261 16 31 RICH GIERTZ 314
31 CHRIS MALONE 247 11 8 LAVERNE ALTMANN 288
32 RICH GIERTZ 244 9 97 MARY HOEGSTED 286
33 RICK LABROSSE 229 9 56 KEN DULL 275
34 KEN DULL 205 5 79 RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI 269
35 KEVIN OLSON 180 4 7 CHRIS MALONE 247
36 RICK IMHOFF 159 10 93 DEBBIE LABROSSE 229
37 CRAIG CAREY 143 1 32 DON FIKE 201
38 KEVIN DOTY 143 14 75 SPEED QUIP MOTORSPORTS 156
39 BRIAN TERRY 106 3 30 CRAIG CAREY 143
40 ED SAUER 75 0           6x JIM FISCUS 135
41 JON LeJEUNE 72 7 4 DON GILHAM 106
42 MIKE STROEHLE 44 0           7x JIM FISCUS 77
43 JEFF FLESHER 43 0 96 ED SAUER 75
44 JASON DULL 35 1 34 JON LeJEUNE 72
45 ROGER MILLER 25 0 50 BUD DOTY 70
46 AL COLE 23 1 9 BILL RIPP 44
47 PAT HENSEN 16 4 72 JEFF FLESHER 43
48 ROD MUELLER 5 0 44 AL COLE 23
49 ALEX COONAN 0 0 92 PAT HENSEN 16
50 22x MUELLER RACING 5
51 94 ALEX COONAN 0
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