Hatton Captures Badger Midget Opener

By Bryan Gapinski, Sun Prairie, Wis., May 16--Scott Hatton captured the 50-lap Badger Midget Series season opener Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. The event marked the start of the 68th year of racing for the Badger, the oldest active sanctioning organization in midget auto racing.
Pole sitter Aaron Fiscus paced the intinial lap before Brandon Waelti took over the lead. Kevin Doty running second was closing on Waelti when he spun on the sixth lap, moving Doty to the tail. Doty began moving back to the front on the restart.
Defending series champion Davey Ray suffered a flat tire on the tenth lap bringing out the caution, and retired from the event. Waelti maintained his lead over Hatton despite two more caution flags before lap 20 when Fiscus flipped. Fiscus escaped injury in the accident.
Hatton shadowed Waelti before moving into the lead on the backstretch on the 27th lap. Cody Wisensel flipped one lap later. On the restart Hatton paced the field easily before fast qualifier Josh Wise moved into second, on the 32nd lap. Hatton maintained his advantage over Wise for the remainder of the distance despite heavy lapped traffic. Hatton driving the Huston Solution Racing Stealth-Mopar finished with a 3.24 second advantage. Doty who passed 18 cars after his early race spin finished third. Waelti, and Chad DeSelle rounded out the top five. Hatton holds a 28 point lead heading into the next series event at the facility on May 23.

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 2 WISE 14.420 1 DOTY 1 WISE 1 HATTON
2 30 CAREY 14.458 2 KUHN 2 KOCH 2 WISE
3 99 KUHN 14.489 3 BRANSON 3 CALVERT 3 DOTY
4 15 HATTON 14.516 4 HESS 4 WEISENSEL 4 WAELTI
5 5 RAY 14.543 5 J.JONES 5 LUEBKE 5 DESELLE
6 51 HESS 14.604 HT 2 6 SHREFFLER 6 CALVERT
7 57 KOCH 14.656 1 SLOTTEN 7 ALTMANN 7 HESS
8 82 GOUGH 14.673 2 RAY 8 P.JONES 8 J.JONES
9 50 DOTY 14.71 3 GOUGH 9 CAREY 9 GOUGH
10 3 WAELTI 14.738 4 FISCUS 10 WOOD 10 BRANSON
11 7 FISCUS 14.828 5 CALLAHAN     11 TERRY
12 20 WEISENSEL 14.923 HT 3     12 LUEBKE
13 81 DESELLE 14.938 1 WAELTI     13 ALTMANN
14 40 KENDALL 14.967 2 HATTON     14 CALLAHAN
15 21 J.JONES 15.112 3 DESELLE     15 WEISENSEL
16 4 TERRY 15.115 4 LABROSSE     16 KUHN
17 87 SLOTTEN 15.124 5 TERRY     17 FISCUS
18 19 CALVERT 15.131       18 LABROSSE
19 93 LABROSSE 15.134         19 KOCH
20 6 CALLAHAN 15.136         20 SLOTTEN
21 71 BRANSON 15.246         21 RAY
22 29 P.JONES 15.53 DASH     22 SHREFFLER
23 43 LUEBKE 15.844 1 HATTON    
24 21 SCHREFFLER 15.856 2 RAY    
25 14 WOOD 15.879 3 KUHN    
26 10 LETHERBERRY 15.895 4 HESS    
27 8 ALTMANN 16.01 5 WISE    
28 7x FISCUS NT 6 CAREY    

 

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 5/16/2004
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS
1 SCOTT HATTON 120 7 15 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 120
2 JOSH WISE 96 8 2 HANS LEIN 96
3  KEVIN DOTY 92 0 50 BUD DOTY 92
4 BRANDON WAELTI 81 0 3 LEROY WAELTI & SCHULENBERG 81
5 CHAD DESELLE 64 6 51 HESS RACING ENTERPRISES 64
6 MIKE HESS 64 0 81 RENEE & ADRIAE DESELLE 64
7 BRAD KUHN 55 0 99 BUTCH DAHLKE 55
8 DAVID GOUGH 55 0 82 GLEN WINDSTRUP 55
9 DAVE RAY 50 0 5 RAJO WILKE PAK 50
10 JOHN JONES 49 11 71 CHAD BRANSON 49
11 CHAD BRANSON 49 7 21 JONES MOTORSPORTS 49
12 BOYD CALVERT 48 9 19 PAT GEHLER 48
13 BRIAN TERRY 43 2 4 DON GILHAM 43
14 HARLEY SLOTTEN 38 0 87 TOM & TAMMY BONG 38
15 DON CALLAHAN 37 7 6 JIM FISCUS 37
16 BUDDY LUEBKE 36 6 43 JB MOTORSPORTS 36
17 AARON FISCUS 34 0 7 JIM FISCUS 34
18 LANCE ALTMANN 34 7 8 LAVERNE ALTMANN 34
19  RICK LABROSSE 33 0 93 DEBBIE LABROSSE 33
20 CRAIG CAREY 31 0 31 CRAIG CAREY 31
21 RANDY KOCH 30 0 57 RANDY REISDORF 30
22 CODY WEISENSEL 30 7 10 GREG LEATHERBERRY 30
23 BOB SHREFFLER 22 0 21 BOB SHREFFLER 22
24 PATRICK JONES 20 0 29 TONI MORGAN JONES 20
25 BILLY WOOD JR 16 0 14 AL CHRISTOFFER 16
26 GREG LEATHERBERRY 0 0 40 WES CARNER 0
27 MICHAEL KENDALL 0 0 20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 0

 

 

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