Hatton Continues Badger Dominance
By Bryan Gapinski
Sun Prairie, Wis., July 18---Scott Hatton continued his dominating season capturing the 25-lap Badger Midget Series Feature. The win was his fourth of the season victory of the season. Hatton has finishes of second, third, and sixth in the three features he has failed to win this season.
Five cautions slowed the first eleven laps, with David Gough pacing the opening lap before Randy Koch moved into third. Hatton quickly moved from his ninth place starting position. On the sixth lap Hatton passed Dan Boorse for second place, and one lap later moved around Koch entering the third turn. On the tenth lap attention turned to Mike Hess who started in 19th
position, and moved into seventh spot.
John Jones escaped injury in a flip on the 13th lap. On the restart Hatton easily pulled away from the field, while Hess charged past four more cars in the next two laps. Hatton driving the Huston
Solution Racing/Stealth-Mopar spent the final five laps of the event lapping slower cars, and finished 4.12 seconds ahead of Brandon Waelti, Hess, Koch, and A.J. Fike. Hatton holds a 164 point lead over Davey Ray heading into the July 25 event at the
facility.
Tate Martz won the 30-lap USAC Ford Focus Midwest series feature taking the lead on the 14th lap. Following Martz were: Brad Loyet, Rex Norris III, Mike Palmer, and Brandon Hartsell.
| QUAL | HT 1 | B-FT | A-FT | ||||||
| 1 | 99 | KUHN | 14.938 | 1 | COONAN | 1 | KOCH | 1 | HATTON |
| 2 | 15 | HATTON | 15.009 | 2 | WOOD | 2 | STRATTON | 2 | WAELTI |
| 3 | 81 | DESELLE | 15.090 | 3 | PERKINS | 3 | J.JONES | 3 | HESS |
| 4 | 3 | WAELTI | 15.162 | 4 | SCHREFFLER | 4 | C.BRANSON | 4 | KOCH |
| 5 | 88 | BOORSE | 15.258 | 5 | R.BRANSON | 5 | DROUD | 5 | FIKE |
| 6 | 19 | CALVERT | 15.287 | HT 2 | 6 | WOOD | 6 | DROUD | |
| 7 | 32 | FIKE | 15.344 | 1 | DESELLE | 7 | SCHREFFLER | 7 | KUHN |
| 8 | 20 | WEISENSEL | 15.36 | 2 | ERFURTH | 8 | COONAN | 8 | STANFILL |
| 9 | 57 | KOCH | 15.507 | 3 | P.JONES | 9 | LUEBKE | 9 | ERFURTH |
| 10 | 2 | STRATTON | 15.546 | 4 | FISCUS | 10 | MAYHEW | 10 | STRATTON |
| 11 | 82 | GOUGH | 15.573 | 5 | TERRY | 11 | R.BRANSON | 11 | FORBES |
| 12 | 7 | FISCUS | 15.587 | HT 3 | 12 | PERKINS | 12 | SLOTTEN | |
| 13 | 23 | STANFILL | 15.587 | 1 | HATTON | 13 | DULL | 13 | FISCUS |
| 14 | 21 | J.JONES | 15.628 | 2 | HESS | 14 | SAUER | 14 | WOOD |
| 15 | 79 | ERFURTH | 15.657 | 3 | BOORSE | 15 | WEISENSEL | 15 | TERRY |
| 16 | 22 | DROUD | 15.690 | 4 | GOUGH | 16 | LEJEUNE | 16 | P.JONES |
| 17 | 87 | SLOTTEN | 15.831 | 5 | SLOTTEN | 17 | J.JONES | ||
| 18 | 21 | MAYHEW | 15.837 | HT 4 | 18 | GOUGH | |||
| 19 | 71 | C.BRANSON | 15.945 | 1 | WAELTI | 19 | C.BRANSON | ||
| 20 | 43 | LUEBKE | 15.953 | 2 | STANFILL | 20 | BOORSE | ||
| 21 | 29 | P.JONES | 16.033 | 3 | KUHN | 21 | DESELLE | ||
| 22 | 95 | FORBES | 16.068 | 4 | FIKE | 22 | SCHREFFLER | ||
| 23 | 6 | HESS | 16.137 | 5 | FORBES | ||||
| 24 | 4 | TERRY | 16.192 | DASH | |||||
| 25 | 14 | WOOD | 16.383 | 1 | DESELLE | ||||
| 26 | 21 | SCHREFFLER | 16.404 | 2 | HATTON | ||||
| 27 | 63 | PERKINS | 16.565 | 3 | WAELTI | ||||
| 28 | 59 | R.BRANSON | 16.608 | 4 | KUHN | ||||
| 29 | 81X | COONAN | 15.652 | 5 | BOORSE | ||||
| 30 | 56 | DULL | 16.957 | 6 | CALVERT | ||||
| 31 | 74 | SAUER | 17.610 | ||||||
| 32 | 34 | LEJUENE | NT |
| BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 7/18/2004 | ||||||
| POSITION, | DRIVER, | POINTS, | PASS PTS, | CAR #, | OWNER, | POINTS |
| 1 | SCOTT HATTON | 753 | 38 | 15 | HUSTON SOLUTION RACING | 753 |
| 2 | DAVE RAY | 589 | 19 | 81 | RENEE & ADRIANNE DESELLE | 503 |
| 3 | CHAD DESELLE | 503 | 10 | 23 | KARL WARNKE | 493 |
| 4 | BRANDON WAELTI | 442 | 6 | 5 | RAJO WILKE PAK | 485 |
| 5 | KEVIN DOTY | 381 | 14 | 3 | LEROY WAELTI & SCHULENBERG | 442 |
| 6 | BRAD KUHN | 374 | 14 | 99 | BUTCH DAHLKE | 374 |
| 7 | DAVID GOUGH | 321 | 0 | 82 | GLEN WINDSTRUP | 321 |
| 8 | AARON FISCUS | 300 | 16 | 50 | BUD DOTY | 304 |
| 9 | RANDY KOCH | 286 | 10 | 57 | RANDY REISDORF | 286 |
| 10 | JOHN JONES | 265 | 38 | 21 | JONES MOTORSPORTS | 265 |
| 11 | MIKE HESS | 242 | 27 | 7 | JIM FISCUS | 259 |
| 12 | BRIAN TERRY | 199 | 12 | 2 | HANS LEIN | 247 |
| 13 | HARLEY SLOTTEN | 199 | 5 | 87 | TOM & TAMMY BONG | 231 |
| 14 | BOYD CALVERT | 198 | 9 | 4 | DON GILHAM | 199 |
| 15 | CODY WEISENSEL | 187 | 7 | 19 | PAT GEHLER | 198 |
| 16 | CRAIG CAREY | 167 | 30 | 22 | MUELLER RACING | 189 |
| 17 | ALEX COONAN | 155 | 11 | 6 | JIM FISCUS | 172 |
| 18 | BILLY WOOD JR | 153 | 11 | 71 | CHAD BRANSON | 159 |
| 19 | BUDDY LUEBKE | 145 | 8 | 20 | KEVIN WEISENSEL | 157 |
| 20 | BOB SHREFFLER | 143 | 2 | 81X | RENEE & ADRIAE DESELLE | 155 |
| 21 | MICHAEL KENDALL | 130 | 9 | 43 | JB MOTORSPORTS | 145 |
| 22 | RICK LABROSSE | 130 | 1 | 21 | BOB SHREFFLER | 143 |
| 23 | A.J.FIKE | 124 | 5 | 14 | AL CHRISTOFFER | 141 |
| 24 | CHAD BRANSON | 116 | 7 | 40 | WES CARNER | 130 |
| 25 | LANCE ALTMANN | 106 | 14 | 93 | DEBBIE LABROSSE | 130 |
| 26 | MIKE KERTSCHER | 92 | 5 | 30 | CRAIG CAREY | 129 |
| 27 | ADAM CLARKE | 80 | 0 | 7X | JIM FISCUS | 126 |
| 28 | PATRICK JONES | 80 | 2 | 32 | DON FOKE | 124 |
| 29 | ROB KEELAN | 71 | 0 | 29 | TONI MORGAN JONES | 118 |
| 30 | DEAN ERFURTH | 54 | 4 | 8 | LAVERNE ALTMANN | 106 |
| 31 | MIKE HEISS | 49 | 2 | 11 | GREG WILKE | 104 |
| 32 | ED SAUER | 46 | 0 | 4 | AL CHRISTOFFER | 81 |
| 33 | DAN BOORSE | 44 | 0 | 17 | ROB KEELAN | 71 |
| 34 | RICK MUELLER | 43 | 0 | 51 | HESS RACING ENTERPRISES | 69 |
| 35 | DON CALLAHAN | 37 | 7 | 79 | RANDY POLEWCZYSKI | 54 |
| 36 | JASON DULL | 36 | 1 | 0 | MIKE HEISS | 49 |
| 37 | PAUL PERKINS | 23 | 0 | 10 | GREG LEATHERBERRY | 46 |
| 38 | GREG LEATHERBERRY | 16 | 0 | 74 | ED SAUER | 46 |
| 39 | KURT MAYHEW | 16 | 0 | 88 | DON BOORSE | 44 |
| 40 | JON LEJEUNE | 10 | 0 | 56 | JASON DULL | 36 |
| 41 | 63 | PAUL PERKINS | 23 | |||
| 42 | 21 | KURT MAYHEW | 16 | |||
| 43 | 34 | JON LEJEUNE | 10 |