Win Clinches Badger Title for Hatton

JEFF ARNS PHOTO

By Bryan Gapinski Sun Prairie, Wis., Aug. 21 - Scott Hatton clinched the 2005 Badger Midget Auto Racing Association season championship by winning the 50-lap feature Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. The title is Hatton's third career, allowing him to join a group of five other drivers with three driving championships or more in the organizations 69-year history. Hattons becomes the first driver since Dan Boorse (1998-99) to win back-to-back series championships. 
Chad DeSelle jumped into the lead at the start, while Hatton passed five cars in the first four laps to move into second place. A stalled car on lap seven bunched up the field. On the restart Hatton shadowed DeSelle passing him for the lead as the pair exited turn two on the lap 9. 
Once in the lead Hatton stretched his lead, only to see cautions on laps 14 and 25 erase his two second-plus advantages. The final half of the race saw Hatton lapping the tail of the field, and maintaining his lead over DeSelle, as the two pulled away from the field. Hatton driving the Huston Solution Racing Stealth/Mopar#15 finished 1.577 seconds ahead of DeSelle for his seventh series feature victory of the season. Brandon Waelti, Nick Lundgreen and Rick Mueller completed the top five. 
Two races remain on the Badger schedule both at Angell ParkSpeedway. Sunday Night Aug. 28 will be the 5th annual Hall of Fame Midget Classic, and on Sep. 4 the 24th annual Fireman's Nationals presented by Pepsi.

 

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 74 KUHN 14.958 1 McMURTRY 1 LUNDGREEN 1 HATTON
2 2 STRATTON 14.979 2 SHREFFLER 2 LIGHT 2 DESELLE
3 3 WAELTI 14.995 3 SOMMERFELD 3 MAYHEW 3 WAELTI
4 5 RAY 14.995 4 HOEGSTED 4 QUINN 4 LUNGREEN
5 15 HATTON 15.067 5 DULL 5 WALTER 5 MUELLER
6 43NZ QUINN 15.081 HT 2 6 SHREFFLER 6 WEISENSEL
7 10 LUECKERT 15.199 1 WAELTI 7 SOMMERFELD 7 LIGHT
8 99 WEISENSEL 15.22 2 KEELAN 8 LeJEUNE 8 QUINN
9 93 LAROSSE 15.229 3 FORBES 9 HOEGSTED 9 LUECKERT
10 8X PANKRATZ 15.234 4 MUELLER 10 LUEBKE 10 LABROSSE
11 6 DESELLE 15.237 5 LABROSSE 11 JORDAN 11 FORBES
12 21K MAYHEW 15.297 HT 3 12 FISCUS 12 MAYHEW
13 19 STROEHLE 15.301 1 DESELLE 13 RAMSTACK 13 KEELAN
14 40 LUNGREEN 15.302 2 HATTON 14 DULL 14 SHREFFLER
15 22 MUELLER 15.377 3 STRATTON 15 McMURTRY 15 WALTERS
16 34 LeJEUNE 15.385 4 SLOTTEN     16 STROEHLE
17 4 LIGHT 15.425 5 WEISENSEL     17 PANKRATZ
18 02 RAMSTACK 15.507 HT 4     18 SOMMERFELD
19 5W WALTERS 15.52 1 KUHN     19 STRATTON
20 87 SLOTTEN 15.522 2 BREWER     20 BREWER
21 17 KEELAN 15.538 3 STROEHLE     21 KUHN
22 96 BREWER 15.577 4 LUECKERT     22 SLOTTEN
23 7 FISCUS 15.614 5 PANKRATZ        
24 95J FORBES 15.635 DASH    
25 49 SOMMERFELD 15.714 1 KUHN    
26 43 LUEBKE 15.812 2 RAY    
27 97 HOEGSTED 15.848 3 HATTON    
28 87X DULL 16.027 4 WAELTI    
29 8 JORDAN 16.062 5 STRATTON    
30 6X McMURTRY 16.116 6 QUINN    
31 21S SHREFFLER NT    
32 99X DULL NT      

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 8/21/05
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 SCOTT HATTON 1734 87 15 DWIGHT HUSTON 1591
2 DANNY STRATTON 1459 46 2 HANS LEIN 1441
3 BRANDON WAELTI 1424 70 5 RAJO WILKE PAK 1410
4 BRAD KUHN 1346 67 74 BRAD KUHN 1346
5 DAVEY RAY 1341 51 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 1304
6 CHAD DESELLE 1113 57 6 JIM FISCUS 1073
7 RICK MUELLER 948 40 22 MUELLER RACING 948
8 NICK LUNDGREEN 791 32 40 WES CARNER 791
9 AARON FISCUS 723 60 7 JIM FISCUS 654
10 HARLEY SLOTTEN 618 7 87 TOM & TAMMY BONG 653
11 RICK LABROSSE 594 24 93 DEBBIE LABROSSE 594
12 BOB SHREFFLER 563 32 21 BERNIE SHREFFLER 563
13 DAN BOORSE 558 33 88 DON BOORSE 558
14 KEVIN DOTY 551 60 23 KARL WARNKE 549
15 JERRY COONS JR 549 32 21 KURT MAYHEW 490
16 CODY WEISENSEL 546 1 43 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 458
17 KURT MAYHEW 490 20 43 MICHAEL QUIN 456
18 JIMI QUIN 478 0 02 BRIAN RAMSTACK 453
19 BUDDY LUEBKE 458 24 59 KELLY JORDAN 434
20 BRIAN RAMSTACK   ** 453 19 17 ROB KEELAN 431
21 ROB KEELAN 441 20 99 BUTCH DAHLKE 396
22 JEFF FLESHER 434 82 20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 384
23 CRAIG CAREY 377 0 30 BK MOTORSPORTS 372
24 BRYON WALTERS 327 23 5 BRYON WALTERS 327
25 DAVID GOUGH 319 31 1au HAWK RACING 317
26 MICHAEL PICKENS 283 12 50 BUD DOTY 315
27 JOHN JONES 279 22 57 RANDY REISDORF 295
28 BRIAN CLAAS 244 15 21 JONES MOTORSPORTS 279
29 JON LEJEUNE 233 10 34 JON LEJEUNE 233
30 JIMMY LIGHT 208 29 6H JIM FISCUS 208
31 JASON DULL 193 5 4 JIMMY LIGHT 208
32 CHAD DREHER    ** 171 17 99x BUTCH DAHLKE 188
33 NICK SOMMERFELD  ** 170 18 97 MARY HOEGSTED 186
34 PATRICK JONES 149 6 18 CHAD DREHER 171
35 KRIS HOEGSTED 148 13 56 KEN DULL 162
36 MIKE STROEHLE 143 13 2X HANS LEIN 161
37 DOUG JORDAN  ** 118 5 29 TONI MORGAN-JONES 149
38 KEVIN OLSON 107 0 39 LEE BECKWITH 134
39 EDDIE SAUER  95 3 79 RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI 131
40 LEE BECKWITH   ** 94 7 82 GLEN WINDSTRUP 130
41 ALEX COONAN 85 4 8 DOUG JORDAN 118
42 MIKE HEISS 85 8 87X TOM & TAMMY BONG 117
43 MIKE DIBARK 74 1 9 PAT SOMMERFELD 114
44 PAUL PERKINS 59 0 96 EDDIE SAUER 95
45 KEN DULL 49 8 19 PAT GEHLER-RICK IMHOFF 92
46 A.J. FIKE 30 0 5X WILKE PAK 89
47 BOBBY GUESS 28 6 94 AMANDA COONAN 85
48 DEAN ERFURTH 19 0 0 MIKE HEISS 85
49 11 WILKE PAK 82
50 23 STEPHANIE MEENTS 74
51

** ROOKIE

 63 PAUL/ANGIE PERKINS 59
52 99 BOB GUESS 28
53 9x BUTCH DAHLKE 19
 

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