Hatton caps off championship season with National victory
By Bryan Gapinski Sun Prairie, WIs., Sep. 5 - Scott Hatton finished off his second straight Badger Midget Series Championship season with a victory in the 24th annual Fireman's Nationals presented by Pepsi. The victory for Hatton allowed him to become the fifth multi-time winner of the event.
The event got off to a rocky start when Jeff Flesher flipped on the opening lap escaping injury setting up a complete restart. Danny Stratton quickly moved from fourth to the lead by completion of the first lap. Stratton held an incredible straightaway lead at the conclusion of lap four when second place Darren Hagen stalled on the track.
On the restart Hatton lined up second behind Stratton. Stratton again pulled away from the field and enjoyed a two second advantage when he began lapping the tail of the field on the 12th lap. Hatton and Brad Kuhn were waging an excellent battle for second when the event was stopped to a dramatic fire in Bryan Clauson's car.
Stratton, Hatton and Kuhn pulled away from the field on the restart. Hatton shadowed Stratton until the 34th lap when he drove under Stratton for the lead entering turn one. Once in the lead Hatton maintained a two car length-plus advantage over Stratton and Kuhn for the remainder of the race. The leaders spent the final ten laps in heavy lapped traffic. Hatton driving the Huston Solution Racing Stealth-Mopar finished 0.665 seconds ahead of Stratton, followed by Kuhn, fast qualifier Brandon Waelti and Aaron Fiscus. 
The field received the checkered flag on lap 49, one short of the scheduled distance, and ran the final lap under caution as a tribute to Kevin Doty. Doty whose car number was 50, had won the event a record five times, died of injuries last month from a Aug. 14 crash at the track. Hatton and his car owner Dwight Huston leads the list of honorees for the series awards banquet slated for Saturday Night Nov. 12 at the Angell Park Pavilion.

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 3 WAELTI 14.813 1 WIPPERFURTH 1 STRATTON 1 HATTON
2 74 KUHN 14.841 2 HOEGSTED 2 WAELTI 2 STRATTON
3 13 PICKENS 14.921 3 KUHN 3 STROEHLE 3 KUHN
4 71X CLAUSON 14.946 4 ADAMS 4 FLESHER 4 WAELTI
5 15 HATTON 15.015 5 CLAUSON 5 HAGEN 5 FISCUS
6 17K ADAMS 15.092 HT 2 6 OLSON 6 DESELLE
7 2 STRATTON 15.110 1 QUINN 7 SLOTTEN 7 LUECKERT
8 71 HAGEN 15.125 2 LUECKERT 8 WALTERS 8 MUELLER
9 10 LUECKERT 15.207 3 PICKENS 9 KEELAN 9 ADAMS
10 19 STROEHLE 15.227 4 PERKINS 10 RAMSTACK 10 LIGHT
11 22 MUELLER 15.229 5 ADAMS 11 MAYHEW 11 QUINN
12 43NZ QUINN 15.253 HT 3 12 HOEGSTED 12 OLSON
13 99 WEISENSEL 15.285 1 DESELLE 13 CALLAHAN 13 LABROSSE
14 7 OLSON 15.299 2 KUHN 14 JORDAN 14 SHREFFLER
15 5W WALTERS 15.315 3 SHREFFLER 15 WIPERFURTH 15 PERKINS
16 88 FISCUS 15.335 4 MUELLER 16 SAUER 16 PICKENS
17 6 DESELLE 15.345 5 HATTON 17 K.DULL 17 SLOTTEN
18 87 SLOTTEN 15.352 HT 4 18 J.DULL 18 WEISENSEL
19 93 LABROSSE 15.358 1 LABROSSE 19 JONES 19 CLAUSON
20 21S SHREFFLER 15.371 2 FISCUS     20 HAGEN
21 40 FLESHER 15.418 3 LIGHT     21 STROEHLE
22 4 LIGHT 15.488 4 CLAUSON     22 FLESHER
23 21K MAYHEW 15.489 5 WEISENSEL        
24 63 PERKINS 15.596 DASH    
25 02 RAMSTACK 15.619 1 HATTON  
26 17 KEELAN 15.679 2 PICKENS    
27 87X J.DULL 15.763 3 WAELTI    
28 6X CALLAHAN 15.765 4 KUHN    
29 29 JONES 15.883 5 ADAMS    
30 97 HOEGSTED 16.037 6 CLAUSON    
31 8 JORDAN 16.285    
32 9X WIPPERFURTH 16.514      
33 96 SAUER 16.538        
34 56 K.DULL 16.863        
35 43 LUEBKE NT        

 

FINAL 2005 BMARA POINTS STANDINGS 
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 SCOTT HATTON 1915 100 15 DWIGHT HUSTON 1772
2 DANNY STRATTON 1647 51 2 HANS LEIN 1629
3 BRANDON WAELTI 1579 77 74 BRAD KUHN 1557
4 BRAD KUHN 1557 79 5 RAJO WILKE PAK 1463
5 DAVEY RAY 1394 54 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 1459
6 CHAD DESELLE 1219 70 6 JIM FISCUS 1179
7 RICK MUELLER 1041 47 22 MUELLER RACING 1041
8 AARON FISCUS 835 77 40 WES CARNER 839
9 NICK LUNDGREEN 819 32 7 JIM FISCUS 735
10 HARLEY SLOTTEN 687 7 87 TOM & TAMMY BONG 722
11 RICK LABROSSE 673 29 93 DEBBIE LABROSSE 673
12 BOB SHREFFLER 629 38 21 BERNIE SHREFFLER 629
13 CODY WEISENSEL 623 3 88 DON BOORSE 625
14 JERRY COONS JR 618 32 23 KARL WARNKE 618
15 JIMI QUIN 584 13 43 MICHAEL QUIN 562
16 DAN BOORSE 558 33 21 KURT MAYHEW 546
17 KEVIN DOTY 551 60 17 ROB KEELAN 499
18 KURT MAYHEW 546 20 43 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 480
19 ROB KEELAN 499 22 02 BRIAN RAMSTACK 480
20 BUDDY LUEBKE 480 25 99 BUTCH DAHLKE 473
21 BRIAN RAMSTACK   ** 480 19 59 KELLY JORDAN 434
22 JEFF FLESHER 454 82 20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 384
23 CRAIG CAREY 377 0 30 BK MOTORSPORTS 372
24 BRYON WALTERS 347 23 5 BRYON WALTERS 347
25 MICHAEL PICKENS 337 12 1au HAWK RACING 317
26 DAVID GOUGH 319 31 50 BUD DOTY 315
27 JIMMY LIGHT 285 48 57 RANDY REISDORF 295
28 JOHN JONES 279 22 4 JIMMY LIGHT 285
29 BRIAN CLAAS 244 15 21 JONES MOTORSPORTS 279
30 JON LEJEUNE 233 10 34 JON LEJEUNE 233
31 MIKE STROEHLE 204 18 97 MARY HOEGSTED 233
32 JASON DULL 201 5 6H JIM FISCUS 230
33 KRIS HOEGSTED 195 19 99x BUTCH DAHLKE 206
34 PATRICK JONES 181 6 11 WILKE PAK 187
35 CHAD DREHER    ** 171 17 18 CHAD DREHER 171
36 NICK SOMMERFELD  ** 170 18 56 KEN DULL 171
37 DOUG JORDAN  ** 148 7 29 TONI MORGAN-JONES 163
38 KEVIN OLSON 143 2 2X HANS LEIN 161
39 EDDIE SAUER  120 6 19 PAT GEHLER-RICK IMHOFF 153
40 MIKE HEISS 105 8 8 DOUG JORDAN 148
41 PAUL PERKINS 96 7 39 LEE BECKWITH 134
42 LEE BECKWITH   ** 94 7 79 RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI 131
43 ALEX COONAN 85 4 82 GLEN WINDSTRUP 130
44 MIKE DIBARK 74 1 87X TOM & TAMMY BONG 125
45 KEN DULL 58 10 96 EDDIE SAUER 120
46 A.J. FIKE 30 0 9 PAT SOMMERFELD 114
47 BOBBY GUESS 28 6 0 MIKE HEISS 105
48 DEAN ERFURTH 19 0 63 PAUL/ANGIE PERKINS 96
49 5X WILKE PAK 89
50 94 AMANDA COONAN 85
51 23 STEPHANIE MEENTS 74
52 9x BUTCH DAHLKE 44
53 99 BOB GUESS 28
 

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