Kuhn opens title defense with Angell Park victory
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PHOTO BY JEFF ARNS |
By Bryan Gapinski, Sun Prairie, Wis., May
20---Defending series champion Brad Kuhn won the season opening Badger Midget Series feature Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. The event kicked off the 71st year of sanctioning midget auto racing for the organization, oldest in the country.
Aaron Fiscus jumped into the lead at the start of the feature, and held a three car length lead when the first caution appeared on lap seven for a stalled car. Kuhn moved into second place on the tenth lap, when third place running Scott Hatton stopped on the track. Kuhn shadowed Fiscus on the restart taking the lead as the pair exited turn four on the 13th lap.
Kuhn held a near three-second lead at the midway point and began lapping slower cars. Fiscus maintained second place as five cars fought a tight battle for second place. Doug Schenck escaped injury on the 31st lap flipping after hitting the backstretch wall. Third place running A.J. Fike stalled the following lap. On the restart Michael Pickens running in the top five made contact with another flipping violently into the first turn catch fence.
On the restart former series champion Davey Ray running third jumped the cushion and flipped. Due to curfew regulations the event was not restarted with Kuhn driving the Michael Quin Stealth/Mopar#43NZ being awarded the victory. Fiscus, Brad Loyet, Danny Stratton and Mike Hess completed the top five, with only half of the starting field of 22 cars finishing the scheduled 50-lap event. Another 50-lap event is scheduled for Sunday May 27 at Angell Park Speedway, with the following day as a raindate.
| QUAL | HT 1 | B-FT | A-FT | ||||||
| 1 | 5 | COONS | 14.674 | 1 | D.RAY | 1 | LUNDGREEN | 1 | KUHN |
| 2 | 05 | LOYETT | 14.823 | 2 | STRATTON | 2 | SLOTTEN | 2 | FISCUS |
| 3 | 15 | HATTON | 14.842 | 3 | DURST | 3 | DESELLE | 3 | LOYETT |
| 4 | 33 | D.RAY | 14.913 | 4 | HESS | 4 | WIPPERFURTH | 4 | STRATTON |
| 5 | 12 | SLOTTEN | 14.914 | 5 | WIPPERFURTH | 5 | RAMSTACK | 5 | HESS |
| 6 | 69 | FIKE | 14.934 | HT 2 | 6 | WALTERS | 6 | DESELLE | |
| 7 | 3 | WAELTI | 14.963 | 1 | HATTON | 7 | KEELAN | 7 | COONS |
| 8 | 91 | DURST | 14.922 | 2 | SCHENCK | 8 | DULL | 8 | SLOTTEN |
| 9 | 7 | FISCUS | 15.036 | 3 | WAELTI | 9 | NOBLE | 9 | WAELTI |
| 10 | 43NZ | KUHN | 15.110 | 4 | GOUGH | 10 | R.RAY | 10 | D.RAY |
| 11 | 19 | SCHENCK | 15.124 | 5 | MAYHEW | 11 | LUEBKE | 11 | GOUGH |
| 12 | 44 | HESS | 15.156 | HT 3 | 12 | MECUM | 12 | RAMSTACK | |
| 13 | 1AU | PICKENS | 15.178 | 1 | SHREFFLER | 13 | WYTTENBACK | 13 | FIKE |
| 14 | 41 | LUNDGREEN | 15.250 | 2 | FIKE | 14 | MAYHEW | 14 | PICKENS |
| 15 | 6 | DESELLE | 15.274 | 3 | KUHN | 15 | SCHENCK | ||
| 16 | 4 | WIPPERFURTH | 15.472 | 4 | LOYETT | 16 | WIPPERFURTH | ||
| 17 | 9 | NOBLE | 15.582 | 5 | LUNDGREEN | 17 | WALTERS | ||
| 18 | 02 | RAMSTACK | 15.640 | HT 4 | 18 | SHREFFLER | |||
| 19 | 69 | DREHER | 15.643 | 1 | PICKENS | 19 | HATTON | ||
| 20 | 5W | WALTERS | 15.644 | 2 | COONS | 20 | DURST | ||
| 21 | 17 | KEELAN | 15.666 | 3 | FISCUS | 21 | LUNDGREEN | ||
| 22 | 20 | WEISENSEL | 15.724 | 4 | FUERST | 22 | FUERST | ||
| 23 | 43 | LUEBKE | 15.750 | 5 | SLOTTEN | ||||
| 24 | 2 | STRATTON | 15.758 | ||||||
| 25 | 28 | FUERST | 15.763 | ||||||
| 26 | 21S | SHREFFLER | 15.758 | ||||||
| 27 | 14 | MAYHEW | 15.804 | ||||||
| 28 | 56 | DULL | 16.150 | ||||||
| 29 | 3R | R.RAY | 16.154 | ||||||
| 30 | 8 | MECUM | 16.289 | ||||||
| 31 | 57 | GOUGH | 16.407 | ||||||
| 32 | 38 | WYTTENBACK | 17.534 | ||||||
| 33 | 8 | JORDON | NT |
BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 5/20/07
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS
| 1 | BRAD KUHN | 101 | 0 | 43x | MICHAEL QUIN | 101 |
| 2 | AARON FISCUS | 92 | 0 | 7 | JIM FISCUS | 92 |
| 3 | BRAD LOYETT | 92 | 6 | 5 | BRAD LOYET | 92 |
| 4 | DANNY STRATTON | 77 | 5 | 2 | HANS LEIN | 77 |
| 5 | JERRY COONS | 70 | 3 | 5 | RAJO WILKE PAK | 70 |
| 6 | DAVEY RAY | 62 | 0 | 33 | DAVE RAY | 62 |
| 7 | MIKE HESS | 62 | 7 | 44 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 62 |
| 8 | BRANDON WAELTI | 56 | 0 | 3 | WAELTI-SCHULENBERG | 56 |
| 9 | HARLEY SLOTTEN | 56 | 0 | 12 | ACCELERATION RACING | 56 |
| 10 | A.J. FIKE | 52 | 0 | 69 | FIKE | 52 |
| 11 | SCOTT HATTON | 48 | 0 | 15 | HUSTON SOLUTION RACING | 48 |
| 12 | CHAD DESELLE | 48 | 9 | 6 | JIM FISCUS | 48 |
| 13 | MICHAEL PICKENS | 46 | 0 | 1AU | STEVE SMITH | 46 |
| 14 | DAVID GOUGH | 45 | 11 | 57 | RAB RACING | 45 |
| 15 | DOUG SCHENCK | 42 | 0 | 19 | RICK IMHOFF | 42 |
| 16 | BOB SHREFFLER | 40 | 3 | 21s | BERNIE SHREFFLER | 40 |
| 17 | RYAN DURST | 37 | 0 | 91 | KASEY KAHNE MOTORSPORTS | 37 |
| 18 | BRIAN RAMSTACK | 36 | 5 | 02 | BRIAN RAMSTACK | 36 |
| 19 | JOE WIPPERFURTH | 33 | 0 | 4 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 33 |
| 20 | JIM FUERST | 29 | 0 | 28 | JIM FUERST | 29 |
| 21 | NICK LUNDGREEN | 28 | 0 | 41 | JONES MOTORSPORTS | 28 |
| 22 | BRYON WALTERS | 27 | 1 | 5 | BRYON WALTERS | 27 |
| 23 | ROB KEELAN | 20 | 0 | 17 | ROB KEELAN | 20 |
| 24 | JASON DULL | 18 | 2 | 56 | JASON DULL | 18 |
| 25 | KURT MAYHEW | 16 | 0 | 14 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 16 |
| 26 | TIM NOBLE | 16 | 2 | 9 | JIM FISCUS | 16 |
| 27 | ROBBIE RAY | 15 | 2 | 3R | MARK RAY | 15 |
| 28 | BUDDY LUEBKE | 14 | 0 | 43 | BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS | 14 |
| 29 | DAN MECUM | 13 | 1 | 8 | DAN MECUM | 13 |
| 30 | JOE WYTTENBAC | 12 | 1 | 38 | TOM BONG | 12 |
| 31 | CHAD DREHER | 0 | 0 | 69 | BILL DREHER | 0 |
| 32 | DOUG JORDAN | 0 | 0 | 8 | DOUG JORDAN | 0 |
| 33 | CODY WEISENSEL | 0 | 0 | 20 | KEVIN WEISENSEL | 0 |