Coons ends Kuhn's Badger winning streak
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By Bryan Gapinski Sun Prairie, Wis., June 17---Jerry Coons Jr. ended Brad Kuhn's four-race winning streak Sunday Night capturing the 30-lap Badger Midget Series feature at Angell Park Speedway. Kuhn was attempting to tie John Hartwig's 1973 record of winning the first five feature events to start a race season.
Aaron Fiscus jumped into the lead and paced the initial three laps, before Kuhn took over the top position. Kuhn quickly pulled away from Fiscus and Coons. Kuhn held a half straightaway lead when a slowing car on the track brought out the caution on lap ten. On the restart Coons moved around Fiscus for second place, a multi-car tangle occurred on the 11th lap bringing out the caution.
One lap after the restart Coons got a great run on Kuhn entering turn one and took the lead. Four laps later Coons held a three car length lead and began lapping slower cars. Robbie Ray spun on the 21st lap, bunching up the field. Coons and Kuhn easily pulled away from the field with Coons running a flawless race the remainder of the event.
Kuhn closed the margin in the final two laps and trailed Coons who drove the Ralph Wilke owned Spike/Mopar #5, at the finish by 0.66 seconds. For the second straight event Brandon Waelti captured third, followed by Scott Hatton and Brady Bacon. Kuhn holds a 151 point margin over Coons heading into the June 22-23 Pepsi/Mt. dew Knoxville Midget Nationals at Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway.
| QUAL | HT 1 | B-FT | A-FT | ||||||
| 1 | 33 | D.RAY | 15.021 | 1 | KUHN | 1 | NOBLE | 1 | COONS |
| 2 | 3 | WAELTI | 15.135 | 2 | HATTON | 2 | RAMSTACK | 2 | KUHN |
| 3 | 19 | SCHENCK | 15.140 | 3 | SMITH | 3 | LUNDGREEN | 3 | WAELTI |
| 4 | 15 | HATTON | 15.140 | 4 | LUEBKE | 4 | OLSON | 4 | HATTON |
| 5 | 6 | DESELLE | 15.198 | 5 | RAMSTACK | 5 | R.RAY | 5 | BACON |
| 6 | 5 | COONS | 15.207 | HT 2 | 6 | MECUM | 6 | KEELAN | |
| 7 | 44 | HESS | 15.309 | 1 | SCHENCK | 7 | SHREFFLER | 7 | NOBLE |
| 8 | 43NZ | KUHN | 15.313 | 2 | HESS | 8 | DULL | 8 | STRATTON |
| 9 | 9 | NOBLE | 15.355 | 3 | EGGERT | 9 | WYTTENBACH | 9 | DESELLE |
| 10 | 7 | FISCUS | 15.442 | 4 | KEELAN | 10 | BURGES | 10 | OLSON |
| 11 | 14 | OLSON | 15.445 | 5 | OLSON | 11 | SMITH | ||
| 12 | 13 | SMITH | 15.449 | HT 3 | 12 | RAMSTACK | |||
| 13 | 8 | BACON | 15.477 | 1 | COONS | 13 | FISCUS | ||
| 14 | 21 | SHREFFLER | 15.481 | 2 | STRATTON | 14 | MECUM | ||
| 15 | 41 | LUNDGREEN | 15.489 | 3 | FISCUS | 15 | LUEBKE | ||
| 16 | 02 | RAMSTACK | 15.509 | 4 | WAELTI | 16 | HESS | ||
| 17 | 4 | WIPPERFURTH | 15.517 | 5 | SHREFFLER | 17 | R.RAY | ||
| 18 | 2 | STRATTON | 15.527 | HT 4 | 18 | D.RAY | |||
| 19 | 17 | KEELAN | 15.572 | 1 | D.RAY | 19 | SCHENCK | ||
| 20 | 43 | LEUBKE | 15.692 | 2 | BACON | 20 | LUNDGREEN | ||
| 21 | 12 | SLOTTEN | 15.739 | 3 | DESELLE | 21 | EGGERT | ||
| 22 | 5 | WALTERS | 15.803 | 4 | WIPPERFURTH | 22 | WIPPERFURTH | ||
| 23 | 98 | EGGERT | 15.814 | 5 | MECUM | ||||
| 24 | 3R | R.RAY | 15.972 | ||||||
| 25 | 8 | MECUM | 16.067 | ||||||
| 26 | 57 | GOUGH | 16.102 | ||||||
| 27 | 38 | WITTENBACH | 16.257 | ||||||
| 28 | 31 | BUDRES | 16.519 | ||||||
| 29 | 67 | ATIG | NT | ||||||
| 30 | 56 | DULL | NT |
BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF6/17/07
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS
| 1 | BRAD KUHN | 526 | 17 | 43x | MICHAEL QUIN | 526 |
| 2 | JERRY COONS JR | 375 | 30 | 3 | WAELTI-SCHULENBERG | 325 |
| 3 | BRANDON WAELTI | 325 | 13 | 2 | HANS LEIN | 320 |
| 4 | DANNY STRATTON | 320 | 35 | 44 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 313 |
| 5 | MIKE HESS | 313 | 7 | 15 | HUSTON SOLUTION RACING | 313 |
| 6 | SCOTT HATTON | 313 | 8 | 33 | DAN MECUM | 288 |
| 7 | DAVEY RAY | 288 | 14 | 19 | RICK IMHOFF | 279 |
| 8 | DOUG SCHENCK | 279 | 1 | 7 | JIM FISCUS | 274 |
| 9 | AARON FISCUS | 274 | 4 | 5 | RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT | 269 |
| 10 | CHAD DESELLE | 235 | 17 | 6 | JIM FISCUS | 235 |
| 11 | BRIAN RAMSTACK | 207 | 22 | 02 | BRIAN RAMSTACK | 207 |
| 12 | JOE WIPPERFURTH | 188 | 5 | 4 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 188 |
| 13 | NICK LUNDGREEN | 178 | 9 | 41 | JONES MOTORSPORTS | 178 |
| 14 | ROB KEELAN | 163 | 18 | 17 | ROB KEELAN | 163 |
| 15 | JAKE SLOTTEN | 159 | 0 | 43 | BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS | 158 |
| 16 | BUDDY LUEBKE | 158 | 4 | 3R | MARK RAY | 151 |
| 17 | TIM NOBLE * | 157 | 16 | 14 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 150 |
| 18 | ROBBIE RAY * | 151 | 28 | 8 | DAN MECUM | 145 |
| 19 | DAN MECUM * | 145 | 20 | 5 | JOE LOYET | 137 |
| 20 | BRAD LOYET | 137 | 6 | 57 | RAB RACING | 128 |
| 21 | DAVID GOUGH | 128 | 25 | 21s | BERNIE SHREFFLER | 127 |
| 22 | BOB SHREFFLER | 127 | 3 | 9 | JIM FISCUS | 126 |
| 23 | BRYON WALTERS | 112 | 4 | 12 | ACCELERATION RACING | 123 |
| 24 | MATT SMITH | 98 | 5 | 5 | BILLINGS- WALTERS RACING | 112 |
| 25 | KURT MAYHEW | 94 | 3 | 8 | JIM FISCUS | 108 |
| 26 | A.J. FIKE | 83 | 0 | 11 | RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT | 106 |
| 27 | JASON DULL | 82 | 4 | 32 | RFMS RACING | 99 |
| 28 | BRADY BACON | 67 | 8 | 13 | STEVE SMITH | 98 |
| 29 | JOEL WYTTENBACH * | 58 | 1 | 69 | RFMS RACING | 83 |
| 30 | KEVIN OLSON | 56 | 1 | 56 | JASON-KEN DULL | 82 |
| 31 | MICHAEL PICKENS | 46 | 0 | 38 | TOM - TAMMY BONG | 58 |
| 32 | RYAN DURST | 46 | 0 | 1AU | STEVE SMITH | 46 |
| 33 | JIM FUERST | 45 | 0 | 91 | AUTO AUCTIONS LTD | 46 |
| 34 | DOUG JORDAN | 41 | 0 | 28 | JIM FUERST | 45 |
| 35 | KEVIN EGGERT | 32 | 0 | 8 | DOUG JORDAN | 41 |
| 36 | DAVID BUDRES | 29 | 0 | 12X | ACCELERATION RACING | 36 |
| 37 | CHAD DREHER | 0 | 0 | 98 | KEVIN EGGERT | 32 |
| 38 | CODY WEISENSEL | 0 | 0 | 31 | MANIC RACING | 29 |
| 39 | CHASE SCOTT | 0 | 0 | 69 | BILL DREHER | 0 |
| 40 | THOMAS MESSERAUL | 0 | 0 | 20 | KEVIN WEISENSEL | 0 |
| 41 | 14 | RYAN SCOTT | 0 | |||
| 42 | 2X | MARK BUSH | 0 | |||
| 43 | 67 | BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS | 0 |