Kuhn nails third straight Badger victory
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PHOTO BY JEFF ARNS |
By Bryan Gapinski Beaver Dam, Wis., June 2---Brad Kuhn made it three for three this season capturing Round One of Duel at the Dam 30-lap Badger Midget Series feature, Saturday Night at Charter Raceway. Kuhn driver of the Michael Quin owned Stealth/Mopar becomes the first driver since Aaron Fike in 2002, to capture the opening three features of the season.
Colorado's Russ Harper paced the initial three circuits before Kuhn took over the lead on a restart. One lap later sixth place Brad Loyet flipped entering turn three escaping injury. Kuhn again quickly jumped into the lead, while Scott Hatton and Jerry Coons moved into second and third place by the seventh lap.
Two laps later Kuhn began lapping slower cars. Kuhn stretched his lead to a straightaway with ten laps remaining. One lap later Kuhn's lead was erased for a stalled car on the track. On the restart Kuhn took advantage of two laps cars between himself and Hatton to build an advantage. Coons and Darren Hagen passed Hatton on the restart. Kuhn appeared head for an easy victory when Harper stalled on the track with two laps remaining.
Kuhn took advantage of a lapped car between himself and Coons on the restart and finished 1.12 seconds ahead of Coons, Hagen, Hatton and Mike Hess. Earlier in the evening Coons became the first driver in track history to turn a sub 14-second qualifying lap, breaking Fike's five year-old track record by better than a half second.
| QUAL | HT 1 | B-FT | A-FT | ||||||
| 1 | 11 | COONS | 13.984 | 1 | WAELTI | 1 | BIRO | 1 | KUHN |
| 2 | 32 | HAGEN | 14.170 | 2 | GURNEY | 2 | HARPER | 2 | COONS |
| 3 | 05 | LOYET | 14.173 | 3 | SCHENCK | 3 | DESELLE | 3 | HAGEN |
| 4 | 19 | SCHENCK | 14.213 | 4 | LUNDGREEN | 4 | SLOTTEN | 4 | HATTON |
| 5 | 15 | HATTON | 14.296 | 5 | RAMSTACK | 5 | NOBLE | 5 | HESS |
| 6 | 44 | HESS | 14.336 | HT 2 | 6 | RAMSTACK | 6 | DESELLE | |
| 7 | 43NZ | KUHN | 14.388 | 1 | LOYET | 7 | R.RAY | 7 | STRATTON |
| 8 | 41 | LUNDGREEN | 14.403 | 2 | D.RAY | 8 | FISCUS | 8 | D.RAY |
| 9 | 22 | BIRO | 14.441 | 3 | KUHN | 9 | FUERST | 9 | BIRO |
| 10 | 09 | HARPER | 14.486 | 4 | STRATTON | 10 | LUEBKE | 10 | MORGAN |
| 11 | 2 | STRATTON | 14.524 | 5 | SLOTTEN | 11 | MECUM | 11 | LUNDGREEN |
| 12 | 51 | GURNEY | 14.563 | HT 3 | 12 | ALTIG | 12 | NOBLE | |
| 13 | 8F | BACON | 14.569 | 1 | HAGEN | 13 | WALTERS | 13 | SCHENCK |
| 14 | 91 | DURST | 14.571 | 2 | WIPPERFURTH | 14 | OLSON | 14 | WAELTI |
| 15 | 12 | SLOTTEN | 14.585 | 3 | MOSER | 15 | BACON | 15 | HARPER |
| 16 | 6 | DESELLE | 14.585 | 4 | HESS | 16 | DURST | 16 | RAMSTACK |
| 17 | 17 | WINDM | 14.589 | 5 | HARPER | 17 | WINDOM | ||
| 18 | 69X | FIKE | 14.618 | HT 4 | 18 | SLOTTEN | |||
| 19 | 3M | MOSEN | 14.637 | 1 | COONS | 19 | WIPPERFURTH | ||
| 20 | 33 | D.RAY | 14.704 | 2 | MORGAN | 20 | GURNEY | ||
| 21 | 9 | NOBLE | 14.737 | 3 | HATTON | 21 | MOSER | ||
| 22 | 4M | ALTIG | 14.784 | 4 | WINDOM | 22 | LOYET | ||
| 23 | 43 | LUEBKE | 14.792 | 5 | BACON | ||||
| 24 | 28 | FUERST | 14.883 | ||||||
| 25 | 3 | WAELTI | 14.933 | ||||||
| 26 | 14 | MAYHEW | 14.917 | ||||||
| 27 | 4 | WIPPERFURTH | 14.995 | ||||||
| 28 | 3R | R.RAY | 15.017 | ||||||
| 29 | 02 | RAMSTACK | 15.096 | ||||||
| 30 | 14X | SCOTT | 15.113 | ||||||
| 31 | 7 | FISCUS | 15.140 | ||||||
| 32 | 98 | EGGERT | 15.328 | ||||||
| 33 | 8 | MECUM | 15.241 | ||||||
| 34 | 11X | MORGAN | 15.437 | ||||||
| 35 | 38 | WYTENBACH | NT | ||||||
| 36 | 5W | WALTERS | NT |
BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF6/2/07
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS
| 1 | BRAD KUHN | 321 | 12 |
43x |
MICHAEL QUIN | 321 |
| 2 | JERRY COONS JR | 265 | 26 | 2 | HANS LEIN | 224 |
| 3 | DANNY STRATTON | 224 | 26 | 7 | JIM FISCUS | 191 |
| 4 | AARON FISCUS | 191 | 4 | 44 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 178 |
| 5 | MIKE HESS | 178 | 7 | 19 | RICK IMHOFF | 164 |
| 6 | DOUG SCHENCK | 164 | 0 | 33 | DAN MECUM | 160 |
| 7 | DAVEY RAY | 160 | 9 | 5 | RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT | 159 |
| 8 | BRANDON WAELTI | 151 | 4 | 3 | WAELTI-SCHULENBERG | 151 |
| 9 | SCOTT HATTON | 139 | 2 | 15 | HUSTON SOLUTION RACING | 139 |
| 10 | BRAD LOYET | 137 | 6 | 5 | JOE LOYET | 137 |
| 11 | JOE WIPPERFURTH | 125 | 5 | 4 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 125 |
| 12 | JAKE SLOTTEN | 123 | 0 | 12 | ACCELERATION RACING | 123 |
| 13 | CHAD DESELLE | 117 | 17 | 6 | JIM FISCUS | 117 |
| 14 | BRIAN RAMSTACK | 116 | 15 | 02 | BRIAN RAMSTACK | 116 |
| 15 | NICK LUNDGREEN | 114 | 0 | 41 | JONES MOTORSPORTS | 114 |
| 16 | DAVID GOUGH | 91 | 17 | 11 | RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT | 106 |
| 17 | A.J. FIKE | 83 | 0 | 32 | RFMS RACING | 99 |
| 18 | TIM NOBLE * | 83 | 16 | 57 | RAB RACING | 91 |
| 19 | BRYON WALTERS | 80 | 4 | 69 | RFMS RACING | 83 |
| 20 | BUDDY LUEBKE | 78 | 0 | 5 | BILLINGS- WALTERS RACING | 80 |
| 21 | ROBBIE RAY * | 78 | 20 | 43 | BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS | 78 |
| 22 | DAN MECUM * | 72 | 11 | 3R | MARK RAY | 78 |
| 23 | ROB KEELAN | 64 | 6 | 8 | DAN MECUM | 72 |
| 24 | BOB SHREFFLER | 58 | 3 | 14 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 68 |
| 25 | KURT MAYHEW | 57 | 3 | 17 | ROB KEELAN | 64 |
| 26 | MICHAEL PICKENS | 46 | 0 | 21s | BERNIE SHREFFLER | 58 |
| 27 | JASON DULL | 46 | 2 | 9 | JIM FISCUS | 52 |
| 28 | RYAN DURST | 46 | 0 | 1AU | STEVE SMITH | 46 |
| 29 | JIM FUERST | 45 | 0 | 56 | JASON-KEN DULL | 46 |
| 30 | JOEL WYTTENBACH * | 27 | 1 | 91 | AUTO AUCTIONS LTD | 46 |
| 31 | DOUG JORDAN | 25 | 0 | 28 | JIM FUERST | 45 |
| 32 | KEVIN OLSON | 11 | 0 | 8 | JIM FISCUS | 41 |
| 33 | CHAD DREHER | 0 | 0 | 38 | TOM - TAMMY BONG | 27 |
| 34 | CODY WEISENSEL | 0 | 0 | 8 | DOUG JORDAN | 25 |
| 35 | CHASE SCOTT | 0 | 0 | 69 | BILL DREHER | 0 |
| 36 | KEVIN EGGERT | 0 | 0 | 20 | KEVIN WEISENSEL | 0 |
| 37 | 14 | RYAN SCOTT | 0 |