Ray Tops Angell Park

PHOTO BY JEFF ARNS

By Bryan Gapinski Sun Prairie, Wi., July 1--Former series champion Davey Ray captured the 30-lap Badger Midget Series feature Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway.
Nick Lundgreen quickly moved into the lead, and paced the first two laps before the caution appeared. On the restart Lundgreen again led the field, over second year driver Matt Smith, and Brady Bacon. Lundgreen held a two-car length over Smith, on the tenth lap when he began lapping the tail of the field. Only five car lengths separated the top five positions. 
The next six laps saw Lundgreen cut through the field lapping up to eleventh position, when the caution appeared for a stalled car. On the restart Ray ran on Lundgreen's rear bumper for the first lap and a half before pulling off the winning pass entering turn 3.
One lap later Doug Schenck, escaped injury flipping on the front stretch.
Ray pulled away from the tightly bunched field on the restart, however with seven laps remaining the red flag appeared for a fire on Bacon's car. The final seven laps saw Ray driving the Dan Mecum owned Mecum Enterprises Spike/Chevrolet by Hawk entry increase his lead each lap finishing 1.86 seconds ahead of Lundgreen, Mike Hess, Smith who scored a career best feature finish of fourth, and series point leader Brad Kuhn.
Kuhn holds a 141 point lead over Ray heading into the first ever midget race event at Langlade County Speedway (Antigo,Wis.) on Saturday Night July 7, before returning to Angell Park on July 8.

15-lap Semi feature Winner: Fiscus.
10-lap Heat Race Winners: Walters, Ray, Hess, Kuhn.
Fast Time: Kuhn, 15.085 seconds.
Cars Present: 30 Feature Lap Leaders: Lundgreen 1-17, Ray 18-30.
*Schenck flipped on lap 18 of feature.

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 43NZ KUHN 15.085 1 WALTERS 1 FISCUS 1 D.RAY
2 15 HATTON 15.096 2 BACON 2 SLOTTEN 2 LUNDGREEN
3 33 D.RAY 15.120 3 SCHENCK 3 RAMSTACK 3 HESS
4 19 SCHENCK 15.245 4 KEELAN 4 SHREFFLER 4 SMITH
5 3 WAELTI 15.262 5 JORDAN 5 DREHER 5 KUHN
6 2 STRATTON 15.310 HT 2 6 R.RAY 6 DESELLE
7 14 SMITH 15.332 1 D.RAY 7 MAYHEW 7 WAELTI
8 8F BACON 15.353 2 WIPPERFURTH 8 FUERST 8 WIPPERFURTH
9 41 LUNDGREEN 15.384 3 DESELLE 9 JORDAN 9 SLOTTEN
10 44 HESS 15.430 4 SMITH 10 WYTTENBACH 10 FISCUS
11 9 NOBLE 15.490 5 R.RAY 11 DULL 11 KEELAN
12 7 FISCUS 15.508 HT 3     12 R,RAY
13 57 SLOTTEN 15.518 1 HESS     13 DREHER
14 21K MAYHEW 15.533 2 STRATTON     14 MAYHEW
15 6 DESELE 15.564 3 HATTON     15 RAMSTACK
16 17 KEELAN 15.565 4 HOEGSTED     16 HOEGSTED
17 02 RAMSTACK 15.588 5 MAYHEW     17 BACON
18 67 LUEBKE 15.590 HT 4     18 SCHENCK
19 4 WIPPERFURTH 15.599 1 KUHN     19 ALTIG
20 98 EGGERT 15.643 2 WAELTI     20 WALTERS
21 67X ALTIG 15.697 3 ALTIG     21 STRATTON
22 28 FUERST 15.729 4 LUNDGREEN     22 HATTON
23 21S SHREFFLER 15.850 5 SLOTTEN        
24 5W WALTERS 15.893      
25 69 DREHER 15.914      
26 38 WYTTENBACH 15.92        
27 3R R.RAY 15.920        
28 8J JORDAN 15.986        
29 56 DULL 16.297        
30 97 HOEGSTED 16.698        

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF7/1/07
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 BRAD KUHN 752 39 43NZ MICHAEL QUIN 752
2 DAVEY RAY 614 35 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 513
3 JERRY COONS JR 601 39 15 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 483
4 BRANDON WAELTI 513 19 33 DAN MECUM 477
5 SCOTT HATTON 484 20 44 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 446
6 DANNY STRATTON 464 41 19 RICK IMHOFF 401
7 MIKE HESS 446 7 2 HANS LEIN 391
8 DOUG SCHENCK 401 3 5 RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT 379
9 AARON FISCUS 376 7 7 JIM FISCUS 376
10 CHAD DESELLE 348 28 6 JIM FISCUS 348
11 NICK LUNDGREEN 333 13 41 JONES MOTORSPORTS 333
12 JOE WIPPERFURTH 289 14 14 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 307
13 BRIAN RAMSTACK   279 31 4 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 289
14 MATT SMITH 255 8 02 BRIAN RAMSTACK 279
15 ROB KEELAN 251 25 17 ROB KEELAN 251
16 BRADY BACON 233 15 3R MARK RAY 231
17 ROBBIE RAY * 231 43 11 RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT 222
18 JAKE SLOTTEN 231 3 57 RAB RACING 200
19 TIM NOBLE * 209 25 43 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 198
20 BUDDY LUEBKE 198 4 8 JIM FISCUS 191
21 BRYON WALTERS 170 4 9 JIM FISCUS 178
22 DAN MECUM * 169 20 5 BILLINGS- WALTERS RACING 170
23 BOB SHREFFLER 165 5 8 DAN MECUM 169
24 BRAD LOYET 164 6 21s BERNIE SHREFFLER 165
25 KURT MAYHEW 143 11 5 JOE LOYET 164
26 DAVID GOUGH 128 25 32 RFMS RACING 135
27 RYAN DURST 106 0 12 ACCELERATION RACING 123
28 JASON DULL 96 4 91 AUTO AUCTIONS LTD 106
29 JOEL WYTTENBACH * 89 7 13 STEVE SMITH 98
30 A.J. FIKE 83 0 56 JASON-KEN  DULL 96
31 DOUG JORDAN 76 2 38 TOM - TAMMY BONG 89
32 JIM FUERST 63 0 69 RFMS RACING 83
33 KEVIN OLSON 56 1 8 DOUG JORDAN 76
34 KRIS HOEGSTED 48 5 28 JIM FUERST 63
35 MICHAEL PICKENS 46 0 21K KURT MAYHEW 49
36 DAVID BUDRES 39 0 97 KRIS HOEGSTED 48
37 CHAD DREHER 34 5 1AU STEVE SMITH 46
38 BUBBA ALTIG 34 0 31 MANIC RACING 39
39 KEVIN EGGERT 32 0 12X ACCELERATION RACING 36
40 CHASE SCOTT 22 0 69 BILL DREHER 34
41 CODY WEISENSEL 0 0 67X BUBBA ALTIG 34
42 THOMAS MESSERAUL 0 0 98 KEVIN EGGERT 32
43 14 RYAN SCOTT 22
44 20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 0
45             2X MARK BUSH 0
46       67 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 0
 

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