Late race charge nets Hess Badger win

PHOTO BY JEFF ARNS

By Bryan Gapinski Beaver Dam, Wis., July 14---Mike Hess scored a thrilling victory capturing Round Two of Duel at the Dam 30-lap Badger Midget Series feature, Saturday Night at Charter Raceway Park. 
Hess jumped into the lead at the start, while Scott Hatton quickly moved from eighth to second place by the completion of lap three. One lap later Hatton took the lead. The field was bunched up for a caution on lap six. Again underway Hatton began increasing his lead each lap over a tightly bunched field which saw positions in the top five changing several times each lap.
Hatton held a 1.8 second lead at the midway point over Hess. A slowing car brought out the caution one lap later. On the restart Hatton easily pulled away from Hess and the field. Attention then turned to Danny Stratton who started in 16th starting position and was now racing in the top five. Hatton running the high groove increased his advantage over Hess to 3.9 seconds when Ryan Durst spun with four laps remaining.
On the restart Hatton used the lower groove while Hess began testing the cushion with Stratton moving into third place. Hess made a charge on Hatton going down the backstretch on the 28th lap and made the pass to take the lead at the start/finish line as the pair received the white flag. Hatton then tried to drive under Hess exiting turn four but fell a half-car length short of victory. 
Hess drove the Jerry Hardy owned Buzzard/Chevrolet Hawk#44. The feature win was the first ever for Hardy, as a car owner. Stratton, Brandon Waelti, and fast qualifier Brad Kuhn completed the top five.

15-lap Semi Feature Winner: Noble.
10-lap Heat Race Winners: Hatton, Altig, Stratton.
Fast Time: Kuhn, 14.613 seconds.
Cars Present: 26 Feature Lap Leaders: Hess 1-3, Hatton 4-28, Hess 29-30.
*Matt Smith flipped on second lap of semi feature, uninjured. 

 

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 43 KUHN 14.613 1 HATTON 1 NOBLE 1 HESS
2 19 SCHENCK 14.651 2 DURST 2 SHREFFLER 2 HATTON
3 15 HATTON 14.671 3 LUNDGREEN 3 R.RAY 3 STRATTON
4 14S SCOTT 14.73 4 RAMSTACK 4 SCOTT 4 WAELTI
5 44 HESS 14.849 5 WAGNER 5 DREHER 5 KUHN
6 92 WAGNER 14.861 HT 2 6 WYTTENBACH 6 ALTIG
7 6 DESELLE 14.905 1 ALTIG 7 HOEGSTED 7 SCHENCK
8 4 WIPPERFURTH 14.943 2 HESS 8 DULL 8 WAGNER
9 9 NOBLE 15.049 3 FISCUS 9 SMITH 9 RAMSTACK
10 3 WAELTI 15.060 4 WIPPERFURTH 10 WALTERS 10 FISCUS
11 3R R.RAY 15.063 5 SCHENCK     11 SCOTT
12 02 RAMSTACK 15.086 HT 3     12 R.RAY
13 33 D.RAY 15.089 1 STRATTON     13 LUNDGREEN
14 21S SHREFFLER 15.100 2 DESELLE     14 WIPPERFURTH
15 91 DURST 15.116 3 KUHN     15 DURST
16 2 STRATTON 15.171 4 WAELTI     16 HOEGSTED
17 67 ALTIG 15.172 5 D.RAY     17 D.RAY
18 41 LUNDGREEN 15.227       18 NOBLE
19 5W WALTERS 15.243         19 DESELLE
20 7 FISCUS 15.262         20 SHREFFLER
21 14 SMITH 15.288         21 DREHER
22 56 DULL 15.435         22 WYTTENBACH
23 31 BRIDGES 15.618            
24 69 DREHER 15.657      
25 97 HOGSTED 15.710      
26 38 WYTENBACH 15.713        

 

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF7/14/07
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 BRAD KUHN 928 47 43NZ MICHAEL QUIN 928
2 DAVEY RAY 815 36 15 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 769
3 SCOTT HATTON 769 29 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 708
4 DANNY STRATTON 740 66 33 DAN MECUM 678
5 JERRY COONS JR 714 43 44 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 671
6 BRANDON WAELTI 708 21 2 HANS LEIN 667
7 MIKE HESS 671 29 19 RICK IMHOFF 578
8 DOUG SCHENCK 578 11 7 JIM FISCUS 525
9 AARON FISCUS 525 16 5 RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT 492
10 CHAD DESELLE 477 28 6 JIM FISCUS 477
11 NICK LUNDGREEN 457 18 41 JONES MOTORSPORTS 457
12 JOE WIPPERFURTH 406 20 4 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 406
13 BRIAN RAMSTACK   392 39 14 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 400
14 MATT SMITH 348 8 02 BRIAN RAMSTACK 392
15 ROBBIE RAY * 329 56 3R MARK RAY 329
16 JAKE SLOTTEN 322 6 57 RAB RACING 291
17 TIM NOBLE * 310 32 17 ROB KEELAN 284
18 BRADY BACON 287 21 9 JIM FISCUS 279
19 RYAN DURST 287 1 8 JIM FISCUS 245
20 ROB KEELAN 284 27 21s BERNIE SHREFFLER 238
21 BOB SHREFFLER 238 5 5 BILLINGS- WALTERS RACING 228
22 BRYON WALTERS 228 7 11 RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT 222
23 BUDDY LUEBKE 198 4 91 AUTO AUCTIONS LTD 218
24 DAN MECUM * 169 20 43 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 198
25 BRAD LOYET 164 6 8 DAN MECUM 169
26 KURT MAYHEW 163 11 5 JOE LOYET 164
27 DAVID GOUGH 128 25 32 RFMS RACING 135
28 JOEL WYTTENBACH * 123 7 12 ACCELERATION RACING 123
29 JASON DULL 114 4 2B HANS LEIN 123
30 JIM FUERST 111 10 38 TOM - TAMMY BONG 123
31 BUBBA ALTIG 96 11 56 JASON-KEN  DULL 114
32 KRIS HOEGSTED 89 11 28 JIM FUERST 111
33 A.J. FIKE 83 0 13 STEVE SMITH 98
34 DOUG JORDAN 76 2 67X BUBBA ALTIG 96
35 KEVIN EGGERT 70 5 97 KRIS HOEGSTED 89
36 CHASE SCOTT 68 0 69 RFMS RACING 83
37 CHAD DREHER 57 5 8 DOUG JORDAN 76
38 KEVIN OLSON 56 1 98 KEVIN EGGERT 70
39 DAVID BUDRES 53 0 21K KURT MAYHEW 69
40 MICHAEL PICKENS 46 0 51 AUTO AUCTIONS LTD 69
41 CODY WEISENSEL 0 0 14 RYAN SCOTT 68
42 THOMAS MESSERAUL 0 0 69 BILL DREHER 57
43 31 MANIC RACING 53
44 1AU STEVE SMITH 46
45   12X ACCELERATION RACING 36
46       20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 0
47                 2X MARK BUSH 0
48       67 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 0
 

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