Kuhn notches fifth Badger victory

PHOTO BY JEFF ARNS

By Bryan Gapinski Sun Prairie, Wis., July 15---Defending series champion Brad Kuhn extended his series points lead by capturing the 30-lap Badger Midget Series feature, Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. 
Brandon Waelti paced the opening lap, before Ryan Durst took the top position one lap later. At the same time Brandon Wagner and Joe Wipperfurth both flipped down the front stretch several times, escaping injury. On the restart Durst quickly pulled away from the field increasing his lead each lap. Behind Durst, positions second through fifth changed several times over the next few laps. Durst held a full straightway lead on second place, when Rob Keelan stopped on the track with a flat tire on the 12th lap.
On the restart Durst was challenged by Doug Schenck. Schenck led the event's 14th lap. One lap later Durst repassed Schenck for the lead with Kuhn taking over the second position. Kuhn powered off the second turn on the 16th lap and drove under Durst for the lead. Justin Allgaier took over second place three laps later.
Two cautions appeared for stalled cars on the 21st and 22nd laps. During the second caution, Allgaier retired with engine problems. On the restart Kuhn's car which began smoking, quickly moved away from the field. Fourth place Danny Stratton stopped on the track with three laps remaining. Setting up a three-lap showdown between Kuhn and Mike Hess who the series event the previous evening at Charter Raceway Park (Beaver Dm, Wis.).
On the restart Kuhn driving the Michael Quin owned Stealth-Mopar ran his fastest laps of the race and finished 2.6 second ahead of Hess for his fifth feature victory of the season. Schenck, Scott Hatton and Waelti completed the top five. Kuhn holds a 174 point lead over Davey Ray heading into the July 22 event at Angell Park Speedway.

15-lap Semi Feature Winner: Hess.
10-lap Heat Race Winners: Allgaier, Durst, Waelti, Ray.
Fast Time: Kuhn, 14.959 seconds.
Cars Present: 31 Feature Lap Leaders: Waelti 1, Durst 2-13, Schenck 14, Durst 15-16, Kuhn 17-30.

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 43NZ KUHN 14.959 1 ALLGAIER 1 HESS 1 KUHN
2 15 HATTON 15.051 2 WIPPERFURTH 2 FISCUS 2 HESS
3 2 STRATTON 15.086 3 BIRO 3 NOBLE 3 SCHENCK
4 22 BIRO 15.095 4 R.RAY 4 LUNDGREEN 4 HATTON
5 19 SCHENCK 15.121 5 WYTTENBACH 5 WAGNER 5 B.WAELTI
6 67 ALTIG 15.134 HT 2 6 MAYHEW 6 R.RAY
7 7 FISCUS 15.238 1 DURST 7 WYTTENBACH 7 DESELLE
8 86 ALLGAIER 15.238 2 STRATTON 8 DREHER 8 BIRO
9 44 HESS 15.247 3 LUEBKE 9 DULL 9 SMITH
10 3 B.WAELTI 15.270 4 KEELAN 10 L.WAELTI 10 FISCUS
11 51 DURST 15.316 5 WAGNER 11 SHREFFLER 11 LUNDGREEN
12 4 WIPPERFURTH 15.324 HT 3     12 LUEBKE
13 6 DESELE 15.339 1 B.WAELTI     13 D.RAY
14 13 SMITH 15.348 2 SMITH     14 MAYHEW
15 17 KEELAN 15.391 3 HATTON     15 NOBLE
16 21S SHREFFLER 15.435 4 ALTIG     16 STRATTON
17 14 D.RAY 15.437 5 MAYHEW     17 ALLGAIER
18 98 EGGERT 15.440 HT 4     18 DURST
19 2X LUEBKE 15.562 1 D.RAY     19 ALTIG
20 3R R.RAY 15.571 2 DESELLE     20 KEELAN
21 9 NOBLE 15.588 3 SCHENCK     21 WIPPERFURTH
22 21K MAYHEW 15.617 4 KUHN     22 WAGNER
23 92 WAGNER 15.642 5 HESS        
24 41 LUNDGREEN 15.644      
25 69 DREHER 15.701      
26 56 DULL 15.770        
27 02 RAMSTACK 15.888        
28 38 WYTTENBACH 16.161        
29 8J JORDAN 15.807        
30 7X L.WAELTI 19.3        
31 8 FISCUS NT    
32 97 HOEGSTED NT      

 

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF7/15/07
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 BRAD KUHN 1037 56 43NZ MICHAEL QUIN 1037
2 DAVEY RAY 863 36 15 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 853
3 SCOTT HATTON 853 34 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 779
4 DANNY STRATTON 789 66 44 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 759
5 BRANDON WAELTI 779 21 2 HANS LEIN 716
6 MIKE HESS 759 30 33 DAN MECUM 678
7 JERRY COONS JR 714 43 19 RICK IMHOFF 669
8 DOUG SCHENCK 669 14 6 JIM FISCUS 535
9 AARON FISCUS 570 28 7 JIM FISCUS 530
10 CHAD DESELLE 535 33 41 JONES MOTORSPORTS 495
11 NICK LUNDGREEN 495 28 5 RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT 492
12 JOE WIPPERFURTH 441 20 14 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 448
13 MATT SMITH 402 12 4 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 441
14 BRIAN RAMSTACK   392 39 02 BRIAN RAMSTACK 392
15 ROBBIE RAY * 384 67 3R MARK RAY 384
16 TIM NOBLE * 340 35 17 ROB KEELAN 315
17 RYAN DURST 327 1 9 JIM FISCUS 309
18 JAKE SLOTTEN 322 6 57 RAB RACING 291
19 ROB KEELAN 315 27 8 JIM FISCUS 285
20 BRADY BACON 287 21 21s BERNIE SHREFFLER 252
21 BOB SHREFFLER 252 5 5 BILLINGS- WALTERS RACING 228
22 BUDDY LUEBKE 243 8 11 RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT 222
23 BRYON WALTERS 228 7 91 AUTO AUCTIONS LTD 218
24 KURT MAYHEW 200 16 43 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 198
25 DAN MECUM * 169 20 8 DAN MECUM 169
26 BRAD LOYET 164 6 2B HANS LEIN 168
27 JOEL WYTTENBACH * 148 10 5 JOE LOYET 164
28 BUBBA ALTIG 134 11 13 STEVE SMITH 152
29 JASON DULL 130 4 38 TOM - TAMMY BONG 148
30 DAVID GOUGH 128 25 32 RFMS RACING 135
31 JIM FUERST 111 10 67X ALTIG MOTORSPORTS 134
32 KRIS HOEGSTED 89 11 56 JASON-KEN  DULL 130
33 A.J. FIKE 83 0 12 ACCELERATION RACING 123
34 DOUG JORDAN 76 2 28 JIM FUERST 111
35 CHAD DREHER 75 5 51 AUTO AUCTIONS LTD 109
36 KEVIN EGGERT 70 5 21K KURT MAYHEW 106
37 CHASE SCOTT 68 0 97 MARY HOEGSTED 89
38 KEVIN OLSON 56 1 69 RFMS RACING 83
39 DAVID BUDRES 53 0 8 DOUG JORDAN 76
40 MICHAEL PICKENS 46 0 69 BILL DREHER 75
41 LEROY WAELTI 15 0 98 DAVE EGGERT 70
42 CODY WEISENSEL 0 0 14 REAL RACE CARS 68
43 THOMAS MESSERAUL 0 0 31 MANIC RACING 53
44 1AU STEVE SMITH 46
45   12X ACCELERATION RACING 36
46       7X LAW MOTORSPORTS 15
47       20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 0
48                 2X MARK BUSH 0
49 67 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 0
 

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