Hess snaps 'Prairie drought

By Bryan Gapinski Sun Prairie, Wis., July 29--Mike Hess scored a late race victory capturing the 30-lap Badger Midget Series feature Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. The victory was the 23rd career midget feature for the Riverton, Ill. driver but first ever at the famed 1/3-mile clay oval.
Nick Lundgreen paced the opening lap before Hess took over the top position. A five car accident on the seventh lap brought out the events first caution. On the restart Davey Ray quickly moved into second place and began challenging Hess for the lead, passing Hess as the pair exited Turn 4 on the ninth lap. On the 12th lap the field was again bunched up due to a caution for stalled car.
On the restart Ray quickly moved away from the field and at the midway point held a 1.5 second lead over Hess. Three laps later Ray began lapping slower cars and increased his lead to a full straightaway when his engine began to mis-fire with five laps remaining. Ray began slowing but still maintained a sizeable margin, when his car came to a stop with three laps remaining.
On the restart Hess led fast qualifier Gary Altig, Nick Lundgreen, series point leader Brad Kuhn and Brandon Waelti. Altig made one attempt at Hess on the 28th lap but drifted high and spent the remainder of the event trying to maintain second place. Hess driving the Jerry Hardy owned Buzzard/Hawk Chevrolet#44 finished 2.43 seconds ahead of Altig, Lundgreen, Kuhn and Waelti. Kuhn holds a 235 point lead over Ray heading into the Aug. 4 series event at Wilmot (Wis.) Speedway, before returning to Angell Park Speedway on Aug. 5. 

15-lap Semi Feature Winner: R. Ray.
10-lap Heat Race Winners: Waelti, D. Ray, Kuhn, Schenck.
Fast Time: Altig, 14.990 seconds.
Cars Present: 28 Feature Lap Leaders: Lundgreen 1, Hess 2-9, Ray 10-27, Hess 28-30.
*Keelan flipped on lap 1 of first heat race. Jim Fuerst flipped on lap 5 of third heat race. Chad DeSelle flipped on lap 1 of fourth heat race. Kris Hoegsted flipped on lap 8 of semi feature. All drivers uninjured. 

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 67x ALTIG 14.990 1 B.WAELTI 1 R.RAY 1 HESS
2 43NZ KUHN 15.013 2 SMITH 2 KEELAN 2 ALTIG
3 33 D.RAY 15.015 3 NOBLE 3 WIPPERFURTH 3 LUNDGREEN
4 3 B.WAELTI 15.105 4 WYTTENBACH 4 MECUM 4 KUHN
5 19 SCHENCK 15.113 5 LUEBKE 5 MAYHEW 5 B.WAELTI
6 8 PICKENS 15.304 HT 2 6 DULL 6 SCHENCK
7 8M MECUM 15.355 1 D.RAY 7 LUEBKE 7 SMITH
8 13 SMITH 15.371 2 FISCUS 8 L.WAELTI 8 WIPPERFURTH
9 44 HESS 15.407 3 STRATTON 9 HOEGSTED 9 FISCUS
10 41 LUNDGREEN 15.417 4 SHREFFLER 10 FUERST 10 R.RAY
11 2 STRATTON 15.455 5 R.RAY     11 NOBLE
12 17 KEELAN 15.460 HT 3       12 DULL
13 6 DESELLE 15.481 1 KUHN     13 SHREFFLER
14 4 WIPPERFURTH 15.509 2 BEAUCHAMP     14 MECUM
15 3R R.RAY 15.556 3 PICKENS     15 WYTTENBACH
16 9 NOBLE 15.570 4 LUNDGREEN     16 D.RAY
17 21K MAYHEW 15.574 5 HOEGSTED     17 PICKENS
18 28 FUERST 15.656 HT 4     18 BEAUCHAMP
19 7 FISCUS 15.659 1 SCHENCK     19 MAYHEW
20 67 LUEBKE 15.696 2 HESS     20 RAMSTACK
21 02 RAMSTCK 15.704 3 ALTIG     21 KEELAN
22 112 BEUCHAMP 15.731 4 RAMSTACK     22 LUEBKE
23 21S SHREFFLER 15.951 5 DULL        
24 38 WYTTENBACH 16.087      
25 56 DULL 16.223      
26 97 HOEGSTED 16.398        
27 7X L.WAELTI 17.410        
28 15 HATTON NT        

 

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF7/29/07
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 BRAD KUHN 1238 67 43NZ MICHAEL QUIN 1238
2 DAVEY RAY 1003 41 15 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 954
3 SCOTT HATTON 954 42 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 929
4 BRANDON WAELTI 929 23 44 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 920
5 MIKE HESS 920 31 33 DAN MECUM 818
6 DANNY STRATTON 855 76 19 RICK IMHOFF 784
7 DOUG SCHENCK 784 22 2 HANS LEIN 782
8 JERRY COONS JR 758 43 7 JIM FISCUS 633
9 AARON FISCUS 673 37 41 JONES MOTORSPORTS 612
10 NICK LUNDGREEN 612 28 6 JIM FISCUS 584
11 CHAD DESELLE 584 37 4 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 520
12 JOE WIPPERFURTH 520 23 5 RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT 492
13 MATT SMITH 514 12 3R MARK RAY 479
14 ROBBIE RAY * 479 79 14 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 448
15 BRIAN RAMSTACK   423 39 02 BRIAN RAMSTACK 423
16 TIM NOBLE * 401 37 17 ROB KEELAN 372
17 ROB KEELAN 372 27 9 JIM FISCUS 370
18 RYAN DURST 327 1 8 JIM FISCUS 364
19 JAKE SLOTTEN 322 6 21s BERNIE SHREFFLER 319
20 BOB SHREFFLER 319 16 57 RAB RACING 291
21 BRADY BACON 287 21 11 RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT 266
22 BUDDY LUEBKE 270 8 13 STEVE SMITH 264
23 KURT MAYHEW 250 16 67X ALTIG MOTORSPORTS 235
24 BUBBA ALTIG 235 19 5 BILLINGS- WALTERS RACING 228
25 BRYON WALTERS 228 7 91 AUTO AUCTIONS LTD 218
26 JOEL WYTTENBACH * 207 14 38 TOM - TAMMY BONG 207
27 DAN MECUM * 206 23 8 DAN MECUM 206
28 JASON DULL 171 14 43 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 198
29 BRAD LOYET 164 6 56 JASON-KEN  DULL 171
30 JIM FUERST 151 11 2B HANS LEIN 168
31 DAVID GOUGH 128 25 5 JOE LOYET 164
32 KRIS HOEGSTED 128 11 21K KURT MAYHEW 156
33 MICHAEL PICKENS 125 0 28 JIM FUERST 151
34 CHAD DREHER 111 5 32 RFMS RACING 135
35 A.J. FIKE 83 0 97 MARY HOEGSTED 128
36 DOUG JORDAN 76 2 12 ACCELERATION RACING 123
37 KEVIN EGGERT 70 5 69 BILL DREHER 111
38 CHASE SCOTT 68 0 51 AUTO AUCTIONS LTD 109
39 KEVIN OLSON 56 1 69 RFMS RACING 83
40 DAVID BUDRES 53 0 8 DOUG JORDAN 76
41 THOMAS MESSERAUL 51 3 98 DAVE EGGERT 70
42 LEROY WAELTI 48 1 14 REAL RACE CARS 68
43 CODY WEISENSEL 0 0 31 MANIC RACING 53
44           2X MARK BUSH 51
45   7X LAW MOTORSPORTS 48
46       1AU STEVE SMITH 46
47       12X ACCELERATION RACING 36
48       67 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 27
49 20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 0
 

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