Waelti captures Badger Midget Opener at Sandbox Arena
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By Bryan Gapinski New Richmond, Wis., March
29---Brandon Waelti captured the season opening Badger Midget Series 30-lap feature at the Amsoil Sandbox Arena at Cedar Lake Speedway, Saturday Night. The event was the first ever automobile race event inside America's newest indoor racing facility.
Waelti passed the initial two laps around the 1/4-mile dirt oval, before Dave Darland took the lead. Running multiple grooves Darland, Waelti, Bubba Altig and Jerry Coons Jr. pulled away from
the field. Four cautions between laps 7-12 slowed the event.
Darland and Waelti crossed the line separated by inches at the midway point. Exiting turn two Waelti drove under Darland for the lead. Waelti's two car length lead was erased with eight laps remaining when third and fourth place running Coons and Altig came to a stop in turn two. On the restart Waelti and Darland changed grooves with Waelti running the high side and Darland tried several low side passes, coming up two-car lengths short at the finish. Waelti drove the Jim Fiscus/Spike/Ford-Esslinger#7, and was followed by Darland, Aaron Fiscus, fast qualifier David Gough and Nick Lundgreen.
The series along with the legends cars and outlaw winged karts will run another complete program Sunday afternoon.
| QUAL | HT 1 | DASH | A-FT | ||||||
| 1 | 14 | GOUGH | 11.818 | 1 | RAY | 1 | DARLAND | 1 | WAELTI |
| 2 | 34 | LEJUNE | 11.824 | 2 | ALTIG | 2 | WAELTI | 2 | DARLAND |
| 3 | 67 | ATIG | 11.893 | 3 | LUNGREEN | 3 | FISCUS | 3 | FISCUS |
| 4 | 7X | WAELTI | 11.906 | 4 | NOBLE | 4 | ALTIG | 4 | GOUGH |
| 5 | 15 | HATTON | 11.934 | 5 | DESELLE | 5 | RAY | 5 | LUNDGREEN |
| 6 | 63 | RAY | 12.074 | HT 2 | 6 | COONS | 6 | HATTON | |
| 7 | 4 | HESS | 12.121 | 1 | COONS | 7 | ROSENBOOM | 7 | NOBLE |
| 8 | 19 | WIPPERFURTH | 12.168 | 2 | BUDRES | 8 | BUDRES | 8 | RAY |
| 9 | 71 | NOBLE | 12.200 | 3 | ROSENBOOM | 9 | LUNDGREEN | 9 | WIPPERFURTH |
| 10 | 43 | LUEBKE | 12.207 | 4 | WIPPERFURTH | 10 | DULL | ||
| 11 | 56 | DULL | 12.232 | 5 | HATTON | 11 | ALTIG | ||
| 12 | 8 | MECUM | 12.243 | HT 3 | 12 | COONS | |||
| 13 | 7 | FISCUS | 12.315 | 1 | DARLAND | 13 | PETERSON | ||
| 14 | 6X | ROSENBOOM | 12.320 | 2 | FISCUS | 14 | MECUM | ||
| 15 | 41 | LUNDGREEN | 12.321 | 3 | WAELTI | 15 | DESELLE | ||
| 16 | 2 | DARLAND | 12.330 | 4 | HESS | 16 | ROSENBOOM | ||
| 17 | 31 | BUDRES | 12.427 | 5 | LUEDKE | 17 | BUDRES | ||
| 18 | 5W | WALTERS | 12.485 | 18 | HESS | ||||
| 19 | 1 | PETERSON | 12.530 | 19 | LUEBKE | ||||
| 20 | 5 | COONS | 12.720 | 20 | LEJUNE | ||||
| 21 | 94 | DESELLE | NT | ||||||
| 22 | 21S | SHREFFLER | NT | ||||||
| 23 | 33 | RAY | NT |
BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF3/29/08
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS
| 1 | BRANDON WAELTI | 115 | 1 | 7X | JIM FISCUS | 115 |
| 2 | DAVE DARLAND | 104 | 0 | 2 | HANS LEIN | 104 |
| 3 | AARON FISCUS | 93 | 0 | 7 | JIM FISCUS | 93 |
| 4 | DAVID GOUGH | 77 | 6 | 14 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 77 |
| 5 | DAVEY RAY | 68 | 0 | 63 | PAUL PERKINS | 68 |
| 6 | NICK LUNDGREEN | 65 | 4 | 41 | JONES MOTORSORTS | 65 |
| 7 | BUBBA ALTIG | 64 | 0 | 67 | DAN MECUM | 64 |
| 8 | SCOTT HATTON | 60 | 6 | 15 | HUSTUN SOLUTIONS | 60 |
| 9 | TIM NOBLE | 56 | 8 | 71 | JIM FISCUS | 56 |
| 10 | JERRY COONS JR | 53 | 0 | 5 | RAJO WILKE PAK MOTORSPORT | 53 |
| 11 | JOE WIPPERFURTH | 53 | 5 | 19 | IMHOFF/DAVIS | 53 |
| 12 | DAVID BUDRES | 40 | 0 | 31 | MANIC RACING | 40 |
| 13 | JASON DULL | 40 | 7 | 56 | KEN DULL | 40 |
| 14 | MIKE HESS | 38 | 0 | 4 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 38 |
| 15 | CHAD DESELLE | 35 | 4 | 94 | DESELLE RACING | 35 |
| 16 | DAN MECUM | 32 | 0 | 8 | DAN MECUM | 32 |
| 17 | BUDDY LUEBKE | 32 | 0 | 43 | BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS | 32 |
| 18 | JON LEJUNE | 24 | 0 | 34 | JON LEJUNE | 24 |
| 19 | BRYON WALTERS | 0 | 0 | 5W | BILLINGS- WALTERS RACING | 0 |
| 20 | BOB SHREFFLER | 0 | 0 | 21S | BERNIE SHREFFLER | 0 |
| 21 | 33 | DAN MECUM | 0 |