Loyet scores third straight Badger win
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Photo by Jeff Arns |
By Bryan Gapinski Sun Prairie,Wis., June 14---Missouri's Brad Loyet scored his third straight Badger Midget Series victory, Sunday Night capturing the 25-lap feature at Angell Park Speedway. It marked the second straight event, Loyet, series points leader Scott Hatton, and defending series champion Mike Hess finished in the same exact top three positions on the podium.
David Budres paced the initial four laps before Loyet moved into the lead. Hatton passed six cars in the first five laps moving into fourth place. Loyet's straightaway lead was erased when the events only caution appeared on lap 9. On the restart Loyet again pulled away from the field. Loyet began lapping the tail of the field on lap 15. Both Loyet and Hatton contended with lap traffic.
With six laps remaining Loyet got stuck behind two slower cars battling for position, allowing Hatton to pull to Loyet's rear bumper. Loyet cleared the two cars, while it took Hatton another half-lap to make the passes. Loyet driving the Loyet Motorsports owned Spike/Ford-Esslinger No. 05, finished four car lengths ahead of Hatton at the finish.Hess made a last-lap pass to finish third, with Brandon Waelti and Chad DeSelle completing the top five, which saw the entire starting field finish the event.
Hatton increased his series points lead to 45 markers over Loyet heading into the June 21 event at Angell Park Speedway.
10-lap Semi Feature Winner: Walters.
10-lap Heat Race Winners: Loyet, Budres.
4-lap Qualifying Race Winner: Dull.
4-lap Trophy Dash Winner: Hatton.
Fast Time: Hatton, 14.961 seconds.
Cars Present: 15 Feature Lap Leaders: Budres 1-4, Loyet 5-25.
Next Badger Series Event: June 21 - Angell Park Speedway (Sun Prairie, Wis.)
| QUAL | HT 1 |
B FEAT |
A FEAT |
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| 1 | 15 | HATTON | 14.961 | 1 | LOYET | 1 | WALTERS | 1 | LOYET |
| 2 | 1 | HESS | 15.023 | 2 | ALTIG | 2 | KAISER | 2 | HATTON |
| 3 | 19 | DESELLE | 15.032 | 3 | FISCUS | 3 | JOHNSON | 3 | HESS |
| 4 | 57 | ALTIG | 15.116 | 4 | HESS | 4 | ERFURTH | 4 | WAELTI |
| 5 | 3 | WAELTI | 15.153 | 5 | KAISER | 5 | THERKELSON | 5 | DESELLE |
| 6 | 7 | FISCUS | 15.175 | HT 2 | 6 | SHREFFLER | 6 | ALTIG | |
| 7 | 5w | WALTERS | 15.203 | 1 | BUDRES | 7 | FISCUS | ||
| 8 | o5 | LOYET | 15.235 | 2 | WAELTI | QUAL | RACE | 8 | BUDRES |
| 9 | 31 | BUDRES | 15.279 | 3 | DESELLE | 1 | DULL | 9 | WALTERS |
| 10 | 17 | KAISER | 15.348 | 4 | HATTON | 2 | SHREFFLER | 10 | SHREFFLER |
| 11 | 21s | SHREFFLER | 15.356 | 5 | JOHNSON | 3 | KAISER | 11 | KAISER |
| 12 | 56 | DULL | 15.611 | DASH | 4 | JOHNSON | 12 | DULL | |
| 13 | 82 | JOHNSON | 16.092 | 1 | HATTON | 13 | JOHNSON | ||
| 14 | 25 | ERFURTH | 16.365 | 2 | HESS | 14 | ERFURTH | ||
| 15 | 11 | THERKELSON | 17.600 | 3 | DESELLE | 15 | THERKELSON | ||
| 4 | ALTIG | ||||||||
BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 6/14/09
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS
| 1 | SCOTT HATTON | 661 | 29 | 15 | HUSTON SOLUTION RACING | 661 |
| 2 | BRAD LOYET | 616 | 18 | 05 | LOYET MOTORSPORTS | 616 |
| 3 | MIKE HESS | 552 | 22 | 1 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 552 |
| 4 | CHAD DESELLE | 534 | 20 | 19 | IMHOFF/DAVIS | 534 |
| 5 | BUBBA ALTIG | 423 | 20 | 57 | RAB RACING | 423 |
| 6 | BRAD KUHN | 382 | 25 | 7 | JIM FISCUS | 381 |
| 7 | AARON FISCUS | 381 | 11 | 3 | WAELTI-SCHULENBERG | 366 |
| 8 | BRANDON WAELTI | 366 | 6 | 5W | BILLINGS- WALTERS RACING | 331 |
| 9 | BRYON WALTERS | 331 | 3 | 41 | JONES MOTORSPORTS | 327 |
| 10 | DAVID BUDRES | 324 | 5 | 31 | MANIC RACING | 324 |
| 11 | MATT SMITH | 275 | 1 | 21S | BERNIE SHREFFLER | 308 |
| 12 | ERIC JOHNSON | 250 | 6 | 13 | STEVE SMITH | 275 |
| 13 | COURTNEY ERFURTH | 236 | 16 | 82 | CHUCK JOHNSON | 250 |
| 14 | JERRY COONS | 223 | 16 | 25 | JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS | 236 |
| 15 | DAVEY RAY | 217 | 6 | 5 | WILKE-PAK MOTORSPORTS | 223 |
| 16 | JASON DULL | 209 | 8 | 56 | JASON DULL | 209 |
| 17 | BOB SHREFFLER | 197 | 14 | 33 | DAN MECUM | 161 |
| 18 | JIM FUERST | 123 | 2 | 28 | JIM FUERST | 123 |
| 19 | ZACH DAUM | 122 | 4 | 5D | ZACH DAUM | 122 |
| 20 | KURT MAYHEW | 115 | 9 | 21k | KURT MAYHEW | 115 |
| 21 | TRACY HINES | 104 | 14 | 24 | TRACY HINES | 104 |
| 22 | DICK KAISER | 87 | 4 | 17 | DICK KAISER | 87 |
| 23 | JAKE SLOTTEN | 78 | 0 | 87 | ACCELERATION RACING | 78 |
| 24 | DARREN HAGEN | 70 | 3 | 3H | RFMS RACING | 70 |
| 25 | AUSTIN WEATLEY | 67 | 0 | 73 | SCOOTTER ELLIS | 67 |
| 26 | JOEL WYTTENBACH | 67 | 8 | 38 | TOM BONG | 67 |
| 27 | MARK BROWN | 67 | 1 | 1X | STEVE SMITH | 67 |
| 28 | JASON THERKELSON | 66 | 1 | 11 | ART WACHAL | 66 |
| 29 | PAUL PERKINS | 58 | 0 | 63 | PAUL PERKINS | 58 |
| 30 | JOEY MOUGHAN | 45 | 4 | 55 | JOEY MOUGHAN | 45 |
| 31 | DENE McALLAN | 41 | 0 | 29 | DENE McALLAN | 41 |
| 32 | BUDDY LUEBKE | 0 | 0 | 43 | BULL DOG RACING | 0 |