Loyet ties Badger Midget victory mark with fifth straight win

Photo by Jeff Arns

By Bryan Gapinski Sun Prairie,Wis., June 28---Brad Loyet scored his fifth straight Badger Midget Series victory, Sunday Night, capturing the 25-lap feature at Angell Park Speedway. The victory tied the all-time consecutive Badger Midget feature victory mark, for the 21-year old Missouri driver.
Aaron Fiscus jumped into the lead at the start, with Loyet improving four positions on the opening lap moving into fourth place. Second place running Bubba Altig slowed on the third lap, bringing out the caution. Fiscus paced two more laps before Loyet took the lead, one lap later Fiscus spun running in second position. 
Loyet continued his advantage, while fast qualifier Scott Hatton and Mike Hess waged a torrid battle for second place behind Loyet during the middle stages of the event. Hatton regained the second position and closed slightly on Loyet, when the event's fifth caution appeared, with two laps remaining. Hatton challenged Loyet on the restart, with Hess making a great pass for the runner-up position on the final lap. Loyet driving the Loyet Motorsports owned Spike/Ford-Esslinger No. 05, finished 1.1 seconds ahead of Hess, followed by Hatton, Chad DeSelle and Matt Smith. 
Hatton who earlier in the evening won the $750 Dash for Cash event holds a 23-point advantage over Loyet heading into the next series event on July 3 "The Mid State Equipment Sue Thiel Memorial" at Dodge County Fairgrounds (Beaver Dam, Wis.). A victory in the Dodge County race would give Loyet six straight series feature victories establishing the longest streak in the 73-year history of the organization. The series will complete the two-race weekend at Angell Park Speedway on July 5. In the Angell Park event Loyet will be seeking his fifth straight victory at the track, three short of the record co-held by Billy Johnson and Stan Fox. 

8-lap Semi Feature Winner: Budres.
9-lap Dash for Cash Winner: Hatton. 
10-lap Heat Race Winners: Erfurth, Altig. 
4-lap Qualifying Race Winner: Smith.
4-lap Trophy Dash Winner: Hatton.
Fast Time: Hatton, 15.100 seconds.
Cars Present: 17 Feature Lap Leaders: Fiscus 1-5, Loyet 6-25.

QUAL HT 1

SHOOT OUT

A FEAT
1 15 HATTON 15.100 1 ERFURTH 1 HATTON 1 LOYET
2 1 HESS 15.109 2 FISCUS 2 DESELLE 2 HESS
3 o5 LOYET 15.116 3 HESS 3 ALTIG 3 HATTON
4 13 SMITH 15.129 4 DESELLE 4 HESS 4 DESELLE
5 31 BUDRES 15.193 5 ROBINSON 5 ROBINSON 5 SMITH
6 19 DESELE 15.279 HT 2 6 SMITH 6 FISCUS
7 57 ALTIG 15.312 1 ALTIG 7 ERFURTH 7 DULL
8 37 ROBINSON 15.317 2 HATTON 8 FISCUS 8 MAYHEW
9 21K MAYHEW 15.342 3 LOYET 9 LOYET 9 ERFURTH
10 7 FISCUS 15.541 4 MAYHEW     10 BUDRES
11 56 DULL 15.795 5 BUDRES     11 PERKINS
12 25 ERFURTH 15.842 DASH   B FEAT   12 JOHNSON
13 17 KAISER 15.872 1 HATTON 1 BUDRES 13 ROBINSON
14 63 PERKINS 16.014 2 LOYET 2 ROBINSON 14 ALTIG
15 82 JOHNSON NT 3 HESS 3 DULL    
16 3 WAELTI NT 4 SMITH 4 PERKINS    
17 37x ROBINSON NT     5 JOHNSON    
       

QUAL DASH

        
        1 SMITH        
        2 ROBINSON        
        3 BUDRES        
        4 DULL        

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 6/28/09
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 SCOTT HATTON

864

 36 15 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 864
2 BRAD LOYET 841 31 05 LOYET MOTORSPORTS 841
3 MIKE HESS 719 29 1 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 719
4 CHAD DESELLE 663 21 19 IMHOFF/DAVIS 663
5 BUBBA ALTIG 551 20 57 RAB RACING 551
6 AARON FISCUS 488 15 7 JIM FISCUS 452
7 BRAD KUHN 457 33 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 441
8 BRANDON WAELTI 441 7 31 MANIC RACING 419
9 DAVID BUDRES 419 5 13 STEVE SMITH 405
10 MATT SMITH 405 8 41 JONES MOTORSPORTS 402
11 BRYON WALTERS 359 7 21S BERNIE SHREFFLER 358
12 COURTNEY ERFURTH 331 22 5W BILLINGS- WALTERS RACING 331
13 ERIC JOHNSON 301 8 25 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 331
14 JASON DULL 286 8 82 CHUCK JOHNSON 301
15 JERRY COONS 282 16 56 JASON DULL 286
16 BOB SHREFFLER 245 16 5 WILKE-PAK MOTORSPORTS 282
17 DAVEY RAY 217 6 21k KURT MAYHEW 211
18 KURT MAYHEW 211 9 28 JIM FUERST 163
19 JIM FUERST 163 4 33 DAN MECUM 161
20 PAUL PERKINS 128 2 63 PAUL PERKINS 128
21 ZACH DAUM 122 4 5D ZACH DAUM 122
22 TRACY HINES 104 14 24 TRACY HINES 104
23 DICK KAISER 87 4 11 ART WACHAL 99
24 JASON THERKELSON 84 1 17 DICK KAISER 87
25 JAKE SLOTTEN 78 0 87 ACCELERATION RACING 78
26 DARREN HAGEN 70 3 3H RFMS RACING 70
27 AUSTIN WEATLEY 67 0 73 SCOOTTER ELLIS 67
28 JOEL WYTTENBACH 67 8 38 TOM BONG 67
29 MARK BROWN 67 1 1X STEVE SMITH 67
30 JOEY MOUGHAN 45 4 55 JOEY MOUGHAN 45
31 DENE McALLAN 41 0 29 DENE McALLAN 41
32 BUDDY LUEBKE 0 0 7X JIM FISCUS 36
33       43 BULL DOG RACING 0