June 28, 2009 Live Updates

Race Lineups and Results

 
Badger Qualifying

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1 Scott Hatton 15.100

2 Mike Hess 15.109

3 Brad Loyet 15.116

4 Matt Smith 15.129

5 David Budres 15.193

6 Bubba Altig 15.312

7 Daniel Robinson 15.317

8 Kurt Mayhew 15.342

9 Chad DeSelle 15.403

10 Aaron Fiscus 15.541

11 Jason Dull 15.795

12 Courtney Erfurth 15.842

13 Dick Kaiser 15.872

14 Paul Perkins 16.014

15 Brandon Waelti NT

16 Eric Johnson NT

 

Heat 2 Starting Lineup

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1. 17 Kaiser

2. 56 Dull

3. 21 Mayhew

4. 57 Altig

5. 31 Budres

6. 05 Loyet

7. 15 Hatton

8. 82 Johnson

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Heat 2 Results

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1. 57 Bubba Altig

2. 15 Scott Hatton

3. 05 Brad Loyet

4. 21 Kurt Mayhew

5. 31 David Budres

6. 56 Jason Dull

7. 17 Dick Kaiser

8. 82 Eric Johnson DNS

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Eric Johnson did not start; they are having ignition problems

Lap 1 YELLOW for Hatton who spins in turn 1

Altig, Kaiser, Mayhew

Kaiser stopped in turn 2 while under yellow

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Qualifier Race Starting Lineup

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1. 13 Smith

2. 56 Dull

3. 31 Budres

4. 37 Robinson

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Daniel Robinson has switched to the 37T car

Dick Kaiser has scratched for the rest of the evening

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Qualifier Race Results

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1. 13 Matt Smith

2. 37 Daniel Robinson

3. 31 David Budres

4. 56 Jason Dull

 

B-Main Starting Lineup

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1. 31 David Budres

2. 56 Jason Dull

3. 63 Paul Perkins

4. 82 Eric Johnson

5. 37 Daniel Robinson

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B-Main Results

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1. 31 David Budres

2. 37 Daniel Robinson

3. 56 Jason Dull

4. 63 Paul Perkins

5. 82 Eric Johnson

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Feature Starting Lineup

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1. 56 Dull

2. 7 Fiscus

3. 21 Mayhew

4. 57 Altig

5. 19 DeSelle

6. 31 Budres

7. 13 Smith

8. 05 Loyet

9. 1 Hess

10. 15 Hatton

11. 25 Erfurth

12. 37 Robinson

13. 63 Perkins

14. 82 Johnson

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Feature Results

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1. 05 Brad Loyet

2. 1 Mike Hess

3. 15 Scott Hatton

4. 19 Chad DeSelle

5. 13 Matt Smith

6. 7 Aaron Fiscus

7. 56 Jason Dull

8. 21 Kurt Mayhew

9. 25 Courtney Erfurth

10. 31 David Budres

11. 63 Paul Perkins

12. 82 Eric Johnson

13. 37 Daniel Robinson

14. 57 Bubba Altig

By Bryan Gapinski:  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 (actually coming out of two...we managed to get a jump - first time of the night - from the pole.  Went through the middle of the track and led the BMARA feature field through turn one!  I left too much room on both sides, and all the top dogs got by going down the back straight though-JD), 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. 

Cars Present: 17   -    Feature Lap Leaders: Fiscus 1-5, Loyet 6-25.

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

 

After a little more than normal maintenance/inspection this week, we still managed to arrive before the qualifying draw!  There were only 16 other cars and the track seemed drier than last week, with a strong wind blowing through.  Weather.com predicted the storm that came through the Stateline area Saturday night, was set to go over Angell Park too.  I am not sure if they did get any rain or not, but the track workers almost spent an extra hour packing it in.

Hot Laps:  We hung kind of close behind Matt Smith in “Hawk house car”, and actually did run the car into the corners as hard as I should be.  It still seemed to me like the track was going to be very dry slick though, so I conferred with “tireman” Dwight Steffan and decided to drop the RR torsion bar back down to what I thought was a successful run the week before.  That was pretty much the only change we made.

Qualifying:  After a less than ideal start (not only did the notorious take-off issue seem to re-appear tonight, the car is very poor on the initial start too), I finally got up to speed down the back straight.  Went into three poorly though on the way to the green.  The first lap was terrible (I should have learned the normal “qualifying low line” going through three and four was not good) and the second lap was just a little better.  At least I felt that my mental state was up to the deal, but maybe my actual driving talent was just not enough.  Contemplating the run post-qualifying, I wonder (if anything), maybe I charged the corner in too much and could have let the car set a little better for the track conditions.  Dwight offered that maybe we should not have run that bar on this night.  (Like I mentioned though-never “blogged” it though-we had a good run last week going back to that set-up…gotta love dirt racing…track changes every week).

Heat:  Started on the outside front row (kind of our theme for the last month or so).  Although I have been impressed with the starts since Wilmot the middle of June, I and the car did not take off like we should have.  Polesitter Dick Kaiser got the jump on me going in to one, and his engine shot oil all over my face shield coming out of two.  I gave up a bunch of ground anyway and fell to the back.  There was an early race caution (eventually Dick’s ride gave up) and I was able to get my head into things.  Eventually got a rhythm going and even moved up higher on the track, as it appeared the rest of the  field was too.  Towards the end of the race, I hit the turn three cushion and the car got up off all four wheels (last week, I swear I almost flipped three times).  Thinking that bar was too soft, I basically just brought the car home.  Managed to finish 6th though, so that secured a spot for us in the four car qualifying race.           

The way the qualifying times worked out, started on the front row!