Yeley Scores Last Lap Win At PowerCom
By Bryan Gapinski

Beaver Dam, Wis., April 24---J.J. Yeley scored an exciting last lap victory Saturday Night capturing the 30-lap USAC National Midget Series event at the Raceway at PowerCom Park, Beaver Dam. Yeley picked up a ride late in the week, and drove the Karl Warnke owned Stealth-Fontana to his 56th career USAC National victory.

Dave Darland jumped into the lead, while attention turned to Brad Kuhn who started tenth. Kuhn was sixth after the first lap, gained two more positions the next lap, and on the third lap passed Darland for the lead entering turn three. A caution for the stalled car of Cole Carter bunched up the field on the fifth lap.

On the restart Kuhn, Darland, and Kevin Doty pulled away from the field. Kuhn held a three-car length lead, when his motor began to mis-fire, causing him to slow, giving Darland the lead on the 13th lap. Darland began stretching his lead over Doty.

Darland began moving into lap traffic on the 17th lap. Cody Wisensel spun in front of Darland as he was about to lap him, causing Darland to hit the wall, and Wisensels spun car.

Fast qualifier Josh Wise moved into second on the 19th lap passing Yeley, however got over the cushion and hit the wall ending his race. On the restart Doty led Yeley, and Davey Ray. Doty held a two car length lead for the next ten laps. As the white flag flew Yeley slid in front of Doty for the lead entering turn one, however Doty regained the lead exiting turn two. Yeley used his second slide job of the lap to pass Doty exiting turn four. Yeley edged Doty by one car length with Ray an additional car length behind in third place.

Cory Kruseman, and Tony Elliott rounded out the top five. Travis Miniea escaped injury in a heat race flip. Series point leader Bobby east struggled after hitting the wall in qualifying, and used a provisional to start the feature finishing 14th. East leads Yeley by 15 points heading into the May
21 54th annual Hut Hundred at the Terre Haute (Ind.) Action Track.

PHOTOS by racingwisconsin.com  (click on photo for larger view)

USAC National Midget Car Series Results from the Raceway @ Powercom Park
BEAVER DAM, Wis. (April 24, 2004)
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Josh Wise, 20, Stewart-15.990; 2. Brian Gerster, 94, Stebbins/Davis-16.155; 3. Kevin Doty, 7E, WOR-16.192; 4. J.J. Yeley, 23, Warnke-16.253; 5. Davey Ray, 11, Wilke-Pak-16.273; 6. Dave Darland, 19, Lewis-16.300; 7. Jon Stanbrough, 27, Ventura-16.555; 8. Tony Elliott, 95, Wis-Co-16.579; 9. Travis Miniea, 28, Owen-16.742; 10. Cory Kruseman, 2, Lein-16.832; 11. Aaron Fike, 32, RFMS-16.858; 12. Brad Kuhn, 74, James-16.932; 13. Cole Carter, 7, Carter-17.000; 14. Mike Hess, 51x, Hess-17.033; 15. Harley Slotten, 87m, Slotten-17.081; 16. Teddy Beach, 125, Beach-17.107; 17. Chad Branson, 71x, Branson-17.250; 18. Brandon Waelti, 3m, Waelti-17.266; 19. David Gough, 82, Gough-17.298; 20. Ron Gregory, 22, Irvin-17.301; 21. Michael Kendall, 40, Carner-17.321; 22. Tom Hessert, 5, Hessert-17.387; 23. Buddy Luebke, 43, Bulldog-17.420; 24. Chad DeSelle, 81, DeSelle-17.480; 25. Shane Hollingsworth, 25, Venture-17.499; 26. Aaron Fiscus, 7A, WOR-17.522; 27. Kevin Olson, 6, WOR-17.552; 28. Cody Weisensel, 20x, Weisensel-17.580; 29. Mike Heiss, 00, Heiss-17.608; 30. Todd Beach,15, Beach-17.723; 31. Billy Wease, 12, Wease-17.750; 32. Aaron Pollock, 35, Gardner-17.956; 33. Korey Weyant, 99w, Weyant-18.006; 34. Patrick Jones, 29x, Jones-18.020; 35. Mario Marietta, 120, Marietta-18.023; 36. Brian Terry, 4x, Gilham-18.155; 37. Ryan Durst, 51, Durst-18.891; 38. Bobby East, 9, Lewis-18.990; 39. #4, Klatt-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hollingsworth, 2. Branson, 3. Ray, 4. Kendall, 5. Wise, 6. Carter, 7. Weyant, 8. Heiss, 9. Miniea, 10. Durst, NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Fiscus, 2. Kruseman, 3. Waelti, 4. Gerster, 5. Hessert, 6. East, 7. Hess, 8. Darland, 9. Todd Beach, 10. Jones. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Wease, 2. Doty, 3. Stanbrough, 4. Olson, 5. Gough, 6. Slotten, 7. Marietta, 8. Luebke, 9. Fike. 2:14.05

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Kuhn, 2. Weisensel, 3. Elliott, 4. DeSelle, 5. Teddy Beach, 6. Yeley, 7. Pollock,8. Terry, 9. Gregory. 2:11.41

SEMI: (10 laps) 1. Yeley, 2. Carter, 3. Darland, 4. Wise, 5. Gough, 6. Hessert, 7. Fike, 8. Beach, 9. Slotten, 10. Gregory, 11. Hess, 12. Weyant, 13. Terry, 14. East, 15. Pollock, 16. Mariietta, 17. Heiss, 18. Todd Beach, 19. Jones, 20. Luebke. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. J.J. Yeley, 2. Kevin Doty, 3. Davey Ray, 4. Cory Kruseman, 5. Tony Elliott, 6. Billy Wease, 7. Brian Gerster, 8. Brandon Waelti, 9. David Gough, 10. Kevin Olson, 11. Jon Stanbrough, 12. Shane Hollingsworth, 13. Aaron Fiscus, 14. Bobby East, 15. Chad Branson, 16. Chad DeSelle, 17. Josh Wise, 18. Tom Hessert III, 19. Dave Darland, 20. Cody Weisensel, 21. Michael Kendall, 22. Brad Kuhn, 23. Cole Carter. NT

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**Miniea flipped during the first heat.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 Darland, Laps 4-12 Kuhn, Laps 13-17 Darland, Laps 18-29 Doty, Lap 30 Yeley.

NEW NATIONAL MIDGET CAR POINTS: 1-East-147; 2-Yeley-132; 3-Darland-117; 4-Wise-105; 5-Ray-98; 6-Kuhn-96; 7-Carter-92; 8-Dave Steele-82; 9-Hessert-69; 10-Michael Lewis-65.

NEXT NATIONAL MIDGET CAR RACE: May 21 – Terre Haute (IN) Action Track – “Hut Hundred”