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Badger Kart Club Points Opener
April 10, 2005
Dousman, WI
Story by Mike Weaver
The Badger Kart Club opened up the BKC Bridgestone tire Championship Points
series this weekend at Badger Raceway. With clear skies and temps in the
70’s, quite a large crowd of racers came out to take part.
Apparently, not all the racers took part in the practice sessions the week
before as the rust was quite evident. Several bad crashes and plenty of
smaller ones really dragged out the day and officials had to cut the features
short for many of the later classes in the day.
One of the best races all day was the Yamaha Lite Heat Race 2. Cagey
veteran Mark Jung took the point right from the drop of the green flag.
However, he was challenged constantly by last season’s class champion Nic
Johnsrud and Ryan Rutzinski. The action was three wide repeatedly
throughout the race although the racers kept it extremely clean and never once
touched each other! At the end of the heat race, Jung prevailed, but he
admittedly said it was a tough race.
Austin Schmitt seemed to have his way with the Animal Sr. Lite class. Schmitt
won both heat races and took the feature by well over 20 kart lengths.
Scott Adler had very similar fortunes in Sr. Sportsman Heavy, winning a heat
race and demolishing the field in the feature. His son Joey also came up
roses, winning the SSX Jr. Can feature. However, Joey had tons of pressure
from Pat Olsen, who raced him clean, but came up just a bit short at the end.
Travis Kosik won big taking a heat race and the HPV Jr. feature by over 20
kart lengths each time. Aron Scalissi won Briggs Heavy by over 8 seconds
and took a close 2nd in Briggs Animal Sr. Heavy. Kelsey Bauer would be the
winner of that feature.
Shawn Campbell got off to the same start as in 2004 by winning the opening
feature race of HPV Heavy. Zack “The Iceman” Emmons made a
tremendous third-to-first pass to capture first place and the HPV Lite
feature. Tommy Anderson barely edged out Eric Sutcliffe for his first feature
win in two years by winning HPV Jr. Sportsman. And Robby Mueller got past
Kodiak Wirtz on the final lap of the Briggs Animal Jr. Sportsman feature to
capture the checkers!
Results
Briggs Animal Lite
1. Austin Schmitt
2. Kelsey Bauer
3. Patrick Flaherty
HPV Jr.
1. Travis Kosik
2. Jesse Wirtz
3. Jacob Feder
HPV Sr. Lite
1. Zack Emmons
2. Brian Weber
3. Nicole Baier
Briggs 4-cycle Sr.
1. Aron Scalissi
2. Lonny Roy
3. Ken Neitzel
125cc Shifters
1. Brian Julien
2. Randy Reichardt
3. Don Chrzan
Jr. SSX Can
1. Joey Adler
2. Patrick Olsen
3. Jared Kalnins
Expert
1. Tom Mayr
2. Terry Thomas
3. Joe Brenner
Briggs Animal Jr.
1. Gavin Hallman
2. Steven Wirtz
3. Mike Stroik
Yamaha Heavy
1. Mike Fuchs
2. Wayne Johnson
3. Scott Weber
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Yamaha Lite
1. Nic Johnsrud
2. Ryan Rutzinski
3. Mark Jung
Briggs Animal Heavy
1. Kelsey Bauer
2. Aron Scalissi
3. Todd Erickson
Junior Can
1. Justin Sund
2. Jason Foley
3. Autumn Berg
HPV Sr. Heavy
1. Shawn Campbell
2. Ryan McNeil
3. Dominic Petri
HPV Jr. Sportsman
1. Tommy Anderson
2. Eric Sutcliffe
3. James Bennett
2-cycle Jr. Sportsman
1. Kevin Bowler
2. Ben Hewitt
3. Andrew Kiedrowski
Briggs Animal Jr. Sportsman
1. Robby Mueller
2. Travis Sabatka
3. Kodiak Wirtz
Sr. Sportsman Heavy
1. Scott Adler
2. Darrek Travis
3. Nick Orth
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