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Ray Blitzes Badger Pecatonica Field
By Bryan Gapinski
Pecatonica, Il,
July 12---Davey Ray easily outdistanced the field to win the 20-lap Badger
Midget Series feature Saturday Night at the Pecatonica Motor Speedway. The
win allowed Ray to regain the series point lead. On the opening lap Chad
DeSelle, who entered the evening as the point leader stopped bringing out the
caution. DeSelle retired from the event. Brandon Waelti paced the intinal
three circuits, while Ray quickly moved up to third place. Mike Hess passed
Waelti for the lead, one lap later Ray moved into second.
The pair pulled
away from the field. Entering turn three on the seventh lap Ray passed Hess
for the lead. At the midway point Ray began lapping the tail of the field,
and increasing his advantage over Hess each lap. Ray stretched his lead to
6.83 seconds at the finish over Hess. Waelti, Brad Kuhn, and Quinn McCabe
rounded out the top five.
Rick Mueller escaped injury in a practice flip,
while Nick Lundgreen escaped injury in a wild flip while battling for the
lead during the first heat race.
SUMMARY
20-lap Feature: 1.
Davey Ray; 2. Mike Hess; 3. Brandon Waelti; 4. Brad Kuhn
5. Quinn McCabe; 6.
Aaron Fike; 7. Scott Hatton; 8. Dan Boorse; 9.Boyd
Calvert; 10. Aaron Fiscus;
11. David Gough 12. Greg Lueckert;13. Critter
Malone; 14. Rob Keelan; 15.
Randy Fiscus; 16. Buddy Luebke; 17. Patrick
Jones; 18. Lance Altman; 19. Rick
Imhoff; 20. Steve Buckwalter 21. Jeff
Flesher; 22. Chad
DeSelle
B-Main Winner: Boorse
Heat race Winners: McCabe, DeSelle,
Buckwalter
Trophy Dash: Hess
Fast time: A. Fiscus, 22.399
seconds
CARS: 29 PURSE: $12,000 LAP LEADERS: Waelti 1-2; Hess 3-7; Ray
8-20
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