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Coons Tops Showdown At The Prairie
by Bryan Gapinski
Sun Prairie, Wis, July 27---Jerry Coons Jr. picked up a last minute ride, and
made the most of it Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. The Tucson, Az
driver captured the 50-lap Coca-Cola Showdown at the 'Prairie Badger Midget
Series feature. Coons drove the Karl Warnke Stealth-Fontana to his fifth
career victory at the track.
Chad DeSelle jumped into the lead, at the start closely followed by Coons, and
Dan Boorse. DeSelle, and Coons pulled away from the field. DeSelle began
lapping the tail of the field on the tenth circuit. one lap later a caution
appeared for a spun car. On the restart DeSelle paced the field. On the 13th
lap Tracy Hines hit the frontstretch wall, flipping several times. Hines was
uninjured.
DeSelle paced the final 12 laps, followed by Coons, Boorse,Brandon Waelti, and
Davey Ray, before a mandatory yellow appeared with the field stopping for a
ten minute break, before the second twenty five lap segment. DeSelle drew
number three forcing him to restart the second half in third place.
Coons led the field down for the start, and began pulling away from a tightly
bunched pack of cars. Ray moved into second on the 32nd lap. Coons held
a comfortable two second advantage over ray for the remainder of the event.
Coons finished 1.47 seconds ahead of Ray. Aaron Fike, Waelti, and Boorse
completed the top five.
Ray holds a 180 point lead over Boorse heading into next Sunday's event at the
facility.
SUMMARY
50-lap Feature: 1. Jerry Coons Jr.; 2. Davey Ray; 3. Aaron Fike; 4. Brandon
Waelti; 5. Dan Boorse; 6. Aaron Fiscus; 7. Scott Hatton; 8. Don Droud; 9. Chad
Deselle; 10. Randy Fiscus; 11. Rob Keelan; 12. John Jones; 13. Quinn McCabe;
14. A.J. Felker; 15. Chad Davenport; 16. Ric Forbes; 17. Nick Lundgreen; 18.
Rick Mueller; 19. David Gough; 20. Cory Kruseman; 21. Tracy Hines; 22. Dean
Erfurth
15-lap Semi-Feature Winner: Brad Kuhn
10-lap Heat Race Winners: Boyd Calvert, Droud, McCabe, Fike
6-lap Trophy Dash Winner: Ray
Fast Time: Hines, 14.822 seconds
NATIONAL MIDGET DRIVER OF THE YEAR
1. Aaron Fike 821
2. Tracy Hines 682
3. Dan Boorse 651
4. J.J. Yeley 650
5. Mike Hess 644
6. Bobby East 586
7. Davey Ray 564
8. Scott Hatton 494
9. A.J. Fike 483
10. Jay Drake 479
BADGER MIDGET SERIES
1. Davey Ray 1187
2. Dan Boorse 1007
3. Chad DeSelle 888
4. Scott Hatton 884
5. Aaron Fiscus 806
6. Aaron Fike 725
Boyd Calvert 725
8. Brandon Waelti 701
9. Brad Kuhn 638
10. Nick Lundgreen 635
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