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Point Race Tightens With Ray Victory
By Bryan Gapinski
Sun Prairie, Wis., July 17--Davey Ray scored a wire-to-wire victory capturing
the 25-lap Badger/Gateway Midget Series co-sanctioned feature Sunday Night at
Angell Park Speedway. The win was Ray's second of the season and pulled the
top four drivers in the Badger standings to within 61 points.
Ray jumped into the lead from the outside front row, and began increasing his
lead each lap over the field. Ray enjoyed a two second advantage over Brandon
Waelti on the 10th lap. Ray began lapping the back of the field on the 13th
lap.
Two laps later the lapped car of Kenny Adams Jr. spun, and collected the third
and fourth place cars of Brad Kuhn, and Scott Hatton. Kuhn flipped after
contact with Adams escaping injury. Both Kuhn, and Hatton were sidelined from
the incident which also involved Ryan Pace.
Ray again pulled away from the field, while a great battle for positions in
the top five was taking place behind him. The caution appeared with
three laps remaining for a spun car. On the restart Ray driving the
RAJO-Wilke-PAK Stealth/Sesco-Mopar entry went unchallenged to the
victory while Mike Hess passed two cars in a half lap to take second at the
finish, followed by Chad DeSelle, Michael Pickens, and Waelti. Steve
Buckwalter escaped injury in a wild flip as he took the checkered flag on the
front stretch.
Series point leader Danny Stratton suffered engine problems in his heat race,
and did not start the feature and now leads Hatton by 12 points with Waelti an
additional 26 points behind, and Ray trails by 61 points heading into the
series event on July 24 at the facility.
SUMMARY
25-lap Feature: 1. Davey Ray; 2. Mike Hess; 3. Chad DeSelle; 4. Michael
Pickens; 5. Brandon Waelti; 6. Justin Allgaier; 7. Ric Forbes; 8. Rick
LaBroose; 9. Brett Anderson; 10. Rick Mueller; 11. Rob Keelan; 12. Ryan Durst;
13.Aaron Fiscus; 14. Steve Buckwalter; 15. Brad Loyet; 16. David Gough; 17.
Brad Kuhn; 18.Scott Hatton;19. Kenny Adams; 20. Ryan Pace; 21. Nick Lundgreen;
22. Cody Wisensel.
15-lap Semi feature Winner: Ray.
10-lap Heat Race Winners: Pace, Wisensel, Hatton, Gough.
6-lap Trophy Dash Winner: Hatton.
Fast Time: Pickens, 14.889 seconds.
POINT STANDINGS
National Midget Driver of the Year
1. Brad
Kuhn
771
2. Jerry Coons Jr. 536
3. Davey
Ray
488
4. Mike
Hess
479
5. Brandon Waelti 478
6. Danny Stratton 454
7. Josh
Wise
418
8. Scott
Hatton 408
9. Bobby
East
404
10. Dave Darland 395
Badger Midget Series
1. Danny Stratton 1092
2. Scott
Hatton 1080
3. Brandon Waelti 1054
4. Davey
Ray
1031
5. Chad DeSelle
787
6. Brad
Kuhn
762
7. Rick
Mueller
634
8. Aaron Fiscus
548
9. Nick Lundgreen 462
10. Kevin
Doty
449
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