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Hess Tops Badger Midget Return To Wilmot
By Bryan Gapinski
Wilmot, Wis., June 18 - Mike Hess won a thrilling 30-lap Badger Midget Series
feature, Saturday Night at Wilmot Speedway. The event run before a stellar
crowd marked the first series appearance at the 1/3-mile track since Aug. 11,
1995.
Danny Stratton quickly moved from third to the lead as the field entered turn
one on the opening lap. With multi-groove racing occurring Hess used the
cushion to move into third place on lap four. Three laps later Hess took over
second place. Stratton and Hess ran wheel to wheel the next few laps
exchanging slide jobs, and using different grooves each lap. Hess took the
lead on the 10th lap, three laps later caution appeared for a spun car.
On the restart third place running Chad DeSelle made contact with another car,
and spun. On the next restart Hess and Stratton exchanged the lead several
times with Hess leading at the line. Series point leader Davey Ray caught the
pair and the trio ran wheel to wheel until Ray retired with engine problems on
lap 16.
Stratton led lap 18,but was passed by Hess on the next lap, and spun entering
turn two. The final 11 laps saw Hess lead a close pack of cars, until five
laps remaining when he increased his lead to 2.83 seconds at the finish.
Brandon Waelti finished second followed by Ric Forbes, Scott Hatton, and Kevin
Doty. Earlier in the night Hatton set a new one-lap track record in
qualifying, and also set a 10-lap record winning the heat race. Hess
established a new 6-lap record, winning the trophy dash.
SUMMARY
30-lap Feature: 1. Mike Hess; 2. Brandon Waelti; 3. Ric Forbes; 4. Scott
Hatton; 5. Kevin Doty; 6.Aaron Fiscus; 7. Craig Carey; 8. Jeff Flesher; 9.
Kevin Olson 10. John Jones; 11. Nick Lundgreen; 12. Chad DeSelle; 13. Brad
Paris; 14.Bob Schreffler; 15. Kurt Mayhew; 16. Buddy Luebke; 17. Patrick
Jones; 18. Jimmy Quin; 19. Danny Stratton; 20. Rick Mueller; 21.
Davey Ray; 22. Brian Ramstack.
15-lap Semi Feature Winner: Lundgreen.
10-lap Heat Race Winners: Hess, Waetti, Hatton.
6-lap Heat Race Winner: Jay Mounce.
6-lap Dash Winner: Hess.
FastTime: Hatton, 15.640 seconds (NTR).
Current Badger Points: 1.Davey Ray 620; 2. Brandon Waelti 606; 3. Danny
Stratton 545; 4.Brad Kuhn 502; 5. Scott Hatton 502; 6. Rick Mueller 396;
7. Chad DeSelle 360; 8. Dan Boorse 347; 9.Nick Lundgreen 327; 10. Craig Carey
324.
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