Clarke holds off Stratton charge at 'Prairie

Sun Prairie, Wis., Aug. 20- Australia's Adam Clarke captured the Governor's Cup 50-lap Badger Midget Series feature Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. The victory was his third career series feature victory and came in his fifth start of the season.
Polesitter Aaron Fiscus jumped into the lead at the start, with positions two-five changing every lap in the competitive race. Brandon Waelti and Doug Schenck both made attempts to pass Fiscus on the eight lap with Waelti taking the top position exiting turn four. Buddy Luebke escaped injury on the 11th lap, when he flipped entering turn one. One lap later Schenck running third stopped on the track causing the caution. During the caution third place Danny Stratton pitted to replace a flat left rear tire, restarting the event in 19th position.
One lap after the restart series points leader Brad Kuhn made brilliant pass running the cushion and went from third place to the lead. Two laps later Scott Hatton moved into second place. Kuhn began lapping slower cars on the 23rd lap. 
At the midway point Kuhn led Hatton by four car lengths, on the same lap Hatton slowed with mechanical problems, retiring from the event.
Holding a quarter-lap advantage over the field Kuhn suffered a broken rear axle on the 28th lap, causing him to come to a stop on the track. On the restart Clarke led Waelti and Fiscus. Stratton meanwhile restarted in seventh position, and within one lap was in fourth place. With Clarke leading, Stratton then took over third place on the 31st lap and moved into the second position three laps later. 
With both leaders running the cushion Stratton pulled to Clarke's tail with ten laps remaining. That would be the closest Stratton got to the leader during the final ten laps. Clarke driving the Steve Smith Hawk Engine Development Spike-Hawk finished 0.95 seconds ahead of Stratton for the victory. Waelti, Davey Ray and Chad DeSelle completed the top five.
Kuhn holds a sizeable 130-point lead over Hatton with two events and a possible 252 points remaining. heading into the Hall of Fame Classic at Angell Park on Aug. 27.

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 74 KUHN 14.580 1 NOBLE 1 FISCUS 1 CLARKE
2 12 SLOTTEN 14.706 2 WIPPERFURTH 2 ERFURTH 2 STRATTON
3 1 CLARK 14.840 3 JORDAN 3 QUINN 3 WAELTI
4 19 SHENCK 14.876 4 LeJEUNE 4 WIPPERURTH 4 RAY
5 15 HATTON 14.978 5 MAYHEW 5 KEELAN 5 DESELLE
6 2 SRATTON 14.999 HT 2 6 DULL 6 FISCUS
7 3 WAELTI 15.037 1 DESELLE 7 LUEBKE 7 QUINN
8 43NZ QUINN 15.090 2 STRATTON 8 WALTERS 8 ERFURTH
9 13 SMITH 15.090 3 CLARKE 9 MAYHEW 9 SLOTTEN
10 7 FISCUS 15.254 4 OLSON 10 FUERST 10 WIPPERFURTH
11 33 RAY 15.275 5 SMITH 11 GOUGH 11 DREHER
12 7 FISCUS 15.317 HT 3 12 LEJEUNE 12 KEELAN
13 14 ERFURTH 15.347 1 HATTON 13 HOEGSTED 13 OLSON
14 17 KEELAN 15.354 2 RAY 14 MOUNCE 14 SMITH
15 4 OLSON 15.359 3 JONES 15 BECKWITH 15 JONES
16 91 DUERST 15.363 4 SLOTTEN 16 RAMSTACK 16 DULL
17 5W WALTERS 15.429 5 DREHER     17 KUHN
18 6 DESELLE 15.437 HT 4     18 HATTON
19 21S SHREFFLER 15.480 1 DUERST     19 SHREFFLER
20 29 JONES 15.590 2 KUHN     20 DUERST
21 28 FUERST 15.593 3 WAELTI     21 SCHENCK
22 02 RAMSTACK 15.639 4 SCHENCK     22 LUEBKE
23 69 DREHER 15.275 5 SHREFFLER        
24 56 DULL 15.836 DASH    
25 97 HOEGSTED 16.460 1 CLARKE  
26 34 LEJEUNE 15.732 2 SLOTTEN    
27 21K MAYHEW 16.004 3 STRATTON    
28 39 BECKWITH 16.054 4 KUHN    
29 8 JORDAN 16.060 5 SCHENCK    
30 99 WIPPERFURTH 16.149 6 HATTON    
31 8X NOBLE 16.220    
32 12J MOUNCE 16.243      
33 57 GOUGH NT        
34 41 LUNDGREEN NT        
35 9 NOBLE NT        

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 8/20/06
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 BRAD KUHN 1427 64 74 KUHN MOTORSPORTS 1524
2 SCOTT HATTON 1297 40 15 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 1297
3 DANNY STRATTON 1199 46 2 HANS LEIN 1199
4 BRANDON WAELTI 1167 58 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 1167
5 AARON FISCUS 1014 29 7 JIM FISCUS 1014
6 CHAD DESELLE 873 90 4 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 903
7 DAVEY RAY 868 31 43 MICHAEL QUIN 827
8 JIMI QUIN 866 13 6 JIM FISCUS 777
9 DEAN ERFURTH 732 42 14 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 732
10 DOUG SCHENCK 723 10 19 RICK IMHOFF-JOE WELKE 723
11 NICK LUNDGREEN 644 35 41 JONES MOTORSPORTS 644
12 MIKE HESS 636 48 1AU STEVE SMITH 572
13 ROB KEELAN 553 32 17 ROB KEELAN 553
14 JOE WIPPERFURTH** 520 51 99 BUTCH DAHLKE 520
15 HARLEY SLOTTEN 470 19 33 DAVE RAY 503
16 BUDDY LUEBKE 463 25 43 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 463
17 BRIAN RAMSTACK   454 20 02 BRIAN RAMSTACK 454
18 RYAN DURST 450 17 91 KASEY KAHNE MOTORSPORTS 450
19 ADAM CLARKE 401 24 5 RAJO WILKE PAK 427
20 BOB SHREFFLER 398 30 21s BERNIE SHREFFLER 398
21 BRYON WALTERS 350 0 5 BRYON WALTERS 350
22 MATT SMITH** 321 24 12 ACCELERATION RACING 332
23 KURT MAYHEW 261 26 13 STEVE SMITH 321
24 CHAD DREHER 248 29 21K KURT MAYHEW 261
25 JEFF FLESHER 231 13 57 RAB RACING 251
26 DAVID GOUGH 217 20 69 BILL DREHER 248
27 JIM FUERST** 213 15 59 KELLY JORDAN 243
28 DOUG JORDAN 207 8 56 JASON DULL 233
29 JASON DULL 206 12 8 JIM FISCUS 231
30 JON LEJEUNE 190 4 23 KARL WARNKE 230
31 KENNY ADAMS 177 1 28 JIM FUERST 213
32 KEVIN OLSON 176 3 8 DOUG JORDAN 207
33 PATRICK JONES 145 9 34 JON LEJEUNE 190
34 TUCKER CAVEN** 127 3 17 MIKE ADAMS 177
35 CODY WEISENSEL 103 7 29 PATRICK JONES 145
36 KRIS HOEGSTED 99 12 87 TOM BONG 127
37 LEE BECKWITH 87 6 82 A&G MOTORSPORTS 124
38 STEVIE WALSH 81 1 20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 103
39 JASON THERKELSEN** 71 13 97 KRIS HOEGSTED 99
40 MIKE STROEHLE 31 0 39 LEE BECKWITH 87
41 KEN DULL 27 5 79 RANDY POLEWCZYNSKI 81
42 CRAIG CAREY 26 0 11 ART WACHAL 71
43 TOM BIGELOW 12 1 16 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 69
44 MIKE DIBART 9 0 9 JIM FISCUS 49
45 57k RAB RACING 42
46       43NX JIMI QUIN 39
47       74X KUHN MOTORSPORTS 37
48       6X JIM FISCUS 20
49 5x CRAIG CAREY 14
50 23 STEPHANIE MEENTS 9
51 99X BUTCH DAHLKE 0

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