Coons scores late-race victory
Kuhn clinches Badger Championship

By Bryan Gapinski
Sun Prairie, Wis., Aug. 27---Jerry Coons Jr. scored a dramatic late-race victory winning the 30-lap Hall of Fame Midget Classic, Badger Midget Series feature Sunday Night at Angell Park Speedway. Avon, Indiana's Brad Kuhn finished fourth in the feature and clinched the driver and car owner championships' with one race remaining. Kuhn becomes the 40th different driver champion in the organizations 70-year history and the first champion from the state of Indiana.
Scott Hatton jumped into the lead at the start of the feature, closely followed by Brady Bacon and Kuhn. Bacon slowed with a flat tire causing the events first caution on lap seven. On the restart Hatton led Kuhn and Coons. One lap later the caution appeared when last week's winner Adam Clarke spun. 
Hatton stretched his lead over the field and held a 2.3 second lead over Kuhn, fast qualifier Danny Stratton and Coons at the midway point. Jimi Quin stalled on the track three laps later erasing Hatton's advantage. Hatton again pulled away from the trio of Stratton, Coons and Kuhn who waged a torrid battle for second place. Coons moved into second on the 21st lap pulling away from Stratton and Kuhn. 
One lap later Hatton's engine began to miss-fire due to ignition problems. Coons began cutting into Hatton's 2.6 second lead. With five laps remaining Hatton's advantage was three-car lengths. Coons pulled to Hatton's rear bumper with three laps remaining. As the pair crossed the start/finish line one lap later Coons drove under Hatton taking the lead entering turn one. Coons driving the Ralph Wilke & Joe Vukelich owned Spike/Sesco-Mopar finished 2.67 seconds ahead of Hatton, Stratton, Kuhn and Steve Buckwalter as 19-cars finished on the lead lap of the event.
The 25th annual Fireman's Nationals presented by Pepsi will conclude the season at the track next Sunday Sept.3. Badger will also sanction a special $3,000-to win feature on Saturday Night Sept. 9 at The Raceway at Powercom Park (Beaver Dam,Wis.).

QUAL HT 1 B-FT A-FT
1 2 STRATTON 15.332 1 RAY 1 STRATTON 1 COONS
2 25 BUCKWALTER 15.518 2 HESS 2 SLOTTEN 2 HATTON
3 12 SLOTTEN 15.545 3 MYERS 3 RAY 3 STRATTON
4 7X CARTER 15.576 4 WAELTI 4 CARTER 4 KUHN
5 74 KUHN 15.654 5 FISCUS 5 QUINN 5 BUCKWALTER
6 66 DURST 15.715 HT 2 6 RAMSTACK 6 MORGAN
7 5 COONS 15.763 1 BACON 7 HESS 7 SMITH
8 02 RAMSTACK 15.795 2 HESSERT 8 LIGHT 8 CLARK
9 99X BACON 15.802 3 KEELAN 9 DROUD 9 DESELLE
10 15 HATTON 15.844 4 SMITH 10 ERFUURTH 10 BACON
11 49 LIGHT 15.580 5 MAYHE 11 WAELTI 11 LOYETT
12 13 SMITH 15.857 HT 3 12 FISCUS 12 KEELAN
13 17X MORGAN 15.871 1 CLARKE 13 WALTERS 13 HESSERT
14 05 LOYETT 15.872 2 KUHN 14 FUERST 14 ERFURTH
15 32 FIKE 15.900 3 LOYETT 15 HOEGSTED 15 LIGHT
16 4 DROUD 15.921 4 WIPPERFURTH 16 DREHER 16 HESS
17 43N QUINN 15.925 5 BUCKWALTER 17 JONES 17 SLOTTEN
18 17 KEELAN 16.000 HT 4 18 DULL 18 RAY
19 8X PICKENS 16.045 1 PICKENS     19 RAMSTOCK
20 1AU CLARKE 16.055 2 DESELLE     20 PICKENS
21 5X HESSERT 16.056 3 COONS     21 QUINN
22 6 DESELLE 16.092 4 HATTON     22 CARTER
23 99 WIPPERFURTH 16.116 5 MORGAN        
24 21K MAYHEW 16.207 DASH    
25 4KO HESS 16.384 1 KUHN  
26 3 WAELTI 16.391 2 CARTER    
27 7 FISCUS 16.456 3 STRATTON    
28 39 BECKWITH 16.460 4 BUCKWALTER    
29 28 FUERST 16.485 5 DURST    
30 33 RAY 16.510 6 SLOTTEN    
31 69 DREHER 16.587    
32 25M MYERS 16.638      
33 56 DULL 16.661        
34 29 JONES 16.684        
35 21S SHREFFLER 16.740        
36 97 HOEGSTED 16.768        
37 12J MOUNCE 17.225        
38 14 ERFURTH 17.684        

 

BMARA POINTS STANDINGS AS OF 8/27/06
POSITION, DRIVER, POINTS, PASS PTS, CAR #, OWNER, POINTS

1 BRAD KUHN 1521 68 74 KUHN MOTORSPORTS 1618
2 SCOTT HATTON 1386 40 15 HUSTON SOLUTION RACING 1386
3 DANNY STRATTON 1292 53 2 HANS LEIN 1292
4 BRANDON WAELTI 1189 58 3 WAELTI-SCHULENBERG 1189
5 AARON FISCUS 1033 29 7 JIM FISCUS 1033
6 CHAD DESELLE 927 99 4 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 943
7 DAVEY RAY 908 33 43 MICHAEL QUIN 850
8 JIMI QUIN 889 13 6 JIM FISCUS 831
9 DEAN ERFURTH 764 50 14 JERRYATRIC MOTORSPORTS 764
10 DOUG SCHENCK 723 10 19 RICK IMHOFF-JOE WELKE 723
11 MIKE HESS 676 51 41 JONES MOTORSPORTS 644
12 NICK LUNDGREEN 644 35 1AU STEVE SMITH 630
13 ROB KEELAN 598 34 17 ROB KEELAN 598
14 JOE WIPPERFURTH** 527 51 33 DAVE RAY 543
15 HARLEY SLOTTEN 509 19 5 RAJO WILKE PAK 531
16 BRIAN RAMSTACK   483 20 99 BUTCH DAHLKE 527
17 BUDDY LUEBKE 463 25 02 BRIAN RAMSTACK 483
18 RYAN DURST 460 17 43 BULLDOG MOTORSPORTS 463
19 ADAM CLARKE 459 32 91 KASEY KAHNE MOTORSPORTS 450
20 BOB SHREFFLER 402 30 21s BERNIE SHREFFLER 402
21 MATT SMITH** 374 24 13 STEVE SMITH 374
22 BRYON WALTERS 363 0 12 ACCELERATION RACING 371
23 KURT MAYHEW 266 26 5 BRYON WALTERS 363
24 CHAD DREHER 258 29 8 JIM FISCUS 269
25 JEFF FLESHER 231 13 21K KURT MAYHEW 266
26 JIM FUERST** 225 15 69 BILL DREHER 258
27 JASON DULL 222 12 57 RAB RACING 251
28 DAVID GOUGH 217 20 56 JASON DULL 249
29 DOUG JORDAN 207 8 59 KELLY JORDAN 243
30 JON LEJEUNE 190 4 23 KARL WARNKE 230
31 KENNY ADAMS 177 1 28 JIM FUERST 225
32 KEVIN OLSON 176 3 8 DOUG JORDAN 207
33 PATRICK JONES 161 9 34 JON LEJEUNE 190
34 TUCKER CAVEN** 127 3 17 MIKE ADAMS 177
35 KRIS HOEGSTED 116 14 29 PATRICK JONES 161
36 CODY WEISENSEL 103 7 87 TOM BONG 127
37 LEE BECKWITH 87 6 82 A&G MOTORSPORTS 124
38 STEVIE WALSH 81 1 97 KRIS HOEGSTED 116
39 JASON THERKELSEN** 71 13 20 KEVIN WEISENSEL 103
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 66 Greg Nlson 10
51 23 STEPHANIE MEENTS 9
52 99X BUTCH DAHLKE 0
 

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