Angell Park IRA and Badger Midgets Results and Stories

Scotty Thiel 6/9/17
 
Angell Park Speedway
Sun Prairie, WI
 
IRA
Badger Midgets
 
30 Sprints
14 Midgets
 
IRA
 
Ian Madsen (4th car out to time) set quick time over the field with a lap of 11.913 seconds.  Scotty Thiel (6th car out) was second quick, followed by Tayler Malsam (1st), Parker Price-Miller (12th), Tony Stewart (3rd), Danny Lasoski (27th), Bill Balog (10th), Mike Reinke (14th), Steve Meyer (8th) and Austin McCarl (16th). Scott Uttech failed to get a time in, but was back for his heat.

Jereme Schroeder Heat one (started): 1. Balog 17B (2) 2. A. McCarl 17A (1) 3. Madsen 18m (4) 4. Price-Miller 2 (3) 5. Terry McCarl 24 (5) 6. Matt Vandervere 10V (6) / 7. Jereme Schroeder 43 (7) 8. Chris Dodd 01 (9) 9. Mike Decker 12 (10) 10. Dave Uttech 68 (8)
 
Heats were 10 laps and took the top six to the feature.  The heat winners and the next seven quickest qualifiers who made it through their heats redrew for their positions in the first five rows of the feature.  A. McCarl led Price-Miller and Balog early in this one.  Vandervere would get by Schroeder for the sixth and final transfer.  On lap four, Balog drove by Price-Miller for second.  Madsen would do the same to move into third on lap 7.  A. McCarl appeared to be gone, but a flat right rear allowed Balog to close and take the win on the last lap.
 
Heat two (started): 1. Stewart 14 (3) 2. Scott Neitzel 2w (1) 3. Thiel 64 (4) 4. Reinke 02 (2) 5. Kyle Marten 99 (5) 6. Russell Borland 23 (7) / 7. Wayne Modjeski 14AJ (6) 8. Ryan Irwin 56 (8) 9. Keith Fellner 18 (9) DNS – Kris Spitz 4K
 
Neitzel led Stewart and Reinke early.  Thiel was on the move, taking third from Reinke on lap three.  Thiel closed on Stewart for second and shot under him in turn two to take the spot briefly, showing Tony his line.  Stewart shot back by, and used the low groove to run down Neitzel.  He would pass him for the win coming for the white flag.
 
Heat three (started): 1. Daniel Harding 12H (1) 2. Lasoski 1m (3) 3. Meyer 85m (2) 4. Jeremy Schutltz 5J (5) 5. Malsam 26 (4) 6. Scott Uttech 7 (10) / 7. Blake Nimee 79 (7) 8. Josh Walter 12w (6) 9. Dennis Spitz 41 (8) 10. Max McGhee 71 (9)
 
Harding led Lasoski and Meyer for the duration.  S. Uttech moved from the tail into a transfer spot by lap four.  Nimee would battle back on the high side and claim it, and the two would trade the spot three times.  S. Uttech would nail it down by lap seven.

Bill Balog B main (started): 1. Modjeski (1) 2. Walter (2) 3. Nimee (4) 4. Schroeder (3) 5. Decker (8) 6. Dodd (5) / 7. McGhee (12) 8. D. Uttech (8) 9. D. Spitz (7) 10. Irwin (6) 11. K. Spitz (11) 12. Fellner (9)
 
Irwin spun before a lap could be completed.  Modjeski took command when the green fell and won going away.  Decker moved up nicely, as did McGhee, who knocked on Dodd’s door several times for the final transfer, but couldn’t make it stick.
 
A main (started): 1. Balog (5) 2. Madsen (7) 3. Thiel (2) 4. Price-Miller (9) 5. Lasoski (8) 6. Stewart (1) 7. Malsam (3) 8. Schultz (13) 9. Reinke (10) 10. Marten (15) 11. Neitzel (12) 12. T. McCarl (14) 13. A. McCarl (11) 14. Modjeski (19) 15. Vandervere (16) 16. S. Uttech (18) 17. Schroeder (22) 18. Decker (23) 19. Walter (20) 20. Borland (17) 21. Harding (6) 22. Meyer (4) 23. Nimee (21) 24. Dodd (24)
 
Stewart led Malsam and Thiel early in the 30-lapper.  Meyer shot by Thiel to get into the top three on lap two, but Thiel rode the cushion back by on the next circuit.  Stewart started entering traffic by lap six.  Thiel started taking off,  passing Malsam for second on lap eight and blasting by Stewart for the lead on lap 11.  Balog got by Malsam into third on the same lap.  Stewart and Balog battled back and forth for second before Balog sealed it on lap 16.  Price-Miller and Madsen also went back and forth for fourth.  Madsen would slide into the spot and then pass Stewart for third before the only stoppage of the race came with six laps to go.  Meyer’s top ten run was ruined when he tangled with the lapped car of Nimee.  No one was injured.  Meanwhile, Thiel had opened up a straightaway lead over Balog and didn’t need the restart.  He led Balog, Madsen, Stewart and Price-Miller back to green.  Thiel took the green, but Balog stayed on his tail.  On lap 26, he slid in front of him in turn two for the lead.  The three-car battle included Madsen, who would also get by Thiel on the same lap.  The win was worth $5,000 for Balog.

Bryan Stanfill Badger Midgets
 
Heat one (started): 1. Buddy Luebke 43 (3) 2. Bryan Stanfill 57 (5) 3. Zach Boden 2 (6) 4. Randy Reed 9 (4) 5. Mike Stroik 9s (2) 6. John Smith 59 (7) 7. Bryce Dunn 12 (1)
 
Eight lap heats accumulated passing points for the feature.  Pole-sitter Dunn launched over the turn four infield tire to start things but kept it going.  Luebke led Stanfill and Stroik early.  Boden made his move into third on lap two in his first midget start.  The race for the lead was on at the halfway point.  Stanfill led for two circuits before Luebke took command again.
 
Heat two (started): 1. Scott Hatton 1 (1) 2. Kurt Mayhew 21 (6) 3. Robbie Ray 3 (4) 4. Kyle Koch 71 (2) 5. Zack Emmons 6 (5) 6. Don Bigelow 04 (7) 7. Denny Smith 66 (3)
 
Hatton took off and left the rest behind in this one.  It was his first start since 2012.  Mayhew made a good move on lap one to get to second and held off Ray in good racing for second.
 
A main (started): 1. Stanfill (2) 2. Hatton (5) 3. Ray (1) 4. Luebke (3) 5. Reed (6) 6. Boden (14) 7. Emmons (9) 8. Koch (7) 9. Mayhew (4) 10. Stroik (10) 11. Dunn (13) 12. J. Smith (8) 13. Bigelow (11) 14. D. Smith (12)
 
The 20-lap feature was mostly a huggy-poler around the bottom.  Ray led Stanfill and Luebke early.  Stanfill, from Bakersfield, CA was racing for the first time in six years.  He would take the point on lap four, when he snuck under Ray.  Hatton would take third from Luebke the same way on the same lap.  Mayhew spun while running fifth on lap seven.  Stanfill led Ray, Hatton, Luebke and Reed back to green.  Hatton would sneak under Ray for second on lap 10.  Stanfill was into lapped traffic on 16, and launched over an infield tire of his own on lap 18.  He kept it rolling in the lead.  A final caution came on lap 18 when Dunn got into the wall in turn one.  He would restart.  Stanfill would hold on to the win.