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SOCAL LIGHTNING SPRINTS

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SoCal Lightning Sprints Rained Out at Barona — Race for Heroes Up Next May 23–24

El Cajon, CA — April 27, 2026 — Last Saturday night, April 25th, the SoCal Lightning Sprint Car Series was slated to compete at its home track, Barona Speedway. However, Mother Nature had other plans, forcing the cancellation of the event.

The next race for the SCLS will be the two-day “Race for Heroes” at Barona on May 23rd and 24th.

Official SCLS shirts and caps are now available for purchase at the track or online via the SCLS website or their Facebook page.

The SoCal Lightning Sprint Car Series would like to thank the following marketing partners for participating in the inaugural season: AG Sandcars, Triple X Race Cars, American Racer Tires, Outhouse Coffee, and Cakes By Kim / Betty Crocker’s Pit Stop.

If you or your company would like to become a marketing partner with SCLS, contact Dustin Dumas at (619) 992-8308 or info@socallightningsprints.com.

SCLS President Dustin Dumas is also the proprietor of AG Sandcars. He sells and builds Lightning Sprints and is a supplier of Triple X Cars, American Racer Tires, and racing components. Anyone interested in racing Lightning Sprints can contact him at (619) 992-8308 or info@socallightningsprints.com.

2026 SoCal Lightning Sprint Car Series Points

1. Jeff Dyer, Yucca Valley, CA … 468

2. David Taft, Ramona, CA … 458

3. Shane Sexton, Warner Springs, CA … 448

4. Peter Benker, Alpine, CA … 444

5. Brent Sexton, Lakeside, CA … 422

6. Cody Benker, Alpine, CA … 418

7. Ryan Dumas, San Diego, CA … 408

8. Parker Dumas, San Diego, CA … 396

9. Tyler Warner, Alpine, CA … 386

10. Kelly Weitzel, El Cajon, CA … 240

SCLS vs CLS California Clash Points

1. Aiden Lange … 252

2. Jeff Dyer … 235

3. David Taft … 224

4. Peter Benker … 223

5. Shane Sexton … 216

6. Braydin Collie … 206

7. Cody Benker … 195

8. Brent Sexton … 189

8. Cody Nigh … 189

9. AJ Bender … 189

BADGER MIDGET SERIES

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Badger Midget Auto Racing Association (BMARA), the oldest midget organization in the world. Some events are co-sanctioned by the United States Automobile Club (USAC). BMARA sanctions several midget car events at other nearby tracks.

Waelti Finds Cushion Comfortable In AFS Badger Midget Opener At Davenport

Roy Ophime

For about a season and a half Victory Lane eluded former Advanced Fastening Supply Badger Midget Series Champion Brandon Waelti. Not since June of 2024 had he collected a Lyco Manufacturing A-Main trophy from the venerable club. That all changed on Friday night when the veteran beat a field of 24 Badger and Midget Auto Racing Association (MARA) cars at Davenport Speedway.

At the drop of the green for the 25-lap race Adam Taylor in the Ray Racing Enterprises #3 took to the point with Waelti on his tail. Taylor ran low and Waelti high. The pair went neck and neck by lap-two. Waelti set sail from there amassing at least a half-straightaway lead.

Waelti encountered lapped traffic at about the mid-way point allowing Jake Neuman to gain some ground now in second. With seven laps left Jake Dohner jumped the rear tire of a car that had slowed in turn-two and went for a flip bringing out the red flag. Dohner climbed out of the car on his own and appeared to be alright.

With former Badger competitor Bob Shreffler pacing the field in his familiar blue Jeep pace/push truck, it was Waelti, Neuman, Zach Boden, Tyler Roth and Jacob Sollenberger in the top five. A master of the restart, Waelti was three lengths ahead of Neuman by the time they were in turn-one when racing resumed and the Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, veteran driver went on to take the checkers.

Waelti had been concentrating harder than ever on his off-season program as he cut back on beer and cookies. He also started working out a bit. The effort paid off and he rewarded himself with his favorite post-race beverage and a chocolate chip cookie, the latter of which he had not sampled since January.

OTHER ACTION / NOTES

For the rest of the night the accolades were spread around quite a bit.

Will Gerrits took Rod End Supply Fast Time honors and earned the rights to the Schoenfeld Headers Invert Draw.

Eric Blumer scored the first heat win of his career in Auto Meter Heat-One. A late-race pass on the high groove over leader Nick Kilian gave Blumer the slim win over a charging Cody Weisensel.

Matt Rechek and Todd Kluever split Harrison Kleven as the trio batted at the drop of the green. It wasn't long before Luke Wackerlin powered around the top and drove off to an easy Hoosier Racing Tire Heat-Two win.

Behling Racing Equipment Heat-Three Jacob Sollenberger a MARA regular, followed by Neuman and Gerrits.

The Bob Tattersall Spankins Motorsports Hard Charger award went to Tommy Colburn who charged from 21st to finish tenth.

The Last Place Bonus in Loving Memory of Addison Dahlke went to Matt Rechek.

Spankins Motorsports Rookie of the Race honors were collected by Spyder Akright.

Mike Gebhard was the CASM Safety Products Hard Luck recipient.

The AFS BMARA would like to thank 1855 Saloon and Grill in downtown Cottage Grove, WI and High Performance Lubricants for their support of the series.

Tyler Roth, a MARA regular, had a quietly positive night finishing fourth with fellow MARA driver Sollenberger in fifth. Boden's podium finish will keep him in the top spot in the MARA point chase.

Sunday morning Dohner confirmed he was doing fine. He had a lot of work to do but planned to have "The Red Duce" ready for the Dahlke Memorial.

TAKE AWAYS

The Davenport Speedway facilities were top-notch with clean, modern grounds and a welcoming staff. Waelti took advantage of the unique Competitive Concrete Co. Victory Lane configuration as he drove up a ramp that was nearly a story high and stood above the track for his interview with Badger announcer Eric Huenefeld.

Billed as a quarter-mile track, Davenport races much bigger than that. It's built within a now shuttered half-mile and shares the front straightaway with the bigger track's footprint. This makes for dramatic runs off turn-four that many cars took advantage of.

Waelti noted in his interview that tire management was important. Fredrickson-Unger driver Mike Unger proved the point with his bald right rear Hoosier displayed on the team's Facebook page.

UP NEXT

Next weekend is the first doubleheader for the AFS Badger Midget Series starting with Healthcare Workers Appreciation Night at Wilmot Raceway (Wilmot, WI). Badger will share the card with the Wisconsin wingLESS Sprint Cars and local classes on Saturday, May 16.

Sunday, May 17, it's the biggest payday of the Badger season. Angell Park Speedway is the venue for the Dahlke Memorial. Fans and sponsors pony up extra cash which goes toward lap money and other contingencies. The funds are spread around and all drivers find a little (or a lot) extra in their race check. There is still time to donate, just check out the Badger Facebook page to learn how you can help.

Follow the Badger Midget Facebook page for updates this week and the pages of the tracks for official information and updates.

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS

Lyco Manufacturing A - Feature (25 Laps): 1. 3W-Brandon Waelti[2]; 2. 57R-Jake Neuman[8]; 3. 51B-Zach Boden[3]; 4. 18-Tyler Roth[5]; 5. 5-Jacob Sollenberger[14]; 6. 40-Will Gerrits[7]; 7. 15C-RJ Corson[9]; 8. 20-Cody Weisensel[10]; 9. 3R-Adam Taylor[1]; 10. 31-Tommy Colburn[21]; 11. 56X-Mark Chisholm[18]; 12. 8D-Miles Doherty[19]; 13. 7-Brian Peterson[22]; 14. 67U-Mike Unger[20]; 15. 68-Eric Blumer[11]; 16. 17-Nick Kilian[13]; 17. 53A-Spyder Akright[23]; 18. 29-Harrison Kleven[12]; 19. 51-Chris Young[24]; 20. (DNF) 55-Todd Kluever[6]; 21. (DNF) 73W-Luke Wackerlin[4]; 22. (DNF) 4K-Charles Kunz[15]; 23. (DNF) 2-Jake Dohner[16]; 24. (DNF) 57-Matt Rechek[17]

Auto Meter Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 68-Eric Blumer[3]; 2. 20-Cody Weisensel[4]; 3. 51B-Zach Boden[6]; 4. 18-Tyler Roth[7]; 5. 17-Nick Kilian[1]; 6. 56X-Mark Chisholm[5]; 7. 67U-Mike Unger[2]; 8. 53A-Spyder Akright[8]

Hoosier Tire Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 73W-Luke Wackerlin[6]; 2. 55-Todd Kluever[7]; 3. 15C-RJ Corson[4]; 4. 3R-Adam Taylor[5]; 5. 29-Harrison Kleven[2]; 6. 57-Matt Rechek[3]; 7. 51-Chris Young[8]; 8. 81-Mike Gebhard[1]

Behlings Race Products Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 5-Jacob Sollenberger[2]; 2. 57R-Jake Neuman[5]; 3. 40-Will Gerrits[8]; 4. 3W-Brandon Waelti[6]; 5. 4K-Charles Kunz[1]; 6. 2-Jake Dohner[3]; 7. 8D-Miles Doherty[7]; 8. 31-Tommy Colburn[4]; 9. 7-Brian Peterson[9]

Rod End Supply Fast Time Qualifying (100 Laps): 1. 40-Will Gerrits, 16.794[22]; 2. 55-Todd Kluever, 16.834[4]; 3. 18-Tyler Roth, 16.969[23]; 4. 8D-Miles Doherty, 17.004[5]; 5. 73W-Luke Wackerlin, 17.047[18]; 6. 51B-Zach Boden, 17.049[7]; 7. 3W-Brandon Waelti, 17.053[20]; 8. 3R-Adam Taylor, 17.132[1]; 9. 56X-Mark Chisholm, 17.170[6]; 10. 57R-Jake Neuman, 17.212[2]; 11. 15C-RJ Corson, 17.228[10]; 12. 20-Cody Weisensel, 17.245[17]; 13. 31-Tommy Colburn, 17.302[16]; 14. 57-Matt Rechek, 17.352[15]; 15. 68-Eric Blumer, 17.405[19]; 16. 2-Jake Dohner, 17.674[12]; 17. 29-Harrison Kleven, 17.791[11]; 18. 53A-Spyder Akright, 17.791[9]; 19. 5-Jacob Sollenberger, 17.954; 20. 81-Mike Gebhard, 18.010[13]; 21. 67U-Mike Unger, 18.012[3]; 22. 4K-Charles Kunz, 18.183; 23. 51-Chris Young, 18.602[21]; 24. 17-Nick Kilian, 19.267[14]; 25. (DNS) 7-Brian Peterson

Photo by Roy Ophime
Article by Bill Blumer Jr.

AFS Badger Midget Series and MARA Set For Davenport Speedway Friday

The Advanced Fastening Supply Badger Midget Auto Racing Association opens the 2026 season this Friday, May 8, at Davenport Speedway. It's Badger's first trip to the Hawkeye state since 2022 when they raced at Dubuque Fairgrounds Speedway. In 2021 the club was slated to run Davenport, but the event was rained out.

When they pull into Davenport, Zach Boden will have a leg up on the field as he already has one win under his belt with the Midget Auto Racing Association (MARA) where he took that club's opener two weeks prior at Lincoln Speedway. The Davenport go is a co-sanctioned event between the two sister organizations. Boden is ready. "We're excited to get back to Iowa at a place we've never been. We're looking forward to getting the Badger season back underway and seeing the fans in the stands again," he noted.

The last five years Badger's opener has yielded five different victors at four different opening night tracks. In 2021 the Dubuque Fair Grounds Speedway opened the season with a win by Andy Baugh. The following season Jake Neuman took Bill Ecker's #57 to Victory Lane, besting 27 entries on the night at Sycamore Speedway. Kankakee Speedway in Illinois was the place where Adam Taylor opened the season with the win enroute to the 2023 Badger Championship. Matt Rechek scored a popular hometown win in 2024 at the now defunct Beaver Dam Raceway.

Last year at Beaver Dam, Parker Jones charged from the outside of row-four to win the opener in a season where he'd break Landy Scott's consecutive win record within Badger. Jones went on to take his second consecutive series championship.

The Bumper to Bumper / Auto Value IRA Outlaw Sprint Series is also on the card Friday along with local classes and the night's activities will stream live on FloRacing.

Please check Davenport Speedway's pages for all official information regarding gate times and costs.

Article by Bill Blumer Jr.
Photo by Roy Ophime

Submitted By: William Blumer

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