Sun Prairie, Wis., Jan. 28—The 2011 Badger Midget Series Rookie of the Year will be awarded a $1,000 bonus at the conclusion of the 2011 racing season. The announcement was made following the Badger Board meeting earlier this week.
The 2011 Diamond Anniversary season will mark the 75th year of sanctioning midget auto racing, for the country’s oldest midget auto racing organization. Badger began awarding the Rookie of the Year honors during the 1960 season, with Matt Tague claiming the freshman honors. Tague, Dave Ray (1973), Dan Fredenberg (1975), Ken Biertzer (1976) and Dan Boorse (1978) are the only five drivers to be Rookie of the Year and go onto win the Badger Driver’s Championship.
Badger Cars will again be using Hoosier Racing Tires on all four wheels at all sanctioned events during the season. The season kicks-off on May 14-15 with a doubleheader event at Angell Park Speedway, co-sanctioned with the USAC National
Midget Series.
Past Badger Midget Rookie of the Year Winners: 1960-Matt Tague; 1961-Dale Dable; 1962-Dave Whitehorse; 1963-Dick Linder & Jim Karow; 1964-Ty Oney; 1965-Ron Pfeil; 1966-Deb Langsdorf; 1967-Bill Engelhart; 1968-Don Stokes; 1969-Joe Krautkramer; 1970-Jerry Hardy; 1971-Mike Dannfeldt; 1972-George Carey; 1973-Dave Ray; 1974-Mike Fesler; 1975-Dan Fredenberg; 1976-Ken Biertzer; 1977-Don Tyler; 1978-Dan Boorse; 1979-Larry Hillerud; 1980-Pat Sholtis; 1981-Chris Maxson; 1982-Tom Teators; 1983-John Callahan; 1984-Al Schmidt; 1985- Mike McNulty; 1986-Sue Spencer; 1987-Paul Stender; 1988-Bob Mueller Jr.; 1989-Bill Berg; 1990-Roger Miller; 1991-Dick Kaiser; 1992-Dan Gish; 1993-Roger Corrigan; 1994-Aaaron Fiscus; 1995-Mike Fell; 1996-Nick Lundgreen; 1997-John Jones; 1998-Greg Ganrath; 199-Alex Crimmings; 2000-Kevin Eggert; 2001-Johnny Komppa; 2002-Brian Claas; 2003-Jake Slotten; 2004-Alex Coonan; 2005-Brian Ramstack; 2006-Joe Wipperfurth; 2007-Robbie Ray; 2008-not awarded; 2009-Courtney Erfurth; 2010-not awarded.