Welcome to the Angell Park Speedway Fantasy Midget Contest. Based on the midget racing at Angell Park you are invited to play along every week in this free and fun game. Like most fantasy sports games, you will be given a score based on how well the people you picked do. Every week you need to log on and re-pick, even if you want the same exact people.

To get started, log in. Your log in from last year will do you no good. You’ll need to get a fresh one for 2009. You must use your real name in the spot that asks for it, in order to be eligible for prizes.

The rest is now easy (kind of). All you need to do is pick the driver in each column who will do the best in qualifying and the feature, out of every other driver in that group.

What, you don’t think Josh Wise will be here this week? Maybe he will, maybe he won’t. Your brother-in-law is a whole lot better than the others in the third column, you say? Well then don’t tell us, just pick him and show everyone how smart you are. We review the columns every week and do the best we can to make this a fun experience for everyone; including the evil webmaster (Jeff) and prizemiser (Bill). That‘s all part of the game.

Again, remember you must log on and pick every week. We do not carry over picks, except for our experts in the rare occasion they are not available to enter on a given weekend.

PICKS MUST BE IN BY NOON ON RACEDAY.

To be eligible for prizes you have to beat all the experts. Of those (few) who beat every one of our ringers, you will be notified if you have won a prize. Prizes include $10 food certificates at Angell Park, T-shirts or photographs, all at the discretion of the prizemiser. Early on, the best player will get a prize, but on the odd chance there are a lot of winners in a given week, we will try to share prizes with those who have yet to win one. Further, we will mail prizes free of charge, including overseas, if need be.

All decisions of the principals of the game are final.

Thanks a lot for playing and have a great season!

Let’s meet our Experts…

Last season, the first in the "Beat the Experts," format for Fantasy Midgets, was a good one. Not great, but good. We had to give out a few more prizes than we’d have liked. With some of the greatest minds in midget racing on our team, we hoped for nothing less than perfection, only to fall short. But 2009 is a new year and we’ll see if our people can’t skunk the public this year. But we are truly grateful for these people taking the time to play the game with us and we hope you will support those who have specific ventures in this great sport of ours.

Justin Zoch- Justin is the editor of "FlatOut Magazine." If you have yet to pick up a copy, we feel you will be pleasantly surprised when you do. "FlatOut" has correspondents and photographers at Angell Park nearly every week and no other national publication has given the teams of Angell Park Speedway more ink in the last ten years than "FlatOut." We can’t promise they’ll cover us in every issue, but more times than not you’ll see someone or something from Angell Park in their publication. Please click the "FlatOut," link on our homepage and subscribe today. As for his Fantasy effort, Justin ranked number 63 out of 131 in the 2008 point standings. We expect much more out of him this year.

Amy Schulz- As the president of the Badger Midget Auto Racing Association Fan Club, Amy is keenly aware of the ins and outs of the Badger Midget Series. The club’s fun and interactive events help keep fans connected to midget racing like no other club we know of. Their website is http://www.myspace.com/bmarafans We hope you will consider joining the club so you can get better connected too. As for Amy and her 2008 ranking, we are expecting a big jump from her 38^th place finish.

Ron Imberg- Call him what you will, Racetrack Ronnie or Prairie Dog, he’s the man that sets the tone every week, as he directs the track prepping crew of Angell Park Speedway. A Sun Prairie lifer, he’s often up early and going to be late, making sure our 1/3 mile track is in top shape. We can only hope he finds himself in better shape this season and rises above his 19^th place effort from 2008.

Bryan Gapinski- Considered one of the experts in all of midget racing, Bryan in not only the media representative for Badger, but he also is the founder of the National Midget Driver of the Year award. A copious compiler of midget stats, his website www.nmdoty.com keeps us up on all the midget racing across the country. See how your favorite driver stacks up against the rest of the United States, as Gapinski scores all of the events from every major midget club in America. His point system then tells us who is the National Midget Driver of the Year. In B-Gap, we are extremely pleased as he scored 4^th in the 2008 point chase and we expect no less in 2009.

Tom Lindner- Our star. Unassuming, humble, the original Fantasy Midget geek. Tom can be seen every week patrolling the pits talking with drivers under the guise of gathering data for track announcer Dave Shannon. But we suspect he’s also finding out what he can to help his Fantasy efforts. We can hardly argue with his second place finish to fan Daryl Benisch in 2008, but he’d save us some prizes if he could just do a little better in 2009.

Our rookie this year is Kyle Imberg. Don’t take this fantasy pro lightly though, he has studied racing at Angell Park for the entire off season. Kyle hasn’t missed a race at Angell Park since he was born and it didn’t take long for this young man to become addicted. During the offseason Kyle reviewed the 2008 racing season at Angell Park over and over again, he also goes back and reviews the historical races at Angell Park from before he was born! His favorite being the 1990 Pepsi Nationals that Kevin Doty won.  Kyle may also have a slight advantage sharing the dinner table with his famous father race track Ronnie. Although knowing the track prep routine didn’t help the legend much last year as he struggled against the top ranked fantasy players. Kyle’s looking forward to the 2009 season at Angell Park and being a fantasy pro has the four year old grinning from ear to ear. Don’t look for any tips from Kyle though, he’s pretty tight lipped about his picks.

Scoring Breakdown.