Bill Malbrough returns after a successful sponsorship deal was closed last week, meaning Don Davis returns to the alternate rotation after his ninth place finish in Little Rock, but Steven Redden returns to the sidelines with another injury. He is replaced by Kenny Rose for the next fortnight.
The pack returns to Wisconsin this week and championship leader Darryl Lozier goes in heat one hoping to improve upon his recent form where he has missed two of the last four finals and had a best result of fourth (Texas Nationals) in his last nine events. He has third place man in the standings Will Thompson for company and he has also missed two of four finals and just four top five finishes in the last seventeen rounds; Thompson started 4th-1st-4th this season. Andy Bing and Norm Gibson are also involved in the first heat and they have four wins and four runner-up finishes between them.
Heat two sees the Arkansas Derby winner Tom Gariepy go up against Will Murphy and Ben Hadsell who, after making one final in eight and four weeks respectively, sit ninth and tenth in the standings.
The final heat has Scott Hutchins, who moved into second place in the standings after a third place finish last week; Joe Ramage who remains fourth despite just two finals (11th Lobster Nationals, 2nd SidelineStrategy.com Derby) in the last twelve; and Jamie Eilers whose eighth place in the Arkansas Derby was his second appearance in the five weeks since his back-to-back wins in the Summer Sizzler and Summer National Derby.
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