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Steeped with Tradition: Many of the Sport™s Greatest Drivers Have Won the Fonda 200

FONDA, NY Tradition. A massive payout. And one of the Northeast™s most challenging dirt tracks.

It all comes together Thursday-Sat. Sept. 16-18 at Fonda Speedway with the running of the Fonda 200 presented by Southside Beverage. $53,000 awaits the winner of the 200-lap Bob Hilbert Sportswear Short Track Super Series (STSS) Fueled By Sunoco Modified event, with $1,000 reserved to take the green flag.

More than $140,000 in prize money will be distributed for the STSS Modified event alone during the three-day racing festival.

Many of the sport™s most prolific names have triumphed in the Fonda 200.

The first 200™ was contested in 1955 with Junior Johnson taking the victory as part of the NASCAR Grand National Series. Three other Fonda 200 events ran as NASCAR events with David Pearson winning in 1966 and the King™ himself Richard Petty taking back-to-back wins in 1967 and 1968.

Steve Danish (™63), Bill Wimble (™64), Lou Lazzaro (™69) and Harry Peek (™70) each took early 200™ wins before the event took a 13-year hiatus.

In ™83, Charlie Rudolph picked up his first of two 200™ wins with the second coming in ™85. Jimmy Horton won the event twice, once in ™84 and again a decade later in ™94. The iconic Jumpin™ Jack Johnson earned wins in ™86 and ™88, book-ending a Kenny Brightbill triumph in ™87.

Mike Romano earned the 1989 score, one year before Doug Hoffman registered his first of three 200™ wins. Hoffman took the checkered in ™90, ™91 and ™01.

Bob McCreadie won back-to-back 200s™ in ™92 and ™93. Brett Hearn was a four-time 200™ winner, taking the ™95, ™97, ™98 and ™02 events.

Steve Paine took the ™99 edition. Kenny Tremont took his sole 200™ win in 2001.

After a 17-year hiatus, BD Motorsports Media LLC brought the 200 back to Fonda in 2019 paying $53,000 to the winner. Stewart Friesen added his name to the list of event winners.

After COVID-19 forced the event™s cancelation in 2020, the Fonda 200 is back in ™21.

Eighteen drivers have registered 200™ victories since the race™s inception.  Will the ™21 edition produce winner No. 19?

The action kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 16 with the Sunoco Modified Underdog 33™ paying $2,000 to the winner for 33 laps. The Underdog™ is open to any Modified driver without a feature win at any venue in 2021. All other divisions will take part in open practice on Thursday.

On Friday, Sept. 17, STSS Modifieds will take part in 15-lap qualifying events. Also on the Friday program are CRSA Sprint Cars, Algonkin Motel Pro Stocks ($1,000 to win), Street Stocks ($500 to win) and Fonda Fair Four Cylinders.

After the completion of racing on Friday, the band Chasing Neon will perform in the Entertainment Building on the fairgrounds.

Saturday (Sept. 18) serves as the highlight of the weekend with the running of the Fonda 200. Leading up to the 200 will be STSS Modified B-Mains and the STSS Crate 602 Sportsman running a Precision Hydraulic & Oil North Region event.

Sunday (Sept. 19) is reserved as a rain date.

A complete Fonda 200 information center has been established on the Fonda Speedway website at the following link: https://www.thefondaspeedway.com/fonda-200/

The event will be broadcast live on FloRacing (www.floracing.tv) as part of the annual subscription.

Since 1953, the œTrack of Champions? Fonda Speedway has hosted the best in stock car racing. Under the management of BD Motorsports Media LLC, the speedway will operate weekly on Saturday nights from April through August plus several special events. Fonda Speedway is located on the Montgomery County Fairgrounds off New York State Thruway Exit No. 28 at 21 S. Bridge Street Fonda, NY 12068.

Fonda Speedway is on the web at www.thefondaspeedway.com.  To learn more, call the office at 518.915.4395, like Fonda Speedway on Facebook www.facebook.com/thefondaspeedwy or follow the speedway on Twitter: @thefondaspdwy.

Fonda 200 History of Winners1955: Junior Johnson (NASCAR Grand National)1963: Steve Danish1964: Bill Wimble1966: David Pearson (NASCAR Grand National)1967: Richard Petty (NASCAR Grand National)1968: Richard Petty (NASCAR Grand National)1969: Lou Lazzaro1970: Harry Peek1983: Charlie Rudolph1984: Jimmy Horton1985: Charlie Rudolph1986: Jack Johnson1987: Kenny Brightbill1988: Jack Johnson1989: Mike Romano1990: Doug Hoffman1991: Doug Hoffman1992: Bob McCreadie1993: Bob McCreadie1994: Jimmy Horton1995: Brett Hearn1997: Brett Hearn1998: Brett Hearn1999: Steve Paine2000: Kenny Tremont2001: Doug Hoffman2002: Brett Hearn2019: Stewart Friesen

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