5/26/2024
Fonda Speedway
THE HOLLENBECK BROTHERS WIN FONDA FAIR FOUR CYLINDER FEATURES BEFORE RAIN COMES IN AND CANCELS THE REMAINDER OF THE RACING PROGRAM
By: Ron Szczerba
Fonda, NY – After three weeks of no racing at the “Track of Champions” Fonda Speedway, fans and drivers looked forward to being back in competition on Saturday evening in a racing program sponsored by Upstate Spray Foam. Unfortunately, after the checkered flag fell on the Fonda Fair Four Cylinder feature the rain came in and cancelled the remainder of the racing program.
“The amount of time that it would take to dry the track would be too long,” Fonda Speedway announcer Chris Moore told the crowd. “After all of the time that was spent getting the track right trying to run it in after all of the rain may put us in the same predicament that we were in a couple of weeks ago, so we are calling the racing program at this time.”
Mimi Lazzaro mentioned Bob McCreadie in opening ceremonies who recently passed away saying that the speedway was thinking of his family after their loss. McCreadie had a total of four victories at Fonda although he was never a regular competitor at the track including two wins in the prestigious Fonda 200 along with an opening day victory and a Syracuse qualifier win.
The 50/50 girls did a great job selling tickets on a rain shortened night with Bob from Gloversville winning the $1219 50/50 prize.
Kerrie Hollenbeck led lap one of the 12-lap Fonda Fair Four Cylinder feature after starting in the third position and held on to the lead until lap four when his brother Ken took over the spot. Ken held the lead for two laps before Kerrie retook the top spot and led the rest of the way for the win in the DOHC class while Ken finished second good enough for the SOHC victory.
The win for Kerrie was the 42nd of his career in the division while Ken took the 96th win of his career.
“Kenny is an outside man here at the track,” Kerrie said in victory lane. “It seemed as though tonight it was good to be on the outside until the rain started. I just kept sticking to the bottom where I like it and I never heard anyone behind me, so I just stayed there all race long.”
“This is actually the first race I’ve finished this year,” Ken said in victory lane. “Being its almost June that’s kind of weird. As the feature went on I really couldn’t turn the car tonight and a special thank you to Len St. Andrews who allowed me to use his car in the second feature a few weeks ago. We are really kind of out of the points, but it really doesn’t matter this year.”
The wins for both Kerrie and Ken were worth an extra $100 from Upstate Auto.
Next Saturday, June 1 will be Caputo Racing Night at Fonda with the CRSA Sprints in competition along with all other regular divisions.
DATE – 5/25/2024 – UPSTATE SPRAY FOAM NIGHT
RACING PROGRAM WAS RAINED OUT AFTER THE FOUR CYLINDER FEATURE
AMSTERDAM TRUCK CENTER MODIFIEDS
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 111-Demetrios Drellos[2]; 2. 84Y-Alex Yankowski[1]; 3. 1Z-Jessica Friesen[4]; 4. 1G-Darwin Greene[3]; 5. 4-Cody Clark[6]; 6. 34-Dave Constantino[5]; 7. 97-Bobby Hackel IV[7]; 8. 9S-Matt Sheppard[8]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Stewart Friesen[2]; 2. 42-Tucker O'Connor[1]; 3. 21C-Brian Calabrese[3]; 4. 93-Ryan Odasz[5]; 5. 15M-Daniel Morgiewicz Jr[4]; 6. 21P-Luciano (Pep) Corradi[6]; 7. 27-Jason Reome[7]; 8. 66-Don Bellen[8]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 7MM-Michael Maresca[3]; 2. 85-Jack Lehner[5]; 3. 20C-Craig Hanson[1]; 4. 24P-Brian Pessolano[2]; 5. 1-Rocky Warner[8]; 6. 35-Chris Curtis[6]; 7. 2RJ-Ronnie Johnson[7]; 8. 76-Jamike Sowle[4]
Hot Laps: 1. 44-Stewart Friesen, 00:19.137[9]; 2. 9S-Matt Sheppard, 00:19.291[21]; 3. 4-Cody Clark, 00:19.320[3]; 4. 84Y-Alex Yankowski, 00:19.346[24]; 5. 97-Bobby Hackel IV, 00:19.370[11]; 6. 85-Jack Lehner, 00:19.418[14]; 7. 111-Demetrios Drellos, 00:19.584[7]; 8. 1-Rocky Warner, 00:19.619[23]; 9. 1Z-Jessica Friesen, 00:19.621[8]; 10. 2RJ-Ronnie Johnson, 00:19.681[13]; 11. 34-Dave Constantino, 00:19.694[4]; 12. 35-Chris Curtis, 00:19.715[6]; 13. 20C-Craig Hanson, 00:19.761[12]; 14. 7MM-Michael Maresca, 00:19.805[15]; 15. 42-Tucker O'Connor, 00:19.817[17]; 16. 21P-Luciano (Pep) Corradi, 00:19.887[5]; 17. 24P-Brian Pessolano, 00:19.911[19]; 18. 15M-Daniel Morgiewicz Jr, 00:19.944[16]; 19. 76-Jamike Sowle, 00:20.026[22]; 20. 21C-Brian Calabrese, 00:20.152[2]; 21. 1G-Darwin Greene, 00:20.459[10]; 22. 93-Ryan Odasz, 00:20.489[18]; 23. 66-Don Bellen, 00:20.729[1]; 24. 27-Jason Reome, 00:20.923[20]
34 entries
SWAGGER FACTORY APPAREL CRATE 602 SPORTSMAN
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 31J-John DuMond[1]; 2. 14J-Jeremy Tyrrell[2]; 3. 12B-Tyler Bobar[4]; 4. 21-Gary Edwards III[3]; 5. 2K-Mike Kalkbrenner[5]; 6. 40D-Butchie Irwin[6]; 7. 10%-Chad Edwards[11]; 8. 63-Chip Constantino[8]; 9. 9K-Blaine Klinger[9]; 10. 1B-Brett Mortensen[7]; 11. 312-Bill Port[10]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 84-Ricky Quick[1]; 2. 314-Clayton DuMond[3]; 3. 7J-Dan Santabarbara[5]; 4. 89-Dylan Madsen[7]; 5. 12P-Connor Prokop[2]; 6. 1D-Kyle Dingman[4]; 7. 1M-Mark Mortensen[6]; 8. B24-Brendan Gibbons[9]; 9. 42H-Kadon Hohensheldt[10]; 10. 164-Brock Miller[8]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 8-Josh Kane[1]; 2. 12T-Tyler Peet[2]; 3. 25-Stephen Gray[3]; 4. 78-Tanner Warner[6]; 5. 14-Payton Talbot[5]; 6. 74-Matt Perry[7]; 7. 38SPEC-Jared LaBagh[10]; 8. 55-Jonny Feagles[8]; 9. 99-Clyde Peek[4]; 10. 1H-Harry Shaffer[9]
Hot Laps: 1. 8-Josh Kane, 00:20.019[14]; 2. 314-Clayton DuMond, 00:20.043[4]; 3. 14-Payton Talbot[29]; 4. 63-Chip Constantino, 00:20.134[2]; 5. 1B-Brett Mortensen, 00:20.159[19]; 6. 1M-Mark Mortensen, 00:20.165[20]; 7. 10%-Chad Edwards, 00:20.225[6]; 8. 21-Gary Edwards III[7]; 9. 38SPEC-Jared LaBagh[16]; 10. B24-Brendan Gibbons, 00:20.291[9]; 11. 89-Dylan Madsen[17]; 12. 84-Ricky Quick, 00:20.517[26]; 13. 7J-Dan Santabarbara, 00:20.526[27]; 14. 1D-Kyle Dingman, 00:20.645[3]; 15. 12P-Connor Prokop, 00:20.658[25]; 16. 164-Brock Miller[18]; 17. 12T-Tyler Peet[22]; 18. 74-Matt Perry, 00:21.102[23]; 19. 1H-Harry Shaffer[28]; 20. 25-Stephen Gray, 00:21.054[10]; 21. 31J-John DuMond, 00:21.409[5]; 22. 9K-Blaine Klinger, 00:21.498[15]; 23. 14J-Jeremy Tyrrell, 00:21.511[30]; 24. 99-Clyde Peek, 00:21.653[21]; 25. 12B-Tyler Bobar, 00:21.781[1]; 26. 312-Bill Port, 00:21.786[24]; 27. 40D-Butchie Irwin, 00:23.084[12]; 28. 78-Tanner Warner, 00:28.541[31]; 29. 42H-Kadon Hohensheldt[11]; 30. 2K-Mike Kalkbrenner[13]; 31. (DNS) 55-Jonny Feagles
9 entries
LEATHERSTOCKING CREDIT UNION PRO STOCKS
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 6-Shane Playford[1]; 2. 49-Ivan Joslin[2]; 3. 8N-Nick Stone[7]; 4. 2H-Luke Horning[3]; 5. 35-Ken Gates[9]; 6. 110-Devon Camenga[4]; 7. 81A-Michael Achzet[5]; 8. 7C-Caden Dumblewski[8]; 9. 75-Gary Silkey[6]
Hot Laps: 1. 110-Devon Camenga, 00:22.214[2]; 2. 49-Ivan Joslin, 00:22.341[6]; 3. 6-Shane Playford, 00:22.669[7]; 4. 81A-Michael Achzet, 00:23.243[1]; 5. 75-Gary Silkey, 00:23.425[8]; 6. 7C-Caden Dumblewski, 00:24.110[3]; 7. (DNS) 35-Ken Gates; 8. (DNS) 2H-Luke Horning; 9. (DNS) 8N-Nick Stone
17 entries
MONTGOMERY COUNTY OFFICE FOR AGING LIMITED SPORTSMAN
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 85R-Bob Rowback[1]; 2. 1B-Jeff Bobilin[4]; 3. 797-Corky Warner[8]; 4. 2-Brandon Tyler[2]; 5. 12AJ-AJ Greco[6]; 6. 47-Walter Cook[7]; 7. 44J-Adam Tranka[3]; 8. 618-Bobby Rhinehardt[9]; 9. (DNS) 57-Ben Balzer
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 5C-Randy Cosselman[8]; 2. 26B-Maddy Broedel[1]; 3. 32-Steve Wagoner[3]; 4. 22L-Lance Hill[7]; 5. 16H-Dylan Huston[6]; 6. 87J-Joel Knudsen Jr[5]; 7. 11-Josh Persse[2]; 8. (DQ) 44-Rocco Constantino[4]
Hot Laps: 1. 12AJ-AJ Greco, 00:21.015[7]; 2. 618-Bobby Rhinehardt, 00:21.393[12]; 3. 797-Corky Warner, 00:21.662[17]; 4. 47-Walter Cook, 00:21.732[5]; 5. 22L-Lance Hill, 00:21.780[8]; 6. 1B-Jeff Bobilin, 00:21.907[2]; 7. 16H-Dylan Huston, 00:22.103[9]; 8. 44J-Adam Tranka, 00:22.164[14]; 9. 32-Steve Wagoner, 00:22.389[16]; 10. 2-Brandon Tyler, 00:22.741[15]; 11. 5C-Randy Cosselman, 00:22.807[6]; 12. 85R-Bob Rowback, 00:22.815[13]; 13. 11-Josh Persse, 00:23.451[11]; 14. 26B-Maddy Broedel, 00:23.553[3]; 15. 44-Rocco Constantino, 00:24.034[4]
15 entries
FONDA FAIR FOUR CYLINDERS
Feature (12 Laps): 1. 33D-Kerrie Hollenbeck[3]; 2. 12S-Ken Hollenbeck[5]; 3. 03D-Jon Mason[15]; 4. 97JD-Jay Ingersoll[13]; 5. 223S-Josh Beals[1]; 6. K1S-William Liberatore[2]; 7. 54S-Wayne Russell Jr[14]; 8. 212S-TJ Marlitt[6]; 9. 420XS-Tim Warner[7]; 10. 29D-Howard Marlitt[4]; 11. 98S-Stephanie Maille[12]; 12. 26D-Len St Andrews[8]; 13. 42D-Hayleigh Gates[10]; 14. 3D-John Napoli[11]; 15. 36D-Todd Morey[9]
Hot Laps: 1. 3D-John Napoli, 00:24.983[12]; 2. 97JD-Jay Ingersoll, 00:25.634[5]; 3. 36D-Todd Morey, 00:25.898[11]; 4. 03D-Jon Mason, 00:26.294[10]; 5. 54S-Wayne Russell Jr, 00:26.362[13]; 6. 26D-Len St Andrews, 00:26.584[14]; 7. 42D-Hayleigh Gates, 00:29.045[2]; 8. 212S-TJ Marlitt, 00:29.052[9]; 9. 98S-Stephanie Maille, 00:34.309[7]; 10. 29D-Howard Marlitt, 00:37.163[8]; 11. (DNS) 223S-Josh Beals; 12. (DNS) 12S-Ken Hollenbeck; 13. (DNS) 33D-Kerrie Hollenbeck; 14. (DNS) K1S-William Liberatore; 15. (DNS) 420XS-Tim Warner
Both Kerrie and Ken Hollenback were awarded an extra $100 from the evenings sponsors Upstate Spray Foam
Submitted By: Brett Deyo