One of the most historic and popular dirt tracks in the northeast is suddently losing a handful of cars due to unhappy drivers. Not only have drivers been leaving but many fans have left as well over the passed few weeks. Now, this week Mike Fusco, who was a modified feature winner in 2007 is selling out and is done racing, sportsman hot-shoe Dave Constantino will be leaving Fonda in favor of Albany-Saratoga, and the biggest news came that the Jake Spraker #1J driven by Bobby Varin will not be returning to Fonda Speedway. Apparently, handicapping, points, and the track not doing anything about rough driving are all reasons for the fans leaving as well as drivers. The crowd was terrible Saturday night, which can be credited to the poor weather, but it with Varin leaving the track it'll hurt the crowd significantly.
Apparently, Fonda's mini-series, the NMX Thunder Series is now having their points count towards the championship. Originally, it was announced that those races would only be worth 20 show-up points. So, since the first NMX Series race was ran a few weeks ago, and they only gave the drivers 20 show-up points, Bobby Varin was the Fonda points leader. However, this weekend they added the actual points recieved towards the series to the Series championship towards the track title. So after last Saturday's race, Varin was leading points, and before the green flag even dropped for the next race, and without there being any penalities or deductions, Varin lost the points lead to Pat Ward. More on this story is available on http://www.bobbyvarin.com/.
As for the legendary fan favorite Kenny Brightbill, he's currently getting the big block ready for the Super Dirt Series race at Grandview Speedway on July 16th which will mark his first race in 2008. Depending on how Grandview goes, he'll more than likely be at Georgetown the next night. Right now the only other race on his schedule is Super Dirt Week in Syracuse New York in early October. However, that could and probably will change.
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