Stub Fadden

Competitor
CLASS OF 2003

Stanley “Stub “ Fadden became involved in racing as a welder for Leland Ingerson in the late 1950’s. It wasn’t until 1960 that Stub took to the track. Stub’s resume is an impressive one. He has taken down multiple track championships at Thunder Road Speedbowl (1978-1979) and also won a title at Catamount Stadium in 1986. In 1980, he took down the track championship at Mount Laurier, Quebec.

He was a star of the old NASCAR North Late Model Tour from 1979-1985 winning 11 races. Stub is a two time winner of Thunder Road’s prestigious Milk Bowl, as well as the first ever Molson Bash. He also has won both the New England 200 and the New England 300 at Catamount Stadium, and is the Triple Crown Winner of the NASCAR North 250 at the Cayuga Speedway in Nelles Corner, Ontario. He also scored wins at Hamilton, Westboro, Monadnock, Lee USA and Oxford Plains Speedway.

He then moved to the NASCAR Busch North Series starting in 1987. He won 4 times in the series, his last which came at on September 24, 1994, about 4 weeks shy of his 61st birthday. According to Bobby Dragon, “Stub and I go way back. He‘s very highly regarded around here. I guess Stub Fadden is as close a friend as anyone I’ve had the honor of running against. He was aggressive & competitive. He’d get the job done without banging his way to the front. You could run side by side, lap after lap with Stub without worrying.”

In 1980, Fadden was the recipient of the Don MacTavish Award, given by the Vermont Sports Writers for lifelong service to stock car racing. He received the NASCAR Sportsman Award in three different decades, being honored in 1968, 1981, and 1990.

For the last several years before his retirement, Stub was a member of the only active grandfather/grandson team of competitors in NASCAR history, racing with his grandson Mike Olsen, who went on to win the NASCAR Busch North Series Championship in 2001.

Stanley Fadden passed away on March 11, 2009 at the age of 75.