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Peter Schneider and Cheryl Babbe

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 Region Party

Time to Get Together and Party!

 It has been at least three years since our last Region Get Together.

 We have the Packanack Lake Country Club reserved for

 February 26th and we are looking forward to seeing everyone.

Time: 1pm - 5pm

Lenore Panas 2022 Vinny Blancuzzi Recipient	Nancy Huber 2022 Vinny Blancuzzi Recipient

 

In addition, we will be honoring all active members with 50 years of service or more with special plaques. *

 

 

* If you feel that your name has been omitted in error, please drop a note to the

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 Vinny Blancuzzi

 

Region Party (aka Worker Party)

We will be presenting the awards to our exceptional specialty volunteers for the fine effort they put in during 2022 in addition to our Solo trophies for the winners of their respective classes.

Food will be ready by 3PM and our presentation occurring a bit later. Free food, drinks, and conversation to be had by all comers!

Come out and join your fellow NNJR members and guests to throw off the chill of winter. Great food and drink provided. Intriguing conversation. Thrilling race, rally and solo adventures.

Free!!! --- Fun Events for Adults and Children

Region Party for Volunteers and Solo Awards.

Thanks for a great 2022.

Date: Sunday February 26, 2023

Time: 1-5pm

Location: Packanack Lake Clubhouse
52 Lake Drive West
Packanack Lake
Wayne, NJ 07470

Hot and Cold Buffet
Desserts
Soda, Water, Beer and Wine
(If anyone needs a GF meal, please contact Linda Santangelo-Mosley)

Free!!! --- Fun Events for Adults and Children

• 2022 Solo Awards
• 2022 Volunteer Appreciation
• and more.....

Good friends, good food, good time!

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Merry Christmas!  Happy 2023!

 May your 2023 season be safe and successful!

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USMC Toys for Tots

2022 Teddy Bear RoadRally

December 4, 2022, marked the thirty-third annual Toys for Tots Teddy Bear Road Rally, hosted by the Northern New Jersey Region of the SCCA and Motorsport Club of North Jersey. This year’s sponsor and the sponsor for the past ten years was Subaru World of Hackettstown on Route 46 in Budd Lake, New Jersey.

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Fay Teal   

Obituary is available on the funeral home's tribute page.

Visitation will be Thursday, December 22nd from 5-6:45pm at the Minshall Shropshire-Bleyler Funeral Home, with service at 7pm at the funeral home, which is located at Middletown (Rte. #352) & Knowlton Rds., Middletown Twp., Media, PA 19063.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Laps to Conquer MS, PO Box 94, Lenni, PA 19052-0094 or online via the National MS Society's donor drive in honor of Fay and LCMS available by clicking here .

It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you that Fay Teal passed away yesterday (December 15, 2022) at 5:01pm, surrounded by family.

Born in February 1944, Fay joined the South Jersey Region SCCA in 1978. Her passion for cars and motorsports was strong, and she quickly became active in road racing, autocross, and rallies both as a volunteer and a competitor.

Just as she realized her dream of earning a competition license, Fay was diagnosed in 1981 with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Fay was never one to let her 40+ year battle with a progressive and ultimately fully disabling disease overcome her adventurous spirit and love of motorsports.

Fay founded Laps to Conquer MS (LCMS) in 1989 to raise awareness of MS and do fundraising for research into treatments to help those suffering with MS.

LCMS competed in dozens of Cannonball One Lap of America road rallies, logging over 195,000 interstate miles and raising over $221,000 for MS research. LCMS also competed in - and won - the Nevada Open Road Challenge, and was the event charity for numerous SCCA races over the years. Fay was recognized multiple times for her work and accomplishments with LCMS.

Her strength, courage, and indomitable spirit was matched only by her husband David's devotion and care and her family's love and support. Below is a picture of Fay, David, and son Wayne Hickman during the 2008 Cannonball One Lap of America.

Further information on Fay's amazing life, as well as details on final arrangements and service, will be shared in the coming days.

Rest in peace, Fay, and may your love of motorsports and its people inspire all of us for years to come.

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2023 Helmet Rule

The new 2023 Helmet rule by the New Jersey State Helmets 2015 or new must be used for SOLO

NJ Helmet

New Jersey MOTOR VEHICLE RACETRACK REGULATIONS Chapter 62

This note contains important information for events requiring helmets in New Jersey as dictated by the New Jersey State Police.

The New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety governs motorsport events in the state through its Chapter 62 Motor Vehicle Racetrack Regulations. These supersede, by law, requirements specified in our SCCA General Competition Rules.

SA 2010 / SAH 2010 / M 2010 helmets will NOT be allowed for use at events in New Jersey during the 2021 season.

For events in NJ such as our racing and track day events at NJMP we are NOT allowed to accept Snell 2010 helmets. Only closed face SA 2015 and 2020 helmets with a face shield can be used. For autocross events, open or closed face SA or M 2015 or newer.

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Environmental Award!

NNJR Receives Community Environmental Award

It’s not often that an environmental group gives a motorsports group an award – but the two are not necessarily at ends with each other. SCCA’s Northern New Jersey Region (NNJR) found that out on Oct. 12, 2022, when the New Jersey Highlands Coalition (NJHC) presented NNJR with one of its annual awards.

Read the article here on SCCA.com.

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United States RoadRally Challenge

2022

For the second time this decade, the Detroit Region hosted the annual United States RoadRally Challenge (USRRC), returning the now 27-year-old event to the rural roads of a picturesque five-county Great Lakes area southwest of the Motor City.

Read more ... Detroit Region’s Successful ’22 USRRC

The Winners

Equipped – Jim Wakemen/Peter Schneider (NNJR)
Limited – Bob Morseburg/Bruce Gezon
GPS – Satish Gopalkrishnan (NNJR)/Savera D’Souza (NNJR)
Stock – Sawyer Stone/Alison Lee

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2022 Solo Season Review

We thank you all for coming out to our shortened 6-event 2022 Solo Season. We plan to have an awards party sometime in February, we will send out a notice once a date is set.

We saw some great competitions in many classes.

In SuperStreet Michael Aquino in his Boxster R took the win over long-time autoxer Chris Travis, after a long hiatus away from autoxing, Chris returned in a Tesla Model 3 Performance. AStreet had a 3-point difference with the win going to Dave Heinig in his C5 Z06 over Alp Caglar in his BMW. In BStreet, our worker chief Chris Laprus wins over Cy Lee. DStreet there was a 1 point spread between 1st place winner Steve To in his new Miata ND. Steve is getting acquainted with RWD as he has mostly been running FWD for most of his autox life with a 2-year stint in a Focus RS. In 2nd place in DStreet was Evan Therneau. Ed Lange won the EStreet battle over Rich Waye. Team Mayhem in the STS Miata is always fun to watch, the fight between Michael Roleira and Mike Kobialka, with this time the winner going to Michael Roleira who hasn't won since 2017. In STU Jose Arroyo takes the win over Abdul Chebly. In the CAM Muscle class, Ryan King takes the win over Jeff Darbig with Jonathan Weiss coming in 3rd, all in very well-prepared Mustangs. In the Novice class, George Faller wins it all.

The Pro class always has the best competition, with many national-level drivers some have even won a Solo Nation Championship. This season saw the battle of STR cars, Ken Houseal in a 2023 BRZ, Evan Schickel, and Mark Labbancz both in an ND Miata owned by Mark. It all came down to the last event with Even taking the win over Mark. This will be Evan's 3rd NNJR Driver of the year, previously he won in 2015, and 2017.

Please check HERE for all the class standings. 

Photos from the events can be found HERE 

Official Northern New Jersey SCCA Autocross Facebook Group

Have a safe and fun Holiday Season,

NNJR Solo Team

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2022 NE Majors Conference

Series Report

Greg Amy - Chairman

Northeast Conference Majors Committee

REPORT

Preliminary Schedule

A nice report on the 2022 Majors Series. Let's see what 2023 brings!

Pocono is back!!!!!!

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2023 Majors, Supertours

and the

Divisional Series

Announcing the Northeast Division 2023 Racing Schedule!

Last week the race chairs and divisional leaders met to discuss and lay down the Supertour, Majors and NE Divisional race weekends for 2023. The result is an exciting schedule for the 2023 season. Below are the important dates to mark on your calendar:

The Supertour and Majors dates for 2023:
04/01/2023 - US Major at Summit Point
04/08/2023 - Supertour at VIR
04/28/2023 - US Major at Pitt Race
05/20/2023 - US Major at Pocono <-- NNJR
06/02/2023 - Supertour at Watkins Glen
07/15/2023 - US Major at NJMP
08/18/2023 - US Major at NHMP

The Northeast Divisional Series celebrates it’s 10th year in 2023.

Here are the dates for the Divisional Series Races:
05/05/2023 - NHMP
05/26/2023 - NJMP
06/17/2023 - Lime Rock Park
07/01/2023 - Watkins Glen
07/21/2023 - Summit Point
08/25/2023 - Pitt Race
09/16/2023 - Watkins Glen (Fun One)
10/08/2023 - Thompson

If you have any questions about the 2023 calendar, please contact your regional reps.

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2022 Walter Huber Scholarship

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Linda Louie

Long time NNJR member Linda Louie of Montvale, NJ passed away. 

Linda Louie passed away peacefully on July 20, 2022 at Family of Caring Healthcare (Atrium Post Acute Care) where she had been a resident for the past nine months. She is survived by her loving parents Nancy and Newton Frankel, her devoted companion of 22 years Bart Carlevaro, her brother Norman Vick, nephew Eric Vick, cousin Debra Burk. Linda grew up in Bergen County, having lived in Woodcliff Lake, Park Ridge and Oradell, but Montvale was her home. She attended Pascack Hills High School and Fairleigh Dickinson University and was a member of Delta Gamma Phi sorority.

Linda enjoyed a successful career in the field of Information Technology, but in later years she found her true passion in the auto racing industry. She was appointed Regional Director of Timing and Scoring by the Sports Car Club of America, a position that required her to travel extensively to races around the country. Linda introduced the joys of racing to her partner Bart, who continues to work at events nationally as a tech official with TransAm. Linda was always ready to offer her help to anyone who could use it, and she was generous with her many talents. Her deft fingers produced beautiful cross-stitch pictures and intricate beaded jewelry, one of which - a necklace - is shown in this picture. Her vibrant personality will be missed by all who knew her.

Funeral arrangements are private and are being handled by Robert Spearing Funeral Home, Inc., Park Ridge, NJ rsfhi.com

A note from Ken Greco (July 21, 2022)
"I want to inform my the automobile friends of the passing of an amazing woman last night. Linda Louie was a dear friend of mini for over 50 years. In the SCCA racing community she was an incredible hard worker. I met her in college in 1970. As a student there she help start the Fairleigh Dickinson University Sports Car Club. I rallyed with her many many trips to Lime Rock Park Ct and Pocono Race track. In the mid 70s she started to to run the Timing and Scoring for both pro and national races. For 50 years she worked tirelessly to un the timing and scoring program. If you are not understanding of racing. Timing and Scoring is the only way racers know if the won a arace and where the finished. She will be missed RIP Linda"

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New Jersey

National RoadRally 

Weekend

October 8 & 9, 2022

The New Jersey National RoadRally Weekend consists

of two all-day Time-Speed-Distance events.

The first event is ‘Roads of Home’ on Saturday Oct. 8^th,this is a straight forward car rally, using written route instructions with mileage and car zero perfect time to every turn.

The second is the ‘New Jersey Monte’ on Sunday Oct 9^th, this is an ‘old school’ map car rally. All you have to do is to correctly follow the rally route listed on the master map and arrive on-time at each checkpoint control to get a good score. All timing controls will be listed on the map and have official mileage and car zero perfect time. What could be easier?

Both events start at the Hampton Inn in Clinton, NJ. All teams will be required to utilize the free Richta GPS Competitor Smartphone App which will provide immediate feedback as you pass each Control location.

The New Jersey Monte will be held in honor of NNJR's member Dave Panas who was one of the original organizers of the NJ Monte back in the early '60s.

Start Location:      Hampton Inn Clinton

16 Frontage Drive Clinton, New Jersey 08809

Entry Fee (per event):  $35.00 for teams looking to compete for fun and trophies to test their skills against National level competitorsand$85.00 for those who are looking for SCCA National Championship Points.

Follow the QR Code to the event registration site or online via www.motorsportreg.com.

For additional detail: Contact Peter Schneider at 908-938-8750 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Visit 

The Motorsport Club of North Jersey

for more RoadRally news and fun!

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2022 Walt Huber Scholarship

Nominations are being accepted for the Walter Huber Scholarship. The Scholarship is designed to provide financial support for 1st time entrances to either the Solo Nationals, National Runoffs, United States Road Rally Challenge or like events in the other Specialties.

The award was established June 28, 2018. For more details and to see a list of past recipients follow this link.

Miss you Boss! Thanks for all you do and did for our Region!

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Back To School Rally

July 24, 2022 

A Mileage based navigational road rally.

Registration opens at 10:00 AM, first car off at 11:01 AM 

$25 per car

This event will be an introduction to mileage-based course rallying.
100 penalty points will be ‘awarded’ for each mile that you go off-course.

For Intermediate and Expert Classes, the Rally is like all Motorsport of North Jersey Events with mileage traps based on the Generals and your skills.

For First Timers and Novices, there will be extra Helpers and hints. The Rallymaster is designing the route for individuals new to this type of event and will provide helpers to keep you on-course and ‘instruct’ you on possible upcoming self-correcting route following tricks that you might see later in the event or on the December 5th ‘Teddy Bear’ Toys for Tots rally. 

This event is open to the general public and requires only a car or light SUV/truck, pen/pencil and clipboard or other writing surface.

Start Location: McDonalds - 72 Reaville Ave. Flemington, NJ
End Location: Tavern 519 - 650 County Route 519, Frenchtown, NJ

Awards: Classes are based on your rally expertise & experience
1st & 2nd Expert, 1st & 2nd Intermediate, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Novice
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1st & 2nd Place 'First Timer', Best Family,
Best Husband & Wife/Partner, Best SCCA
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In the Beginning: 

Historic Racing Group was founded in 1997 as the Volvo Historic Series (VHS). Fred Hammond, Director of Corporate Communications for Volvo reached out to Tom Lynch in April of 1996. Tom, a club racer and board member of the SCCA's Northern New Jersey Region happened to have a day job putting on special events for car companies. Tom contacted former Formula Vee racer and NNJR SCCA Steward Dave Panas. Legend has it they discussed it “over an Ice Cream or two” and made plans to get it on the road.

 

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2022 Tire Rack SCCA New Jersey ProSolo

New Meadowlands Sports Complex 

The calendar indicates it’s springtime, but it sure felt like summer on May 20-22, 2022, at New Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, NJ, during the Tire Rack SCCA New Jersey ProSolo.

Mostly sunny skies, with temperatures in the low 90s both Saturday and Sunday, greeted 190 autocrossers who took part in the sixth of 11 “regular season” ProSolo event, this one hosted by SCCA’s Northern New Jersey Region. The venue featured grippy asphalt and ample paddock space, with plenty of room to create similar, open and flowing ProSolo courses.

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