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Lorinda Cherry

NNJR Friend, RE, Racer and Computer Scientist

November 18, 1944 - February 16, 2022

Copyright Peter Adams Photography.

1988 William G. Giltzow Award–For exemplifying "dedication and service to the NNJR-SCCA"

Lorinda joined the Northern New Jersey chapter of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) in July 1967. She participated in road rallies, then served as marshal and handled some administrative duties, including being RE. She also showed award-winning Doberman Pinschers.

Cherry died in February 2022, at the age of 77.

 Lorinda Cherry on Wikipedia.

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2021 Vinny Blancuzzi Award

Robert Shore

The Board of Trustee's a pleased to announce that the 2021 recipient of the Vinny Blancuzzi Award is Robert Shore. The award is presented to a region member to recognize the time and effort it takes to make the Region work above and beyond the normal effort.

Bob joined SCCA-NNJR in 2015 and has been instrumental in the growth of the Region's RoadRally program and our selection for the SCCA RoadRally Regional Development awards in 2016 and again in 2020. Bob has been a major contributor to the Region's RoadRally program growth to the most active program in the county in 2020 and in 2021.

Bob started rallying back in 1966 as a member of Raritan Valley Sports Car Club. He was Chief of Controls for NNJR's Pine Barren Express (BPX) RoadRally which featured the sand trials of Brendan T. Byrne State Forest and Wharton State Park. PBX was brisk Time-Speed-Distance rally that started in 1999 and ran for ten years.

Back in 2014, Bob along with NNJR's member Fred Cochran established our existing relationship with the New Jersey Highlands Coalition which is our co-host for both our Spring and Fall "tours/treks' Road Rallies. The Highland events are non-competitive scenic drives of the Highlands of northwestern New Jersey and have featured in the past the Morris Canal and The Sterling Hill Mining Museum which is the "fluorescent mineral capital of the world" and last year visited the rural beguiling bridges of western New Jersey. The last three Highland Tours have been the best attended SCCA rallies in the United States.

Outside of Bob's interest in RoadRalling, Bob volunteers at the Manhattan Graphics Center which is an artist run printmaking workshop in New York City and was on their Board from 2006 till 2016.

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 2021 Teddy Bear Rally - Photos

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2022 RoadRally Schedule

• March 27 - Sunday - Spring Highland Trek
• April 24 - Sunday - Second Hand Roads – TSD
• July 24 - Sunday - Back to School – GTA
• October 8/9 - Sat/Sun - NJ National RoadRally Weekend
• October 8 - Saturday - Roads of Home - TSD Tour Rally
• October 9 - Sunday - New Jersey Monte TSD Course Rally
• October 23 - Sunday - Fall Highland Trek
• December 4 - Sunday - 32nd Teddy Bear Rally - GTA

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2021 Walt Huber Scholarship Award

William Petrow

The Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that William Petrow has been named the 2021 recipient of the Walter Huber 'Scholarship Fund', which was designed to provide financial support for 1st time entry or volunteers to "year-end" National level events.

William Petrow has been a long time NNJR member on and off since 2001, but has in recent years been a regular competitor in many of our local autocross events, as well as a regular on the ProSolo tour and National Tour events including Solo Nationals Finale in Nebraska since 2017. He has been running in BS, AS, SS and SSR in a BMW M2, Porsche Cayman 718 and Cayman GT4. He has also competed in a number of TSD rallies over the years including the old famed Pine Barrens Express.

Recently William has become our region chairman for the Rallycross / Rallysprint program. New Jersey has never had this program before and he has been hard at work to find a venue for us to run. While he competed in SCCA rallycross in the early and mid 2000's, he has never been to a national level event and decided to go to the Rallycross Nationals in Ohio this year to volunteer and gain more experience for our program here in NNJR. While there, he helped all of the weekend's competitors through tech inspection and he was lucky enough to pair up with a friend to run in the Modified AWD class (MA) in a 1996 Subaru Impreza with a 6 cylinder swap.

Amongst his vast SCCA experience, he has also competed in stage rally all over the US since 2009 running in FWD, RWD and AWD cars in almost every class! While starting in a Subaru bugeye WRX in Production GT, he moved on to an Open class classic Impreza for 2010. In 2011 he was a Ford Performance backed driver in the then new Ford Fiesta. In recent years he has moved to RWD using Nissan platforms rallying a 240SX in Group2 and Group 5, but has just completed building a 370Z as his new rally machine. He has been crew chief for many national class winning teams, worked for teams at WRC Mexico and X Games Rally and Rallycross, competed in US Rallycross at NJMP in 2010 which then became Global RallyCross (GRC), been an event organizer for rallysprints, commentator for multiple American Rally Association events and has been a volunteer at rallies all over the country since 2001, when SCCA still had ProRally. He has also competed in drifting with US Drift ProAm series and the Mt. Washington Hillclimb, Climb to the Clouds. 2014 CTTC saw him finish in the top 10 overall while taking the Rally 2WD class record! Since 2008 he has been building rally and other race cars at his shop in Union City called Broken Motorsports. 2018 he created an online store catering specifically to motorsports called Bleeding Tarmac.

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2022 Road Racing Program Updates

There are several changes for the upcoming 2022 season that we’d like to update you on.

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SCCA Membership Cards & Annual Waivers Now Available Digitally

SCCA Members can now keep their membership cards on their phones and sign the annual waiver digitally. Both can be found at my.scca.com, the same location members can go to renew their annual SCCA membership and more online!

Digital membership cards are now accepted at all SCCA events as proof of membership, and contain the same look and information as the plastic cards many of us currently carry everywhere.

SCCA Membership Cards & Annual Waivers Now Available Digitally - Sports Car Club of America

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From Your Eyes: A Pair of National RoadRallies

The following was submitted by Ed Sain and is a first-hand recount of the New Jersey National RoadRally Weekend. The weekend featured two events — The North by Northwest National RoadRally and the New Jersey Monte RoadRally — hosted by South Jersey SCCA and Northern New Jersey SCCA, respectively. In addition to being a National RoadRally, the New Jersey Monte also had a Regional Rally associated with the event. Join us in enjoying his recount of the exciting weekend!

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FRED WARREN JENKINS, JR.

The family of Fred W. Jenkins, Jr. is sad to announce his passing on Saturday, November 6, 2021. He lived a remarkable life of 85 years.

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NNJR - RallyX Program 

We are looking for a site to host our program. Please contact BIll Petrow or Marko Gidej at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Memories of Linda ... Joe and Linda Remembered

By Bryan Deane

Man it is hard to believe that tragic day was 20 years ago.  Linda and I as most know were a couple before she and Joe started dating. Linda was a dynamo simply put a force of nature.

One thing I will always remember is how fiercely she would approach her duties as a flag marshal, flag chief or friend. Case in point, we were at Lime Rock for a Regional that I was the Flag Chief for and she was working a station.  The event was a late July race and I remember on the morning of the race as we were (actually Linda) were driving up from Greenwood Lake talking about station assignments and personnel because I was still playing with who I was assigning where.  I had said that I was putting her in Race Control with me for the day and was looking at who I was going to assign to the rest of the stations.  At which point she said she absolutely wanted to be on a station and there was no arguing the point.  So, I relented and assigned her to a station.

As is typical for late July the day was extremely hot and at lunch I was asking her if she was doing ok and if she wanted to come off station to be in Race Control, which resulted in a very terse “Bite Me!” from her. Well, I made a mental note to keep track of her on the down low by asking her station partners when they were on Comms and at one point one of the guys thought maybe it was time to get her some relief.  Well, Linda heard this and grabbed the head set then proceed to tell me I had better send the “army” if I was pulling her off station. Of course, I had already dispatched track rescue and told her she was coming in and that it was the end of the discussion.  Linda came in grudgingly, of course, and was taken to medical for a checkup.

At the end of the session, I went to check on her and was greeted with another “Bite ME! I was fine” when she saw me. Well, she eventually made her way up to Race Control and proceeded to sit in the back of the room to continue cooling off. At one point as the GT1, GT2 and AS cars were rolling down pit lane to go out for their session I turned around to find Linda stretched out on the floor sleeping! At which point I motioned to Walt Huber to take a look and his comment was “good call” getting her off station but you’re going to catch hell on the way home you realize that right? Yeah, I know.

As we were leaving at the end of the day I asked if she was ok and without argument, or asking, she handed me the car keys and said you drive. Not 5 minutes later as we’re driving through Sharon I look over and she’s sound asleep….again. Ninety minutes later, back in Greenwood Lake and I finally had to wake her to let her know we were home. So, much for catching hell….

I miss both tremendously, as a side note Joe was trying to help track down my dad’s old 52 Morgan Flat Rad that I wanted to see if could be acquired.

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Do you remember where you were 9/11/01?

By Frank (Chip) McKinley

On Sept. 9, 2001, my friends, Joe Deluca, Linda Gronlund and I, attended a MOG (Morgan Owners Gathering) in Sturbridge, MA at the former ‘Alice’s Restaurant & Inn’. Two days later they boarded Flight 93 bound for CA. as Linda had a business conference and she & Joe planned to visit the Napa Valley wine country for a short vacation. They never made it their plane crashing in Shanksville, PA.

Joe & I had been friends for over 20 years, both members of the ¾ Morgan Group and SCCA NNJR. He was also a client and we shared various other interests. I was attending an insurance training conference at the Hanover Marriott Sept. 11 until news of the planes crashing into the Towers was announced. Some say the world changed forever that day.

Granted, we’ve had other tragedies since, yet this was the big one. Fact is we’re amid others right now: political turmoil, recovery from hurricane Ida and the Wuhan-Corona-Delta-Mu virus. But in retrospect, Joe was lucky as he had laid out a thoughtful plan ‘in anticipation of his death’ well in advance though only in his 40’s.

Nobody wants to create this plan though in the absence of knowing when it will happen, we must for the benefit of our family. Joe’s policies, beneficiary statements and even intentions for his Morgan were all spelled out in writing. Can you say the same? How about other family members or friends?

If not, please contact me for assistance.

PS- This a personal Sept. 11, 2001 message and has nothing to do with my employer.

Frank (Chip) McKinley

119 Cedar St.

East Hanover, NJ 07936

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New Jersey Monte - National Course RoadRally 

October 10 – New Jersey Monte - National Course RoadRally – This is a 160+ mile Time-Speed-Distance Map Rally and the second event of the New Jersey National Weekend held in conjunction with South Jersey Region. The event will start in Clinton, NJ and end in Long Valley, NJ at 4pm. The route will be based on the ‘historic’ New Jersey ‘Esso/Exxon’ map (yes - paper maps were a thing). All Timing Controls will be listed on the map with an associated Car Zero ‘Key Time’ and Official Mileage. All you have to do is stay on-course by following the route highlighted on the map and get to each of the Timed Controls ‘on time’. The event will be held in honor of NNJR member Dave Panas who was one of the original organizers of the NJ Monte back in the early '60s.

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North by Northwest - National Tour RoadRally

A National Series RoadRally or Regional RoadRally (at a reduced Rate)

October 9 – North by Northwest - National Tour RoadRally – This is an all-day 180+ mile straight forward Time-Speed-Distance Rally. Hosted by South Jersey Region as the first event of a New Jersey National Weekend in conjunction with the NJ Monte hosted by NNJR on October 10th. The route will start near Atlantic City and travel North by Northwest to end in Clinton, NJ. The route will have over 100 timed locations and will include some sand trails in the NJ Pine Barrens.

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