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As we enter into the summer months, we’ve been experiencing unusually hot (August like) weather. It’s a time to plan vacations with family and friends, but don’t forget the events happening in our region and throughout the Northeast. NNJR Solo has an event scheduled on July 13th at the Meadowlands. NNJR Rally has no events in NJ in July. Road Racing throughout the Northeast Division has a busy Summer schedule to name a few. On June 14-15, NER hosted a race weekend at Lime Rock, well attended with over 190 cars. A fun fact - this is the only race weekend that holds a “Paddock Crawl” on Friday night with everyone bringing food and drinks to share as participants “crawl’ along the paddock. Chris and I are headed to Watkins Glen this weekend for the Glen Region race weekend, the 4th in the NEDIV Road Racing Series.
SCCA NEDiv News from Topeka Area 1 Director Peter Schneider and Chris Mosley, Chair of the NEDiv Council, are asking drivers and workers to go to the main SCCA page to read the proposed changes to the 2025 Run-offs. The proposal includes shortening the length of time (days) for the Run-offs, the reduction in classes invited and the path to earn an invitation to the Run-offs. The SCCA is looking for input and comments to these proposals. Please take this opportunity to share your thoughts before the cut-off date at the end of July. [see below]
Stories, Past and Present, from our Northern NJ Region - a new monthly feature. This month’s story is taken from the NNJR newsletter “The Tonneau” dated May 1963. It is an article written by then Trustee Vic Wallder called Yankee Monte Carlo Rally in his own words. “Jess and I have been making this Connecticut Sports Car Club event a must for the last three years. It is billed as a low pressure rally to brush out the winter cobwebs and tune drivers, navigators and equipment for the coming SCCA national season. This was the 12th running and it continued to live up to expectations. This year included a 200 mile run each of two days starting from Westport, CT. The rally ran to South Egremont, Mass on Saturday and returned to Weston, CT on Sunday. While we were enjoying an excellent prime ribs dinner at the finish we heard of an amusing incident. One checkpoint crew brought sandwiches, etc. for both days. Being tidy, they collected their apple cores, waste paper and the like in a paper bag and threw it in their car to dispose of later. Then on Sunday, on opening their lunch bag they found that they had thrown away the wrong one! Luckily their CP teammates had enough to share…. Oh yes, Jess and I won with a total of 45, 38 which we collected on Saturday.”
Please consider becoming a volunteer at events in our region and others throughout the Northeast Division.
Feel free to reach out to me with any ideas or suggestions at re@scca-nnjr.com. I’d love to hear from you! Linda
Linda
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