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Gerald, known as Jerry, or "Cookie" Cook was born in Lockport, Western New York on 31 July 1939. He began racing in New York, winning his first race at the age of thirteen, at first locally and then moving his racing schedule in the original concrete Utica-Rome Speedway in Vernon, New York. This is where he met his future wife, Sue. She knew that the Race Driver, and when they married the couple moved to Rome, bought a house, build a shop and there they remained for the next twenty-five years, leaving their two children, David and Kristi.

He won the 1969 track championship at Utica-Rome Speedway. Jerry went to one of the best drivers in the changes in the division of all time, winning six times in the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977, he participated in 1474 begins with a 342 win gives him an average of every victory four times as he entered his car. Jerry ended up 64.5% of his starts in the first five positions and an amazing 85% of his starts in the top ten positions. completed one of the best racing driver three changes in the placement of each season 1969 - 1982 and made more than a million pounds in prize money.

1982 was his last race of the season, finished the season when Jerry announced his retirement and took a job with NASCAR in Daytona Beach, Florida is helping to create the modern NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series in 1982. Changes in the series was to allow more teams to fight seriously for the championship, it was decided to reformat Modified division championship race a limited schedule does not conflict with each other. 1987 saw a revised format for the NASCAR Busch North Series (currently East series) with a number of drivers in the series, gaining experience with the hopes of moving to a major NASCAR series, but some drivers are at home in a row and has no plans of moving not just dalje.Serija development for the drivers but also for crew members and officials, as well. Jerry made ​​the first set of rules for the newly formed NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in 1995. The series later became a series of Camping World is the 2005 Craftsman Truck Series championship winning team decided to finish the series. Jerry is currently heading into NASCAR competition administrator based in the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, North Carolina and currently lives in Mooresville, North Carolina.

His family were deeply involved in NASCAR racing with his son, David, working on the inside of Sam Hornish, Jr. has 77 Dodge Penske Racing South, his daughter, Kristi, executive assistant to a former Cup champion team owner Robert Yates. In the meantime, Derek, Kristi's husband, an engineer at KB Racing, and his eldest grandson, Justin is a machinist at Michael Waltrip Racing while attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which won awards were Jerry - inductee u.Nacionalni Motorsport Press Association Hall of Fame in 1989, inductee in the New York Stock Car Association Hall of Fame in 1993 F, has been appointed as one of NASCAR top 50 drivers in 1998, was named # 3 on the NASCAR Modified All-Time Top 10 list, and inductee into the International motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2009.