Spring is in the air, and thanks to some of our competitors, so is the smell of tire smoke and race gas!
The 2026 Solo season started out with one of the strongest weekends we’ve had in recent memory – 126 cars showed up Saturday to compete in the Spring Fun Event and another 176 took their respective green flags on Sunday for Points Event 1.
Saturday saw an enormous Novice class with 25 drivers recording times, many of them first-timers. We managed to get 6 runs in for everyone and had no major issues; mechanical nor software.
Sunday was a sell-out and saw fierce competition through all classes for all four heats across five runs on a very fast track.
A massive 21-car Street Open field saw CJ Miller (55 FS) take top honors over Alex Kruetzkamp (22 HS) in second and Todd Kunze (187 GS) in third.
CAM-S made for an incredibly tight battle that saw the top six cars covered by less than a second, but ultimately it was Jamie Elliott (77) setting the fastest raw time of the day on his way to claiming victory over Mark Minge (91) and Travis Clark (11).
Nate Chester (92 GST) picked up right where he left off in 2025 by claiming the top spot in a very competitive Street Touring Open class, beating out second-place Dave Riley (16 BST) by just over six tenths of a second. Third place Daniel Brindley (84 SST) missed out on second by the narrowest of margins – just 0.097 seconds behind Dave Riley.
The fastest PAX time of the day came by way of Mark Stevens (99 GST) who also took home the top spot in Pro, just ahead of Myke Dziengel (6 BST) and Chris Rudy (18 FS).
Novice Street was won by William Warfel (69 ES), followed by Michael Armstrong (11 AS) and Devin Furr (57 HS), while top honors in Novice Modified went to Austin Koeper (32 XA), followed by Lucas Munday (11 GST) and Andrew Hartwell (97 BST).
A tremendous thank you to everyone who came out and an extra thank you to the amazing course workers, timing and scoring team, and grid workers who make a large event go so smoothly.
Anyone itching to get back out on track with us won’t need to wait long as our next events are scheduled for April 25th and 26th – where we will be trying something completely different!
Points Event 2 is going to have a different look and a slightly different start procedure. We’re helping test some ProSolo equipment for SCCA, but everything will still run as and be scored as a standard Solo event. What this means is that we will have two “start” lanes that will merge into the same course and cars will launch from a drag-style Christmas tree. Cars will still start their time once they cross the first timing beam and NOT at the green light. There may be some extra scanning in the staging lanes, but for the most part drivers should expect things to run very close to business as usual. Only one start lane will be used and only one car will be released at a time, staggered as normal. Classes and championship points will be scored and recorded as usual for Solo events. Expect more announcements as we firm up the event format details.
Stay safe out there and see you down the road!
