If you’ve not noticed, the Sept. 1-5, 2025, Tire Rack SCCA® Solo® National Championships is quickly approaching, and to give us something to do before the event, we’ve been trying to predict the winners of the classes, then presenting you with polls to see if you know any better than us.
We’ve also been dropping rock music links into those articles because this year’s Solo Nationals is rock-and-roll themed.
Did you miss any of those articles and polls? If so, you can check them all out by clicking here.
Hopefully you’ve been welcoming these polls with open arms, because we came back with more. Next up was the Modified category, which includes Kart Mod.
Like with the other classes for this winner-take-all championship autocross event, we sat down to come up with our own list of top picks for the Mod category, and here’s what we came up with:
- AM: Blair Reid
- AML: Melissa Ghadially
- BM: Will Lahee
- CM: Ben Martinez
- DM: Jeremy Ellerby
- DML: Dawn Danton
- EM: Jeff Kiesel
- EML: Kayla Kiesel
- FM: Jason Hobbs
- FML: Kencey Christopher
- KM: Tom Harrington
It’s OK if you don’t agree, we can all agree to disagree and go our separate ways. Then after the Solo Nats happens, we can tally predictions and see who’s crying now.
If you can’t find the name of a driver in the poll results below, don’t get upset – we followed the entry list faithfully, but since we assemble these polls a week or so before the Solo Nats, any last-minute entry shuffling won’t be represented here.
If you’re competing in one of the Modified classes and you weren’t picked in our predictions or the polls below, don’t stop believin’ that you could still make the cut and walk away from Lincoln Airpark an SCCA National Champion.
Poll Results
Fans weighed in on who they thought would win. Choices with votes are listed by share of votes, highest first. Percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number, so totals may not equal 100%.
A Modified
38 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Blair Reid | 34% |
| Timothy Brueske | 16% |
| Joe Cheng | 16% |
| Neal Stanley | 13% |
| Jeremy Boyer | 11% |
| Other | 5% |
| K. Dave Crowder | 3% |
| Michael Moran | 3% |
A Modified Ladies
26 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Heather Thompson | 65% |
| Melissa Ghadially | 31% |
| Other | 4% |
B Modified
66 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Tamra Krystinik | 44% |
| Will Lahee | 12% |
| Chris Kunkel | 9% |
| Jason Thompson | 6% |
| Trent Ksionek | 6% |
| Donald R Elzinga, Jr. | 6% |
| Dan Cyr | 5% |
| Paul Wright | 5% |
| Michelle Quinn | 2% |
| Kyriacos Panayiotou | 2% |
| Ryan Finch | 2% |
| Nathan Gordon | 2% |
| Other | 2% |
C Modified
47 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Ben Martinez | 30% |
| Marshall Grice | 23% |
| Eric Clements | 21% |
| Chuck Pyanowski | 4% |
| Mari Clements | 4% |
| Ken Hurd | 4% |
| John Powell | 4% |
| Jim Garry | 4% |
| Jason Swindle | 2% |
| Other | 2% |
D Modified
38 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Jeff Cashmore | 47% |
| Jeremy Ellerby | 29% |
| Jeff Ellerby | 13% |
| Craig Carr | 5% |
| Mark Yakich | 5% |
D Modified Ladies
24 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Dawn Danton | 88% |
| Other | 13% |
E Modified
53 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Jeff Kiesel | 51% |
| Zak Kiesel | 23% |
| Jason Minehart | 17% |
| Gregory Vincent | 6% |
| Jason Kupka | 2% |
| Other | 2% |
E Modified Ladies
42 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Kaila Kiesel | 60% |
| Shawn Kiesel | 29% |
| Anne Vincent | 7% |
| Teresa Ellerby | 2% |
| Other | 2% |
F Modified
51 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Brad Smith | 37% |
| Jason Hobbs | 24% |
| Jackson MacLeod | 12% |
| Jeff Blumenthal | 8% |
| Andrea Albin | 6% |
| Brandon Thomas | 2% |
| Boris Vujasinovic | 2% |
| Tom Buckman | 2% |
| Steve Pertzsch | 2% |
| Matt Murphy | 2% |
| JJ Kramer | 2% |
| Keith Roberts | 2% |
F Modified Ladies
34 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Kencey Christopher | 62% |
| Lexie Murray | 21% |
| Kristina Clark | 18% |
Kart Modified
58 total votes
| Driver | Share of votes |
|---|---|
| Larry MacLeod | 48% |
| Tom Harrington | 17% |
| Ryan Lower | 10% |
| Ian Berman | 5% |
| Tony Mitera | 5% |
| Daniel Wendel | 5% |
| Nicholas Fiorani | 2% |
| Paul Durr | 2% |
| Dylan Brown | 2% |
| Daniel Bulgarelli | 2% |
| Ramon Pellizzaro | 2% |
Photo by Jeff Loewe