When autocrossers say that the Tire Rack SCCA® Packwood Solo® National Tour is a classic, the proof is in the pudding. Over the July 11-13, 2025, weekend, Northwest Region hosted the event at the picturesque Hampton Mills site and an astounding 268 drivers took runs. That makes Packwood the largest stand-alone Solo National Tour weekend of the year!
Event chair Joe Goeke and his team invited all participants to enjoy an evening out at Longmire Springs Brewery, including food and beverages and a night that included car-themed music bingo. A playlist full of classic road trip jams, car anthems, and more were blasting as the local community got to know our own autocrossers.
James Paulson’s courses proved popular; a mix of technical and full-throttle moments evened the field across classes. Yes, it was warm, with temps approaching record highs, but dry and sunny beats cold and wet any weekend.
While the threat still remains of the Club hosting “the last-annual event at Packwood" at some point (a phrase many long-time attendees are familiar with), the site looks vastly improved from a year ago. The new site ownership has begun to clean up the site, which only adds to the beauty of competing with the backdrop of Mt. Ranier (seriously, visit the SCCA Solo Facebook page and look at some of these photos).
Luckily – there’s still time to make a visit to Packwood this year. Somehow, the Tire Rack SCCA ProSolo® Series event this weekend still has spots remaining. You’ll want to attend that one – but let’s look back on the Solo National Tour first.
Class Competition
If you think day two at a Solo National Tour doesn’t matter, the A Street podium would like a word. Saturday ended with Ron Bauer ahead of Porsche Cayman owner and co-driver Kit Gauthier and Clayton Larson in a Corvette. Larson flipped the script on Sunday, finishing in the lead 0.113sec over Gauthier, with Bauer another scant 0.040sec back.
Looking for a Fox body Mustang to autocross? Packwood wants to know what it will take to get you into one of these cars. You could grab CAM-T winner Fredrick Pascual’s Mustang for a proven winner. Or you could take home Marshal Hill’s C Prepared machine, who finished second to class godfather Michael Maier in Packwood. Both drove their machines with a for sale sign hanging off the back.
Sage Zamora came to the event as the SCCA Women on Track Driver Development recipient and jumped right into the open Xtreme Street B class. With coaching from Andrew Redding, Zamora got quicker through the weekend and posted even faster times on Sunday on what should have been a slower course. Tom Ellam won the class, with Zamora’s co-driver, Josh Garzon, second.
Speaking of SCCA Women on Track, Shelby Redding earned the Pay It Forward award for the weekend as the highest performing female driver. Redding won the Ladies Street Tire Bump class over Dee Dietz and earned the opportunity to invite a local driver to a National Solo event in the future, courtesy of SCCA Women on Track.
Check out all of the action in the results.
Don’t Miss These…
It’s crunch time for the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Tour, with two events left before the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championships in Lincoln.
First up is the Tire Rack SCCA Chicago Solo National Tour, July 25-27, followed by the Tire Rack Finger Lakes National Tour, Aug. 1-3.
But that doesn’t account for Packwood, and West Coasters shouldn’t miss out on this week’s ProSolo. If you’ve never participated in a ProSolo, try it out July 18-20 on a legendary site.
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Photos by Taylour Wargo
