Nearly 1,300 Solo rockstars will perform Sept. 1-5, 2025, during the 52nd Tire Rack SCCA® Solo® National Championships going on at Lincoln Airpark in Nebraska’s capital. Those rock ‘n’ rollers will show their Roadrunner ‘stuff’ across 94 different vehicle classes over four days.
(What’s with the music references? That’s because this year’s event theme is rock ‘n’ roll! Why rock ‘n’ roll? Because the event rocks!)
The largest of this year’s Solo Nationals classes looks to be D Street, coming in just short of 65 entrants. Part of the Street category managed by SCCA’s Solo Events Board, that category is designed to provide a low barrier of entry for existing and potential Club members. Cars running in the Street category must have been produced with normal road touring equipment and licensed for normal road use. Such vehicles are sold and delivered through a manufacturer’s retail sales outlets, and Canadian-market counterparts are also eligible for participation.
Oversimplified for the purposes of this article, Street category car prep allowances are minimal but can include changes to shocks, anti-roll bars and tires. D Street (DS), specifically, is a grouping of sedans and coupes classed by performance potential. At this year’s Solo Nats, DS looks to include seven automotive manufacturers and nine models coming from Japan, South Korea, Italy, Germany, and the United States.
“D Street had some life infused into it a few years ago,” said Alex Muresan, a DS competitor who has finished on the Solo Nats victory podium three years running in a Honda Civic Type R. “When it is sort of a random toss-up, it makes things exciting and encourages people to try different makes.”
Reigning DS National Champion Mark Daddio agrees the class is interesting because variables, such as course design and weather conditions, generate parity across the different models. And while he claimed last year’s victory driving a Subaru BRZ, the 14-time Solo National Champion enjoys DS because nothing is necessarily a lock.
“D Street has many cars that end up running very similar times on certain courses,” said Daddio, who was also the 1988 Solo Rookie of the Year and 2000 Solo Driver of Eminence. “It comes down to a crapshoot when you have that many different cars that make their time so differently.”
Making his fourth Solo Nats appearance this year is DS competitor Ross Jacobs in a turbocharged Ford Focus RS. He is pleasantly pleased to have unintentionally landed on an SCCA Solo class that includes some serious car-control experts.
“It’s pretty cool that not everyone is in the same cars, and that’s a challenge,” Jacobs said. “It’s fun to compete against fast drivers in different cars. I like that we’re one of the biggest fields, and there are some pretty big legends as far as drivers.”
Evan Russo, driving a Hyundai Veloster N in DS, is making his second-ever Solo Nats appearance this year. Having only joined the Club last year, the DS squad has provided him much #funwithcars over a brief period of time.
“I’m pretty new to autocross and it was just kind of by chance that I ended up in D Street,” Russo noted. “There’s a huge swath of really competitive cars, and in the right hands any of them can be a winner.”
Following D Street Devotees
Ford, Fiat, Volkswagen, Toyota, Subaru, Hyundai, and Honda – they’ll all be running Tuesday and Wednesday in Heat 4 during DS competition at Solo Nats. It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll, but you’ll like it keeping with this year’s Solo Nats theme.
Catch all the sick slides and dinged cones thanks to live coverage provided by SCCA. Follow the competition online at sololive.scca.com, which includes live timing/scoring and audio coverage during each Solo Nats Heat. Be sure to monitor the Tire Rack SCCA National Solo and SCCA Official Facebook pages, too, for updates and photos over the next four days of #funwithcars.
Photo by SCCA Staff
