It’s barely been eight weeks since the Sept. 1-5, 2025, Tire Rack SCCA® Solo® National Championships, but the story of changes to its record book was not complete until recently with the running of the RallyCross® National Championship on Oct. 17-19. There’s a category in the “Solo Stats” Record Book of drivers who have won championships in two of SCCA’s disciplines, Solo and something else. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here.

Not to bury the lead too deeply, the top item in the “Solo Stats” book has to be the rosters of drivers who have won the most Solo championships, which saw changes at the top for both male and female competitors.

For women, Karen Babb won her 21st championship, the all-time record for either gender. Making it all the more remarkable is that it has been a full 20 years since she won her 20th in 2005. That E Street Ladies championship tied her with Tina Reeves and Kathleen Barnes for third place on the list of women with the most years between consecutive wins (no. 1 are Martha Lou Haddon and Jill Snell, each with 22 years between consecutive victories). On another list, Babb ties Barnes for the most years between their first and last wins, 42 years. Babb’s first was an ASPL victory in 1981.

Over on the men’s side, Jeff Kiesel won again but John Thomas did not. Kiesel, dominating E Modified in his toothy green Mazda-powered Sprite, scored his 18th championship. Thomas, of late driving the Dwayne Komush Toyota Starlet in D Prepared in quest of a 19th win, placed second this year, leaving the two tied at the top of the list.

A win in EML by Kaila Kiesel extended the Kiesel family’s record to 38 championships. The Babbs, Karen and Ron, are second with 25. Nicole Wong was a winner this year in Super Street Ladies while Jeff Wong won Super Street Prepared, lifting them to third on the family list with 23. Nicole’s 14th championship was her first in SSL; she has now won in nine different classes, second only to Patty Tunnell’s 11.

Now about those crossover champions. SCCA now runs five annual events to decide champions in Solo, Road Racing, Time Trials, RoadRally and RallyCross. For purposes of this discussion, we follow only those who’ve won Solo and one other.

This year, the SCCA National Championship Runoffs® Presented by Sunoco added a 17th name to the list of those who have won both between the cones and on the track – Peter Cunningham, the H Stock champion at 1984’s Solo Nationals, won the 2025 Runoffs’ Street Touring® Under race at Road America. In so doing, he also claimed the longest gap between the two, 41 years.

The RallyCross Nationals added a fourth name to that crossover list, Evan Williams, G Street Champion a year ago in Lincoln, NE, this year won UTV Sport on the dirt in Hollytree, AL.

What looked like another crossover winner turned out not to be, when Tom Harrington won Stock FWD at the RallyCross Nationals. At the Solo Nationals back in 2005, the winner of Formula 125 was Tom Harrington – but a different Tom Harrington. The autocrosser hails from Austin, TX, while the RallyCrosser’s home is Huntsville, AL. And just to confound things even more, both Tom Harringtons competed this year at their separate National Championship events and, totally independently and through utter bizarre coincidence, both were named as the winners of the Hagerty Keepin’ It Cool Award given at each event.

In the category of Wins by manufacturer, Mazda claimed 19 victories this year (16 by various Miata/MX-5 entries), totaling 354 and closing in on Chevrolet, with seven 2025 victories and a total of 378 over the decades.

Mark Daddio continues his category-leading streak of taking a trophy every year he has competed and also the most consecutive trophy finishes – 33 in each category. For total trophies Daddio is now tied with Bill Goodale in 2nd place, four behind Frank Stagnaro, neither of whom competed this year. Annie Gill chose to compete in the open A Street Touring class this year, ending her trophy streak run at 20. No active driver is currently threatening her tally.

The total number of competitors at the 2025 Solo National Championships was 1,262, the sixth largest in the history of the event. Among them, the five remaining 100 Percenters ran their 52nd Nationals – Dick Berger, Charlie Clark, Rocky Entriken, Rick Ruth, and George Schweikle. Don Knop is three years away from joining those Golden Circle members. Five drivers, the smallest group since 2015, were inducted into the Silver Circle, those who have competed in 25 events – Jeff Blumenthal, Eric Clements, Cal Craner, Michael A. Snyder, and Michael J. Snyder.

Southeast Division sent 189 drivers this year, the only division to set a new record for its Nationals entry. New entry records were also set in three categories: 120 in the three Spec classes, 119 in the three Classic American Muscle classes, and 111 in the three Xtreme classes. Xtreme A had 50 drivers and Xtreme B had 44, ranked second and third among the largest Xtreme classes as the new category continues to grow.

By one measure, perhaps the most dominant victory of the weekend belongs to Dave Schotz, the CAM Contemporary winner, who outran his 34-car class by 3.880sec. That was more than a full second greater than the former top mark for a class of 31-40 cars. Ironically, in the next-higher group of 41-50 cars, Schotz’s 2023 win was knocked out of the Top 10 when both Charles Krampert (now third place) and Tom O’Gorman (now fifth) inserted themselves.

Finally, the city of Lincoln, NE, is established as The Host The Most with the 16th Solo Nationals taking place in its city, breaking out of a tie with Salina, KS, where 15 Nationals had been held.

The 52nd edition of the 675-page “Solo Stats” book, the compendium of Solo Nationals records, will be available soon on Amazon. This book contains more than the stats above; it's a complete record of everyone who has ever competed at the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championships. If you've ever attended the Solo Nats, you're in this book, and you're going to want a copy.