The Sports Car Club of America’s™ championship season is over, but we had to await the final SCCA® National Championship event that came at the end of October to mark down the last entry in the officially-unofficial Solo® Nationals record book called the “Solo Stats” (created and maintained by yours truly) – this final event coming almost two months after the completion of the 53rd Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championships, which is the foundation of the “Solo Stats” book. The holdup in this process was the completion of the “Crossover Champions” section of the record book, recording those who have won National Championships in Solo as well as another of SCCA’s competition disciplines. And it’s a good thing I waited, because this year introduced the Triple Threat.
In the inaugural year of the Tire Rack SCCA Time Attack National Championship (the aforementioned late October event) came the first “Triple Threat” for SCCA’s winner-take-all events in the name of Kansas Region member Eric Prill (who is also SCCA’s Vice President of Road Racing). Prill has won three times at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs® in an F Production Miata (2017, 2019, and 2022). He then added a Solo National Championship title with a D Modified win in 2019 co-driving a Locost 7 with Bob Tunnell. This year, he won the Club Spec MX-5 class at the Time Attack National Championship at Eagles Canyon Raceway in Texas.
Adding to the record book of Crossover Champions this year also includes Texas Region’s David Whitener, who is a five-time Solo National Champion in Street Touring Sport and Street Touring FWD classes, and this year he topped the Max 5 class at Eagles Canyon. Brian Peters, Phoenix AZ Solo Region, is an eight-time Solo National Champion in eight different classes, who won Tuner 2 this year in Time Attack. And finally, Scotty B. White, Northwest Region, was the Street Mod 2 National Champion in 2003 who won a Runoffs crown this year in Touring 2.
Now, back to strictly Solo National Championships record stuff.
The above information, as well as the information below (plus info and stats on every single driver who has ever competed at SCCA’s Solo National Championships), is available in my “Solo Stats” book, which you can order from Amazon by clicking here. A searchable PDF version is available by contacting me directly at [email protected].
In assembling this year’s “Solo Stats” book, some fascinating information caught my eye, like…
The Most
We have Cal Club Region’s Jeff Kiesel, strictly an autocrosser, who now owns the Most Championships record at 19, 18 of them in his green E Mod Sprite after his maiden 2006 BP win in a Mazda RX-7. This year’s victory broke him out of an 18-win tie with John Thomas (who was second in DP this year).
Along with Kiesel’s record-breaking victory, plus daughter Kaila Kiesel’s score in EML, the Kiesel family, including wife Shawn and son Zak, now own 40 championship trophies – a monstrous score to top the Family Championships category by fully 15 wins.
Longest Gap
At the other end of the spectrum we have Bill Green of Colorado Region, who was driving in his fourth Solo Nationals, bringing up the rear in EVX with a Tesla Model 3. The thing is, his third Nationals was in 1977, 49 years ago! That one was a trophy finish, second in G Stock. Green now owns the record for the longest gap between two Solo Nationals appearances, set just two years ago by Boyd Butler of Utah Region who’d returned 41 years after his previous appearance.
After bringing his Opel GT to the 1975 Solo Nationals in Salina, KS, Green said, “I started driving my parents’ 1971 Datsun 1200 and found it was really competitive in G Stock.” He was GS runner-up two straight years, then completed a mechanical engineering degree at the University of Colorado. “Between my career and raising kids, I didn’t autocross again until my oldest son turned 16.” Both of his sons are now autocrossers too.
“Remarkable how advanced cars have become,” Green added, “as I was driving back from Lincoln in Tesla full self-driving mode,”
More Hardware
SCCA has 115 individual Regions, seven of them never having a trophy winner at the Solo National Championships. This year, the “never” list drops to six: Nathan Hagerott is the first Region-of-record member from Great River Region to claim a Solo Nationals trophy, fourth place in H Street in just his second trip to Lincoln.
The trophy tally shows a pair of record setters on the Ladies side. Ginette Jordan of New Englnd Region won FSPL and caught up to Patty Tunnell for the most trophies won by a female driver. Both are at 26 trophies now. Meanwhile, Nicole Wong of Phoenix Region extended her string to 17 years of taking a trophy every year she’s competed. Wong also moved into a five-way tie among drivers who have won in the most different categories. Her CAMCL victory is the fifth different category among her 12 championships.
The same distinction among male drivers has Mark Daddio stretching his margin ever farther, his 34 trophies tops not only the won-every-year list but also the tally for most consecutive trophy finishes.
The Big Time
1,305 drivers crossed the lights this year, the third-largest Solo Nationals and the largest since the record year of 1,375 in 2018. Categories producing new highs on the entry list were the Spec classes (138), CAM (122), Xtreme (121), and the 14 EVXs were the most in its five years.
2026 was also the year “Supplemental” classes disappeared. Oh, there were still three classes running on something other than championship status, but the word “Supplemental” was gone. Xtreme Unlimited (XU) was declared to be a “Developmental” class, while both Formula SAE And Electric Vehicle (EVX) were deemed to be “Exhibition” classes.
That meant the popular CAM classes and the other two strongly supported Xtreme classes were full-fledged championship classes this year, both with record entries. In its first appearance in 2014, the three CAM classes produced 14 entries. CAM-Ladies did not exist until four years ago. This year, 122 competitors battled in the CAM category.
The 60 drivers in XA and 57 in XB comprise the two largest Xtreme classes yet in the brief five years of their existence. Including XU, Xtreme fielded 123 drivers.
And take a look at Keith Lamming of Kansas City Region. He was a class winner that first year, taking CAM-Contemporary – the largest class (seven cars) in a 2011 Camaro. Now, with full championship status for the first time, Lamming was right there again driving this year in CAM-Traditional, again in the largest of the CAM classes at 43 cars. This time Lamming was in a ’68 Camaro and once again on the top step of the podium.
Silver Circle and 100 Percenters
The Silver Circle added seven names to the list, bringing the total to 194 drivers who have competed in 25 or more Solo Nationals. The new members are Wayne Atkins, Texas Region; Annie Gill, Northwest Region; David Green, Wichita Region; James Harrison, Wichita Region; Scott Hearne, Northwest Ohio Region; Pilar Miranda, San Francisco Region; and Heyward Wagner, Atlanta Region.
The 100 Percenter group has now dropped to just four names after PAX guru Rick Ruth failed to make the trip. The four who have now competed in all 53 Nationals are Dick Berger, Kansas City; Charlie Clark, Kansas City; Rocky Entriken, Salina; and George Schweikle, Central Kentucky.
About the author: Rocky Entriken is the official historian of the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championships. His record book of the event, titled “Solo Stats,” contains more than 700 magazine-size pages of history and statistics of the event from 1973 onward, including the placings of everyone who has ever put a wheel through the lights at the Solo Nationals. The book is available on Amazon.com. Or, a searchable PDF version is available by contacting him directly at [email protected].
Photo of Bill Green competing at the 2026 Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championships, some 49 years after his last appearance at the event, by Jeff Loewe