Author: RE Iowa Region SCCA

Hello fellow racers and friends. Really quick. Thank you. Thank you for coming out when it’s hot and racing and thank you for everyone who helped make the tough decision. Thank you for speaking up when you knew things were too hot and weren’t getting cooler. For everyone who said something there were 5 who didn’t. I feel we made the right call.

On a cooler note, results are live on our results tab and here.

Raw – Pax – Pro/Nats – Final

Little Longer, oh my goodness it was hot. Me, being me I wore my normal autox outfit which apparently was too much clothing. Although I’ve had worse.

 

Continue reading “AutoX 2026 Event #7 Hawkeye Too Hot Tech Mini Recap” →

Guess what? I forgot to do an event #4 recap on here, but we did film one on Trackless Racing Club’s youtube. I believe it’s ready for upload… once it’s done I’ll put it here. Until then.

Results from event #4 can be found on the results page here

The event went smooth and the course was similar to our earlier Hawkeye Tech event with some slight tweaks, it’s a super fun layout and the event runs nice and smooth. We’re hinting at doing something different for the next Hawkeye Tech event. I’ll make a post about it soon.

Notable battles.

XB – 9 drivers. Bill taking first place in the Penguin Garage GR Corolla with a flying 30.851. 2nd Place was Mike in the Turbo Miata with a 32.312. 3rd and final trophy spot in class was Brett in the BRZ tS with a 32.509.

Novice – 11 drivers. 4th Place Alec in the 318i BMW with a 35.212 (30.247), 3rd Place David in the Mini with a 34.862 (29.946), 2nd Place Alex in the DST BRZ with a 36.310 (29.774) and 1st Place Ethan in the BS BRZ tS with a 35.677 (29.362)

Pro Pax – 8 drivers. 3rd Place Jeff in the Sprinto with a 28.042 (25.406), 2nd Place Jeremy in the same Sprinto with a 27.713 (25.108), eeking out 1st place is Andrew in the Tesla with a 29.728 (24.941). These are only the first 3 runs as Pro and Nats Pax Classes first 3 runs are all that count for class trophies and points similar to a big SCCA Solo Nationals event.

Nats Pax – 6 drivers. 2nd Place Ryan Klopf with a 30.901 (26.173) and 1st Place in the Camaro Ramon with a 30.700 (25.419).

This is going to be a short recap.

1.) Results are live here Results

2.) It was wet and kinda gross in the AM during setup, but we made the best of it. The latest round of concrete work allowed us to have a different finish and a few different routes on course. I think it worked out well.

3.) We had 11 Novice, 7 Pro and 5 Nats drivers. There were 35 drivers in open classes. Awesome turnout with the early morning rain (and our cap).

4.) Thank you everyone for coming out! please share photos and videos on our Facebook. Tag @IowaRegionSCCA.

Here’s a recap video.

Iowa Region SCCA AutoX #2 2026 @ Hawkeye Downs

We had 65 people enter and compete during the 2nd points event of 2026 hosted at Hawkeye Downs in Cedar Rapids, IA. The weather was a little questionable before runs started but it turned out to be a great day for AutoX. We did 6 runs for the day split into 4 different heats. We did morning and afternoon runs.

Results are live here – Results

Nats Pax Battle, get it done in 3 runs.

The morning brought stiff competition with all classes but especially with the highly contested Nats Pax class! They had 9 drivers, after 1st runs only Ian had a clean run. 2nd runs were no cleaner only Ian was clean after 2 runs! Nats Pax only gets 3 runs to make it count each event, with everyone dirty except Ian going into run 3 everyone was itching to make it happen. When this happens, do you play it safe? do you go for the hero run? It’s a toss up. Skyler and Max both decided to try for hero runs and both ended up dirty! Mike was next in 5th with a clean run of 53.665 (XA 46.197), Zach’s first dirty run was still fast enough for 4th place with 54.295+1 (DST 46.161). Ian was clean all morning and it locked him into a 3rd place finish with a 55.278 (EST 45.051). Ryan and Keegan cleaned up their first two runs and were able to lock down cone free runs. Ryan with a flyer 51.544 (CAMS 43.657) and Keegan with a nearly unfathomable 49.398 (XB 42.432) sitting in first for Nats Pax!! Great driving everyone!

 
Continue reading “Autox 2026 Event #2 Hawkeye Downs Recap” →

2026 Event #1 Recap

Iowa Region SCCA Event 1 2026 Hawkeye Tech

Final Results

Pax Results

Raw Results

 

The Battle of the wind and cold

First off it was freezing this past weekend. Literally, there was frost on the ground when I left my house to drive to Hawkeye Tech. It didn’t warm up much till we finished the trophy presentation after the event was over.

During the morning runs things happened and I’ll update this with more info.

During heat 2 of the morning sessions more things happened. It was a little warmer but not alot. 

3rd and 4th heat we had competition, more on that later.

Final after clean up and everything we distributed the year end (2025) trophies. They are awesome!

2026 Iowa Region SCCA AutoX Schedule Teaser

10 Events for Iowa Region SCCA AutoX

19

April 2026

Hawkeye Tech

7:30am Gates Open

Waterloo, IA

Register

3

May 2026

Hawkeye Downs

7:30am Gates Open

Cedar Rapids, IA

Register

17

May 2026

Iowa City Municipal Airport

7:30am Gates Open

Iowa City, IA

Register

7

June 2026

Hawkeye Tech

7:30am Gates Open

Waterloo, IA

REGISTER

Complete Schedule found here 

TnT and Points Event #7!

Iowa Region SCCA descended onto Hawkeye Tech for two days of autox action. Day 1 on Saturday was a test n tune. We had about 20 drivers who completed 400 runs all together. We started driving at 11am and finished at 4pm. The course had some fun technical elements but was fast, good mix of both. 

 

2 Courses? 2 Days?

Test N Tune and Points events run two different courses for each day, sometimes we just reverse the course for day 2 but this time we completely revamped the course for the points event on Sunday. 

With 39 drivers check in for the points event we got 7 runs before everyone decided it was too darn hot to continue. haha.

Battle

The battle for Top Pax was spicy as always. Andrew in the Tesla, Emery in the Civic, Keegan in the Lotus and Jeremy in the DMod were trading spots all day, with the warming afternoon conditions we were curious if the temps were going to slow people down but most people picked up time. 

PAX?

Top Pax battle ended up with the Tesla in 4th with a 27.112, The civic in 3rd with a 26.976, The Lotus in 2nd with a 26.954, and first place on their last run Jeremy in Dmod with a 26.855!

Who is in?

Next event is Sunday August 17th at Hawkeye Downs. Will you be ready?

Drew

RE Iowa Region SCCA

*photos by Troy C.

 

Iowa Region SCCA was at Hawkeye Downs this weekend. It was another awesome event, there was some early rain that caused a delay. Hawkeye Downs needs to have a dry line for us to run, when the rain stopped we sent out most of the participants to drive the course backwards and get us a dry line. Worked great. ahaha.

Once things were dried up we had the driver’s meeting and novice walk. Hawkeye Downs has a somewhat similar layout each time due to the overall shape of the course, but we have some wiggle room for variation.

We had 65 people handle the rain delay, 22 of them were in our Novice class. Pro and Nats PAX classes had 12 Drivers. B Street and F Street were the biggest open classes with 6 and 4 respectively. Excellent turnout for the poor forecast we had all week.

Novice class was heated competition and a big variety of cars. 6th Place was Tary in their Focus ST with a 48.252(59.571), 5th Place was David in their ’01 Viper with a 48.226 (56.273). Pegleg of the Ballast Boys came in 4th in their Mustang with a 47.128 (57.126), Mike arrived in a C8 Z06 and laid down a time good enough for 3rd place in Novice a 46.716 (55.881). 2nd place was Ballast Boy Mark in their Mustang laying down a flyer of a last lap with a 46.062 (56.105). The top spot in Novice for event #6 was a DStreet GR86 driven by Dustin who ran a 45.095 (55.605).

The Ballast Boys are a newly minted group of AutoXers who have all been laying down their fastest laps on their last run with passengers! The debate is ongoing if it’s peer pressure, coaching or weight balance that allows them to drop time on their final runs when their friends are strapped into the right seat. Mark dropped 1.2x seconds on his last run, Pegleg also dropped 1.2x seconds with a passenger, Teddy’s fastest run was their 5th run which was a solid .6 seconds faster than previous attempts. We’re going to need more data from the Ballast Boys to figure out the answer to “the why”, but I’m excited to watch them drop time each run throughout the day. Upcoming test n tune should prove fruitful for data collection, get it Ballast Boys!

The Iowa Region SCCA Pro and Nats PAX classes had good numbers this event. With only the first 3 runs counting the pressure is really on. In the Nats PAX Class the KM crew of Dan and Ramon were trying to catch Dave in their GR86, even with flying raw times in the 46s the Kart couldn’t overcome the DS PAX. Dave solidified their top spot in Nats PAX with a 42.466 (52.363), Dan and Ramon had 43.345 (46.260) and 43.523 (46.450) respectively. Being a PAX class the (raw times) get multiplied by the class PAX multiplier to get a PAX time, this allows comparison of very different vehicles. The Pro PAX class was a Civic sandwich with Brent in GS, Jeremey in DM and Emery in GS taking 3rd, 2nd and 1st respectively.  Brent cracked off a fast 3rd run with a 42.493 (53.518), Jeremy squeezed out a 44.8 raw time for his 3rd run but picked up a cone, having to stand on his 2nd clean run with a 41.543 (45.854) just .6 back from Emery. Emery had a blistering fast first run with a 51.922 raw time, but managed to drop even more time in run 3 with a 40.905 (51.518) which held off Jeremy for the Pro Pax 3 and done format. 

The drivers in Open, Novice, Nats and Pro Pax classes all compete together for Top Time of Day (Raw) and Top Pax, all your runs count for all classes for FTD (Top Time of Day) and Top Pax. Usually we see faster times in the afternoon with warming temps and people being more familiar with the course. Top Pax AND Top Raw time were held by Jeremy in the DMod RC1.4t. Top Pax and FTD is an awesome feat, great driving Jeremy, 44.676 Raw and 40.476 Pax times. This 44.6 backed up Jeremy’s morning scratch time showing the time was there! 2nd and 3rd in Raw are Dan and Ramon in the KMod Kart with 45.843 and 46.260. The Kart is really starting to come into its own with Dan and Ramon piloting it. 2nd and 3rd in PAX were Andrew in their EVX Tesla and Emery in the GS Civic. The EVX Tesla had a 40.755 PAX just .279 behind 1st, Emery was only .150 behind Andew in the Tesla! Great driving everyone! Keep up the close battles. 

Full results can be found on the results tab or here.

July 20th – Hawkeye Downs – Final Results | Raw Results | Pax Results | Pro & Nats Class Results

Can’t wait to see everyone at the next event this weekend! Lets get the seat time!

Drew

RE Iowa Region SCCA

“This was one of my favorite courses at this site”

-Anonymous Camaro driver who got 2nd in PAX. 

Photos by E.MS_Photography

 

Iowa Region SCCA

Event #2

Hawkeye Tech

Hawkeye Tech is always a fun event, the surface is great and it’s always nice to have real bathrooms. The Gates opened at 7am for the early arrivers and the timing truck with all the cones rolled in a little later. Course design was done by Joe, he started with the idea to have a little bit different crossover and it ended up working out great. It really rewarded you when you got it right, but if you got it wrong you knew. After tech inspection, course walks, drivers meeting was buttoned up we had first cars out on course. First heat had nearly all of the non street classes and the Pro Pax Class. The battle for first in Pro was heated, but Spencer ultimately pulled out the 1st place finish after the 3 runs. While most Heat 1 cars with doors were trying to get down into 33s, one person managed to do a 32! Andrew cracked off a 32.5 in their EVX Tesla!!

Heat 2 was most street classes, Novice and Nats Pax class. Novice had 15 drivers!! The top 5 drivers in Novice were up for a battle, the top 5 with in 2 seconds of each other! The Nats Pax class was a great mix of cars. Camaro, DSP RX8, FMod, GR86, and Alfa Romeo. The RX8 and GR86 couldn’t hold off the FStreet Camaro driven by Ryan. Ryan clipped off a 34.3 to seal their spot as #1 for the day.

Heats 3 and 4 went smooth with people dropping time with the warming concrete. A large majority found their times dropping in the afternoon. The course was very friendly to the corner workers with very few cone penalties. There was one person who had over 10% of total cone penalties on one run! They own a Miata with the nickname Cone Killer so it’s to be expected. 

Our next event is on May 18th at Hawkeye Downs! Come out and join us.

  • Top Pax Andrew Tesla Model 3 27.140
  • Top Raw Jeff DMod 31.165
  • 1st Pro Pax Spencer CS Miata
  • 1st Nat Pax Ryan FS Camaro
  • 1st Novice Gavin Tesla Model 3 37.333

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