2026 Iowa Region SCCA AutoX Schedule Teaser
10 Events for Iowa Region SCCA AutoX
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
Event Recap IC Airport Points Event #1 Iowa Region SCCA
Iowa Region SCCA and our 65 drivers descended into the Iowa City Airport on Sunday AM to see who could have the most fun in the heavy winds. Registration Check in ended at 9am with a great turn out and nearly over flowing Paddock! IC Airport has its struggles with logistics but we made it work. Big thank you to the team that helped with Registration check in and Paddock organization. Everyone got their cars tech inspected and then walked the course. After course walks and tech inspection was completed we hosted the Driver’s Meeting. We had a great number of novices and newbies participate in the Novice walk after the driver’s meeting. It is awesome to see newer drivers come out and experience AutoX for their first times. The smiles ear to ear and the massive drops in time proved they enjoyed it!!
After the novice walk was complete, workers assigned to their positions, and a grid full of warmed up cars of all types we were ready to rock. 1st heat went great, lots of fast cars and drivers. They got to come back to grid following the newly repaired finish area shut down, much less gravel getting thrown around. The First Heat got 3 runs in the warming temps, initial reports were very positive on the course design. We aimed for a fast but technical course, I think we got it right. The fastest driver in heat 1 was Andrew in their EVX Tesla with a 32.7, but it was dirty giving the top time for heat 1 to XA driver Matthew in their BMW with a clean 33.2!
Second Heat began after the workers came in and got their cars warmed up and Heat 1 drivers got their work assignments. Heat 2 was ready for battle with both the Novice Group and Pro Class in the mix. Every one got their 3 runs in. Pro Class only gets 3 runs to get it right similar to Nationals and other big events, after these 3 runs Pro Class Results were locked in. Brent in their BST Evo took 1st with a 28.001 Pax time, edging out 2nd place Drew in Jade’s XA STI by .052 seconds in Pax. Top Novice time in heat 1 was Austin “Peg Leg” in their Mustang GT with a 39.997, cracking into the 39s! 4 other novices would crack into the 39s today. Fastest open class car in heat 2 was Jim in their FMod with a 32.0! flying.
After very short lunch period (Quick note: we try to give time for lunch but it is rare there is time to leave site and grab lunch. Always suggested to bring your own lunch.) we started heat 3 which is the same drivers and workers from heat 1, the drivers get a chance to better their morning runs in the warming conditions. Its amazing how a little warmer track temp and sunshine can make the times drop! A lot of people dropped time in the afternoon session, some people worked hard to clean up dirty morning runs. Top time for the day in Street Class 34.2 from Mike in their Lotus, followed closely by Tim in their C8 Corvette with a 34.8. Top Time in X class was Andrew in their Tesla with a blistering 32.6 which was good enough for 2nd in PAX for the day.
Heat 4, final heat of the day was ready to kick off with the drivers from Heat 3 checked into their Heat 4 work assignments and Heat 4 drivers patiently waiting in Grid. The Pro Class having finished runs for pro class championship points was set and ready to battle for Top Time of Day and Top Pax Time of the Day, throwing caution to the wind and staying as fast as possible through the cross over and turn around at the backside of the course. It paid off, Brent clicked off a flying 32.2 that no other car with doors could catch in Raw or Pax. There were 4 cars cracked into the 32s after finish of heat 4, but Brent took top spot in PAX. Top Raw was dominated by the Mod Cars, Jim in FM with a 32.0, Bryan in DM with a 31.6 and Jeff in DM with the fasted time of the day (FTD) with a 31.3!! Novice class ended up with 15 drivers today! One driver dropped nearly 20 seconds from their first to their last run, most got quicker by 4 to 7 seconds between their slowest clear run and their fastest clean run. That is awesome improvements. Great job novices, can’t wait to see you racing more with us during the year and competing for top novice trophy spots! All first year autoxers can compete in the Novice class for the full year, driver (who is also a SCCA Member) with the highest points at the end of the year will get a sweet trophy. 2nd and 3rd year autoxers are allowed in Novice as well assuming you didn’t win Novice previously and have under 15 events under your belt.
Changes for 2025. New Pro Pax Class. New Classes
STU is now BST!
We’ve added another “Pro Pax” class called “Nats Pax”, this is the same great format of our “Pro Pax” class, but split from the Pro Pax class. Our Pro Pax at some events was over 12 drivers, this caused some run order complications. Anyone can compete in either class, except. Top 5 in Pro Pax for previous year and winner of Nats Pax will be required to run in Pro Pax the following year.
Pro Pax and Nats Pax classes get the same number of runs as everyone, but only the first 3 runs of the day count towards each class championship. All of your runs go towards FTD and Top PAX.
SCCA has revamped their Street Touring classifications to better align with Street Class groupings. Super Street Touring (SST) stays the same, A Street Touring (AST) was STR vehicles, B Street Touring (BST) was STU vehicles, C Street Touring (CST), D Street Touring (DST) was STX vehicles, E Street Touring (EST) was STS vehicles, G Street Touring (GST) was STH vehicles. We’re updating motorsport reg to the new classes still but event #1 results will show the correct classing.
We had a good turn out today with 44 drivers. Split into two heats of 22 drivers, we opt’d for 6 runs and 6 runs type heat layout. Everyone only working once. Between the 6/6 or 3/3/3/3 layout which do you prefer? The official results are live here Results – Iowa Region SCCA. It was a day for tight battles within Pro class and PAX. Pro Class 2nd and 3rd between Jeff and Brent .049 second difference. Pro Class 4th, 5th between Ramon and Dan in the KM Kart .103 different. Matthew and Ramon .031 difference in PAX, Aaron and Bryan .051, Troy, Mike, Jim and Steve with a .013 for Troy and Mike and .004 for Mike and Jim and Jim and Steve .055. Between the 4 of them it was 46.821 to 46.893, 72 Thousandths of a second difference! Teresa, Brandy and Robert 48. 458 to 48.528, 70 thousandths of a second different! We also had a tie between DS Brett and DSL Jen with a 47.562 PAX time, that’s .000 seconds different!
Keep up the hard work everyone and thank you to all the people who helped setup and tear down the event. We look forward to seeing everyone at our Nat’s TnT that is open to everyone on 8/25 and again at our next points event at IC Airport on Sept 15th (http://msreg.com/IA-AX-24-9-IC).
Points Championship through 7 events.
Top 20 drivers.
Iowa Region SCCA AutoX #1 in 2024 is in the books!
Results for the first event are live.
Saturday was Concrete and Course Prep. The newly fixed concrete opened up the course for us on Sunday. We tried a 3 heat version today, please comment or message me with your opinions.
Big shout out to every one of our 62 drivers and workers. I’ll prepare a better recap during the week.
Upcoming 2024 AutoX Schedule
Iowa Region SCCA AutoX 2024
19
May 2024
AutoX #3 Hawkeye Tech Transportation
8:00am
Hawkeye Tech Transportation, Waterloo, Iowa
22-23
June 2024
AutoX TNT#1 & AutoX #5 Hawkeye Tech
8:00am
Hawkeye Tech Transportation, Waterloo, Iowa
27-28
July 2024
AutoX TNT #2 & Autox #7 Hawkeye Tech
8:00am
Hawkeye Tech Transportation, Waterloo, Iowa
25
August 2024
AutoX Nationals TNT Hawkeye Tech
8:00am
Hawkeye Tech Transportation, Waterloo, Iowa
“It has been too long since the AutoX Season ended, I’m excited to get racing again. Thanks for releasing the scheduel! We’ll See you Soon” – Joe J DMod
Venue Event Counts
- IC Airport 4 Points Events
- Hawkeye Tech 4 Points Events
- Hawkeye Downs 3 Points Events
- Hawkeye Tech 3 TnT Events
2024 AutoX Begins
at the Iowa City Airport, we have 11 points events on the schedule this year with 3 additional test & tunes. We have 3 venues again this year; IC Airport, Hawkeye Tech Transportation and Hawkeye Downs. Registration for events will open the first week of February. Before the 1st event at IC Airport we’ll likely have a clean up of the airport. The Nationals test & tune is open to all Iowa Region members, but people headed to Nationals get first registration chance. If you’re new to Iowa Region we look forward to seeing you at our events, if you’ve been racing with us for a while welcome back! We’re excited to get back racing as much as you are. See you in April.