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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.

Sunday, January 12th, 25 racers headed to the new Freitag field for the first event of the season. Cold temperatures and a heavy wind for our first ever event at this new venue made it quite a chilly day. The wide-open rolling hills of this 140!!! acre field are going to make for some great events!

The top time and first in Stock FWD for this inaugural event goes to Issac H, who piloted his Honda Prelude to victory by a mere 0.965 seconds over 2024 class Champion Charles P.  This close battle came down to cones hits with Charles’s three costing him the win.  Charles also took 2nd overall, helping show that FWD may have its advantages in winter racing conditions.

Stock RWD saw Brian T piloting his Camaro on course, and as more ice started to form, he was putting on a show.  Even with the show, he was able to beat Jeff W by less than a second.  Jeff was having shifter issues “because his wife Candy broke it.”  We’re not sure we believe you on this Jeff!  Memories of Camry bumpers flying off and other incidents are still fresh in our minds. 😉

3rd fastest overall was Greg L, piloting the ever popular, unkillable RuSTI (04 Legacy) to a 4 second win in Stock AWD over Dave M in his clean STI.  Greg was fast out of the gate, with his first two runs of the day giving him this lead.  He was able to maintain it for the rest of the day despite having Dave hot on his heels.  Of special note in Stock AWD was the ’02 BMW 325xi, whose owner was trying to give it a Viking’s funeral with FOUR drivers pounding on it all day.  Amazingly, the car took this abuse without complaint.  Perhaps you guys need to actually give the car some love and keep in around after this impressive performance!

6th fastest overall and first in Prepared FWD went to Devin P, despite some clutch issues with his RSX.  He was really tearing it up, putting down times faster than most of the AWD cars, even with having to hold the shifter into second gear.

Modified RWD was a class of one with Todd F drifting his Jeep Wrangler around the course.  We hope you join us again Todd!

5th fastest overall went to 2024 MAWD Champion Aaron B, who also captured first in Mod AWD.  Aaron would likely have ended up first overall, but he made a costly tire change at the break, in hopes of finding more speed.  Instead, these tires had less grip and caused him major control issues. 2nd in class went to Christopher G, who was handling his GMC Yukon like a vehicle 1/4 its size. Chris raced with us once before a few years back and shocked everyone with how quick he can get his Yukon around a course.  As an aside, large, top-heavy SUV/trucks like this cannot be raced with us in stock form.  Chris has greatly increased the track width of his Yukon, allowing it to meet our track width to height requirements.

In the SXS class, Cory S was throwing his Maverick around and having fun.  We imagine it was awfully cold in that machine, so we hope you had a great time, Cory!

Full results for the event can be seen here.  I want to thank everyone that came out and raced with us, helped with teardown, and breaking into my truck! Perhaps it’s time to add a lockout kit to the items in the rallycross trailer! 😀

I can’t wait to see everyone back at the Freitag’s on February 2nd!!!  Be sure to get registered at www.msreg.com/IAFebRallyX as soon as possible.

~Jay

Our annual two-day rallycross competition against the other regions of CenDiv took place this past weekend.  We had a beautiful day for racing on Saturday, but Mother Nature decided a monsoon would be fun for Sunday.  Racers from six states took on the long courses that the Darlington venue is known for.  The average racer got about 18 minutes of seat time on Saturday and 15 on Sunday, leading to lots of fun and big smiles all around.  We’d like to thank Mayhew Tools for once again sponsoring the event and providing tool giveaways for our racers.

As always, this write up gets a bit long, so the TL,DR version is: you need to attend this event next year as you’ll get a huge amount of seat time while hitting speeds you typically don’t see at a rallycross event.  There’s also a great social element, as nearly everyone stays at the same hotel and we invade restaurants as a group.  Plus, we typically have some great door prizes and cheese curds!

Saturday

38 drivers tore up the 3+ minute course that flowed over the rolling hills of the 35 acre farm field.  The course was a bit biased to those with more horsepower.  The course was designed to be as flowing as possible due to soft ground conditions from rain earlier in the week.  Aggressive tires also played a large role as the shredded corn stalks made for initially slick conditions.

Stock FWD had five racers mixing it up for the top spot.  Brian S jumped off to an early lead in his ’08 Honda Fit despite the ice-like slickness of the corn stubble.  He never looked back, opening up the gap further on every run to take the class win by over 24 seconds.  He also captured 10th overall amongst the heat 1 competitors (a full comparison against the heat 2 cars cannot be done as they had MUCH improved course conditions).  Ben D captured 2nd in class with his ’06 Mini Cooper S which is a great finish considering this is his first season of rallycross!

Nearly a 20 year gap separated the cars competing in Stock RWD, with Luke W piloting a ’90 Miata versus Daniel L’s ’18 BMW 330e (without a doubt the cleanest and nicest car on course).  Luke utilized his years of racing experience to take the class win by a good margin as well as 6th for heat 1.  Daniel was getting the hang of rallycross by the end of the day, with his final run being over 30 seconds faster than his first.

Stock AWD was a surprisingly small class this year, with only Hugh H and Michael G battling it out in Hugh’s ’96 SVX.  Much pre-race trash talk occurred, with bets placed on who would win.  Hugh took the lead right off the bat, though Michael clawed back a lot during runs 3 & 4.  At the break, Hugh was up by only 2 seconds.  When action resumed, Hugh put the hammer down and took a commanding lead, taking the win by 12 seconds as well as taking 2nd overall in heat 1.  This race would have been much closer had Michael been able to stay away from the cones, as he took ten seconds of penalties.  Michael, I hope you enjoyed your loser’s shot of Malört!

Four competitors took to the course in Prepared FWD.  Having the most horsepower and most aggressive tires allowed David C to take control from the start in his ’04 SRT4.  David captured the class win by 62 seconds as well as first overall for the morning heat.  Devin P tried his best to close this gap while learning how to get the most performance out of his newly acquired ’03 RSX-S, but had to settle for second with a comfortable margin over 3rd place.

Prepared RWD was a competition between American muscle (’98 Mustang GT piloted by Sam S & Dustin P) and Japanese nimbleness (’96 Miata piloted by Jake R & Tony K).  The two Miata drivers quickly pulled away from the Mustang (tires were definitely a factor here) and then slugged it out amongst themselves.  Things were looking very close until the final run of the morning when Tony put down a flyer of a lap, adding almost 8 seconds to his lead.  Despite a valiant effort by Jake, Tony held on to take the class win and 5th of the heat 1 cars.

Three Subarus mixed it up in Prepared AWD, though Brian O didn’t give his competitors much of a chance.  Brian used the horsepower of his ’06 STI to take the lead from run 1 and added to each run.  Brian took first by 49 seconds and 3rd overall for heat 1.  Second place was a much closer battle between Rochelle D (’07 Forester) and Eric E (’95 Impreza).  By the end of the morning runs, Rochelle had a comfortable lead, but then disaster struck on her first run in the afternoon.  Her Forester lost second gear and she was forced to take a DNF.  A mad scramble of attempted repairs ensued and ultimately failed, forcing Rochelle to take her final run using only first and third gear.  Despite her valiant effort, Eric was able to fend her off, capturing 2nd by less than 5 seconds.

From the first run, Modified FWD looked like it was going to be a knife fight between the three drivers.  Shane B (’91 CRX), Ryan J (’95 Neon), & Ryan K (’91 CRX) all posted very similar times, with Shane having just the slightest edge.  Unfortunately, this stiff competition was cut short, when the CRX sheared off the attachment point of one of its struts during Ryan’s K third run.  Despite the assured victory, Ryan J didn’t back off, laying down times that bested some of the MA cars.

1989 was a good year for Modified RWD, with two of the three cars having been manufactured then.  Eric A’s 2ZZ swapped Toyota MR2 was a crowd favorite, though the rumble of Scott B’s Mustang GT’s V8 was quite glorious.  These two had a great battle throughout the day.  Eric took an early lead over the first three runs but then Scott began charging hard for runs 4 through 6.  Despite Scott’s quicker times, Eric was able to hold on for the win, taking it by 3 seconds.  Eric also captured 8th overall.  A special mention goes out to Travis H for choosing to pilot an aircraft carrier on wheels, err I mean an ’01 Lexus GS300, through the course.  He definitely had it flying, in more ways than one!

Modified AWD was our largest class of the day, with 12 cars starting the day.  Sadly, three of these vehicles (4 drivers) failed mechanically by the second run.  Ben H (’06 STI) decided to demonstrate why everyone should buy the tires he distributes, putting significant time on all his competitors every run, culminating in a class win by over 31 seconds as well as first overall.  Second place was a very tight race with Aaron B (’95 Impreza) and Tony G (’04 STI) trading blows.  With one run remaining, it looked like Aaron might have second locked up with a 3.6 second lead.  Tony had different plans though, and laid down a flyer of a run that was 4 seconds faster than Aaron’s.  Tony captured second place by only 0.462 seconds, our closest gap of the day.  It’s amazing how after 15 minutes of actual racing time, a fraction of a second can decide the winner.

Sunday

The forecast for Sunday had been looking poor all week, but we all hoped for the best.  Mother Nature laughed in our faces and proceeded to drop over 2” of rain during our event, making for some of the sloppiest conditions I’ve ever seen.  We had planned for the worst though and set up a course with no outside cones to nearly eliminate the need for course workers.

Prior to the start of racing, it was an “all hands on deck” situation to try to get all the trailers and tow vehicles out of the field.  There was significant usage of recovery straps and much mud thrown in these efforts but we succeeded in getting everyone out without needing a tractor to be called in.  We then attempted to run the Stock/ snow tire cars first, so they had more of a chance in getting successful runs in.

In Stock FWD, Ben D made our first run of the day in his Mini Cooper S.  He successfully completed one lap, but it took a herculean effort.  His competitors decided to bow out of the event, after having problems even moving the cars in grid and seeing how difficult the course conditions were.  Thus, Ben took home first in class, thanks to braving the elements.

Over in Stock AWD, Jeff J, Hugh H, and Michael G decided to give it their best.  Sadly after one run, Hugh and Michael had to retire, as the heavy rain and water splashes created charging issues with the SVX’s alternator.  Jeff J soldiered on in his ’09 Impreza Outback Sport, capturing first in class.  Jeff also had the fastest time of the day for any car on snow tires, exceeding impressive given it was his first time rallycrossing.

Only two drivers made runs in Prepared FWD, David C (yours truly) and my co-driver Chris L in the ’04 SRT4.  Chris took all his runs first, as I was busy with event tasks.  Assisted by the best mud tires at the venue, Chris held first overall by the completion of his runs, besting all the AWD cars.  By the time I took my runs, the conditions had deteriorated further, with literal rivers running down the course and lakes forming in the low spots of the field.  Despite the conditions, I was able to best Chris’s times and take first in class and first overall.

Prepared AWD also had two drivers squaring off against the conditions and each other, Rochelle D (’07 Forester) and Jason J (’14 WRX).  Rochelle had gotten the second gear issue from Saturday figured out and attacked the course with a vengeance.  Rochelle easily captured first in class as well as sixth overall.  Jason successfully completed all his runs as well, despite the crazy conditions and it being his first time rallycrossing.

Eric A put on the most impressive performance of the day in his Modified RWD ’89 MR2.  Despite having arguably the most difficult car to drive in these conditions, he not only persevered, but dominated, taking first in class and 5th overall, besting 8 AWD cars.

Modified AWD saw six cars taking on the mudfest, including Adam D, who replaced an entire transmission in his ’93 Impreza overnight, having had it fail on Saturday.  Ben H, always quick in his ’06 STI, utilized his mud tires to take first, building up a 28 second gap over second.  Ben also took 3rd overall.  There was quite the battle for second between Aaron B and Adam D, but sadly Adam ended up having to take some DNF penalties, allowing Aaron to safely capture 2nd as well as 4th overall.

A huge shout out goes to anyone who competed on Sunday, given how ridiculous the course conditions were.  You all should be giving yourselves a pat on the back!

As previously mentioned, this whole event is also a competition between all the regions of CenDiv SCCA.  Each day, each racer earns points for their region, basis their standing in class.  For the fourth year in a row, Iowa Region brought home the bragging rights. The results for this competition can be seen below.

A big thank you goes out to everyone that assisted with the event as well as to those who came out to race.  We hope you all had fun!  We’re especially grateful for the property owners for allowing us to use their field and buildings!  Freeze Your Curds Off 2025 is already planned for November 1st and 2nd, so put it on your calendars now!

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).

It was an absolutely beautiful and delightfully cool summer day for our rallycross yesterday in Oskaloosa at the Southern Iowa Speedway.   All our drivers got to enjoy 11 runs on the roughly 110 second long course.  Grip levels were quite high, thanks to some rain on Friday putting some moisture in the ground.  The competition was intense, with some surprising winners.

Stock FWD had five drivers competing for the win, including the father & son duo of Charles and Devin P, a semi-regular attendee Aaron D, and a couple newbies.  After the first two runs, it looks like it was going to be a three-way knife fight between Charles, Devin, & Aaron, with less than a second separating all three.  Things changed drastically on the third run, with Aaron really finding his groove in his 2ZZ equipped Matrix XRS.  He began opening up the gap by at least two seconds every run, eventually taking 1st in class by 38 seconds as well as capturing 2nd overall.  Charles and Devin fought each other hard for second place, trading who was fastest several times.  With one run remaining, Charles was in the lead by roughly five seconds.  Charles took his final run first, getting out of sorts and running his slowest time of the afternoon as well as picking up a cone.  Devin’s second place spot appeared to be in the bag, until he also pushed too hard for his final run, picking up three cones to net a nearly identical run time to his dad.  Thanks to Devin’s mistake, Charles took 6th overall in addition to 2nd in class.  Our two newbies showed drastic improvement over the course of the day, with both dropping over ten seconds between their first and last runs.

Stock RWD was a class of one with Luke W putting on a master class of how to be a smooth yet fast driver in his Miata.  Luke captured an impressive 3rd overall in his Miata, besting cars with more than double the horsepower.

Stock AWD was our largest class of the day with 9 entries.  The usual SA culprits were in attendance, along with a couple less frequent attendees and one newbie.  The morning runs saw some fast times and very good competition with five drivers all in contention for first place.  Jay K was leading the pack despite some intermittent issues with his car.  When the drivers returned to competition in the afternoon, they had to deal with a freshly watered track.  The slick conditions led to much slower times at first.  Run times began dropping fast as the track began drying fast and there was some shakeup in the standings due to the variable conditions.  Disaster struck for Jay in the afternoon when the engine of his Outback Sport seized just after crossing the finish line while his co-driver Kim S was behind the wheel.  In the meantime, Hugh H had dialed in his racing line and began opening up a huge lead over the rest of the field.  He finished the day taking 1st in class by over 26 seconds and fourth overall.  2nd place went to Greg L, 3rd to David L, and 4th to Dave M.  Random trivia for the day: we had four David’s competing, three of them in SA.

Prepared FWD was a class of two with yours truly sharing my car with Cliff J.  Sadly, on the very first run on the day, the car stopped putting power to the wheels.  Fingers are crossed that it was a failure of the recently installed modular clutch and not a grenaded transmission.

Prepared RWD saw the return of Steve M in his Porchse 944.  Unfortunately, the car began struggling with a fueling and overheating problem after just a few runs.  Steve’s best efforts could not remedy the situation and he had to retire for the day before completing his runs.

Prepared AWD was a class of one with Ethan T in his lifted Outback sedan.  As a fellow owner of one of these cars, I really enjoyed seeing it compete.  Ethan dropped his run times all day, despite battling significant body roll from his Outback. 

Modified AWD was the class to watch at this event with very stiff competition between Mark M from Kansas City Region and Iowa Region’s Aaron B.  Mark had the horsepower advantage in his ’05 STI whereas Aaron’s gutted ’95 Impreza wagon had the edge in nimbleness.  After the five morning runs, Aaron had the lead by nearly 6 seconds, thanks to a rare missed gate by Mark.  As afternoon runs resumed, Aaron’s car wouldn’t start and a quick repair had to implemented.  In the meantime, Mark took his first run of the afternoon in the slick, post-water truck conditions, netting a painfully slow time.  The rapidly drying track gave Aaron much more grip on his late run and he opened up the gap to 19 seconds.  This gap was further opened on the second run to 26 seconds, again from the rapidly changing grip level of the course.  By the third run, both drivers had similar conditions and the battle for the fastest individual run of the day began.  Mark dropped a 100.261 on run four to briefly hold fastest lap of the day but then Aaron answered with a screaming 98.248 on run five to take and hold it for the rest of the day.  Aaron ended competition taking 1st in class by just shy of 31 seconds and captured 1st overall by nearly 3 seconds.  Mark captured 5th overall for the day in addition to 2nd in MA.  Side note, having taken a couple fun runs in Mark’s car in the afternoon, I can confidently say he was held back by the tires on his car.  The car understeered even through the slaloms and I can hardly fathom how Mark produced the lap times he put down.

Our next rallycross will be in Oskaloosa again on August 18th.  Make your plans to join us now as you will not want to miss out on the fun!

Only 13 racers took to the field on this beautiful past Sunday at CFMP, but the competition was still quite intense.  With the lower attendance, every racer got to make more runs as well as finish racing earlier in the day, so it was a win-win situation for everyone.

First up was Stock AWD, with Jay K (’06 Outback Sport) and Hugh H (’96 SVX) laying down extremely close times.  At the break, Jay was in the lead by over six seconds, thanks to a little cone trouble from Hugh.  The afternoon course favored horsepower a bit more, so Hugh started clawing into Jay’s lead.  It looked like this one was going to come down to the last run, but then Jay lost control right at the finish, plowing down six cones.  This allowed Hugh to take the win by 11.89 seconds, a lead of almost exactly the 12 seconds of penalty that Jay picked up.  Hugh also captured third overall with sharp driving.  Special mention goes out to Krista W, who tried out racing for the very first time!  She was obviously having a blast while dropping significant time between her first and last runs on each course.  We hope you’ll join us again Krista!

Running at the same time was Modified RWD, a class of one, with our most interesting entry from David G.  His apparent 1968 F250 was actually a Crown Vic with the truck body grafted onto it!  David had a lot of fun drifting the corners, putting down times that allowed him to take 9th overall as well as first in class.

Not to be shown up by the SA cars, Modified AWD contenders Ben H (’06 STI) and Aaron B (’95 Impreza Wagon) both threw dirt high in the air striving for first.  Ben shot himself in the foot on his very first run, missing a gate and taking a 10 second penalty.  He didn’t let this discourage him and he began to immediately eat into Aaron’s lead.  Ben had closed the gap to a minimal amount, but then began to tag cones as he pushed for the fastest possible runs.  These cones added up to a win for Aaron by a bit over 13 seconds, despite nearly all of Ben’s raw times being drastically faster.  Aaron also took first overall for the day with his quick and consistent runs.

Stock FWD was the familiar father-son battle between Charles P (’06 Civic) and Devin P (’02 RSX).  The Acura’s horsepower advantage allowed Devin to jump off to an early lead, but then his car began having troubles.  Charles wouldn’t allow Devin to retire for the day, and talked him into sharing Charles’ car. Devin ended up schooling his dad in his own car, taking the win by over 25 seconds.  You’ll get him next time Charles!

Prepared AWD was a class of one, with Kim K pushing herself to get faster throughout the day in her ’06 Outback Sport.  Kim got in a bit of cone trouble as the racing went on, but her raw times were definitely dropping all day long.  Sadly, her Sport decided it was done for the day with one run remaining, so she was forced to take a DNF for her final run.

Prepared FWD was yours truly and Cliff J, both sharing my ’04 SRT4.  While swapping on race tires in the morning, it appeared that one of the front struts might have sprung a leak. By the end of the morning heat, this leak has grown to a fully blown strut.  We elected to retire in the afternoon, as the car became almost undriveable with no damping on the rough ground.  Cliff did manage to continue his quest towards recapturing the Cone Killer award for 2024, picking up seven cones in only four runs.  We’ll just blame the strut, Cliff.  😉

Modified FWD saw the return of Shane B and Bryan K in their ’91 CRX.  Finishing the day was a battle for these two, as the car experienced numerous issues, including a tire that was aggressively leaking air through the bead.  Shane gave Bryan a solid lesson on how to drive their shared car, taking the win by 53 seconds.  Shane also captured fifth overall!

 

 

 

Rallycross will be taking a hiatus through the month of May due to venue scheduling conflicts, so our next event will be June 30th at the speedway in Oskaloosa.  This is our fastest and smoothest venue, so you will not want to miss racing there!

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.

 

Sunday, March 10th 17 racers spent their Sunday at Cedar Falls Raceway for the second Rallycross of 2024.

Despite the early start thanks to DST, it was a good day for racing, but a not so great day for mechanical mishaps.

Overall fastest time of the day and 1st place in Stock AWD goes to your author, after a hard fought battle with Hugh H. in his red 96 SVX ( No, not that one, the other one!), The final difference was only 4.2 seconds. Rallycross regular David L brought out his somewhat reluctant wife Kelsey to try rallycross for the first time. Kelsey set aside her worries and showed a ton of improvement throughout the day, dropping 5 seconds off her morning run times and 7 on her afternoon runs. Great Job Kelsey!!!!

2nd fastest overall and 1st in Prepared FWD all by himself, David C. wheeled his SRT4 through 9 cone penalties, yet was only 4 seconds behind me!!!

First in Prepared AWD and 8th fastest time of the day went to Kim K in her Outback Sport. Kim jumped out to an early lead, and didn’t look back. Ryan L had a few minor mechanical problems in the morning, but started to find a groove in the afternoon. His times showed a lot of improvement through the day. Great Job Ryan!

9th overall, and 1st in Stock FWD was Andrew A, piloting his wife’s 08 Passat. Hopefully he’s not sleeping on the couch for the rest of the week after beating her times. Taking 2nd was Andy L in his fun to watch, parts shedding 16 Prius. By the end of the day, I don’t think the car had any under cladding or heat shields left!

This brings us to our final class Modified AWD, which was the class of issues unfortunately. Our 10th fastest of the day and first in class was Aaron B. in his high compression 95 Impreza. Aaron was looking good, but a broken ball joint on his second run forced him to three DNF penalties in the morning. A quick off-heat repair got him back in action, and able to finish the afternoon course. In second was Brian L, who was also having issues. These issues resulted in him and his son Ian not finishing all of their runs.

Hard luck mention goes out to Eric L., who’s MA WRX decided to tell some knock knock jokes. I think we’re still all waiting to hear the punchline.

A big thanks to everyone who came out to race, and stuck around to help pick up. I hope everyone had fun, and we’ll see you back at Cedar Falls April 14th!  Another thanks goes out to Scott Vavroch for shooting a bunch of photos of us tearing up the courses!  His photos are featured in this post.

-Jay