The Sport

If you've come to this page, you're probably wondering just what the heck Solo II racing is. Solo II racing, as it it known by the SCCA, is also called autocrossing. It's a competition of precision and driving skill rather than pure speed.

The typical autocross is a one car at a time race against the clock on a tight course, usually defined with traffic pylons and perhaps chalk, lime or paint. Most of the events I've been to are run in large unused parking lots, but events are also held at airports, full blown race tracks, or indeed anywhere there is enough relatively flat space to lay out a course. The courses I've run on are typically about half a mile or so long and take anywhere from 50 seconds to just over a minute for the fastest drivers to complete.

As I said, one car runs the course at a time. There is a variation on autocrossing called ProSolo where two cars compete against each other at the same time on mirror image layouts. I don't really know if that works as a 1-on-1 competition of if they're are still running for the clock. Solo I, if you're curious, is a similar to Solo II except that the cars run on real road courses.

An astounding variety of cars compete in various categories based on performance and modifications. That way, I can compete against other Sentra-like cars and not the Vettes and Porsches. For more on the classifications see this page of car classifications. All entries are eligible to claim the fast time of the day (FTD). In our region, FTD is regularly up for grabs between such diverse machines as Mazda Miatas, Pontiac Firebird Formulas, and Formula 440 cars.

For more information on Solo II, check out the Autocross FAQ, the Solo II Novice Handbook, or just Email me and I'll try and answer your questions.