SCCA Solo is one of the easiest, safest, and most popular ways to become a participant in motorsports instead of just a fan or spectator. Solo events also provide an excellent opportunity to improve your driving skills and to explore your car's performance capabilities in a controlled environment.

Solo events, also known as autocrosses or slaloms, are a type of single car timed competition which place an emphasis on driver skill and precision. Solo courses are usually laid out on large paved areas such as parking lots and airport runways. Each driver gets several chances to negotiate a twisting course defined by plastic traffic cones while being electronically timed. To win, a man or woman must be both quick and precise as there is a time penalty added for each marker cone that is displaced, and victories are often measured in thousandths of a second.

Best of all, you don't need a special racing car, or even a sports car, to take part. With four categories of preparation divided into 38 different car classes, including 24 classes for stock or mildly modified street cars, each driver and car competes against other cars of similar performance, whether it's a stock economy car, an all out racing car, or something in between. In our DMVR events we also have separate classes for Novice competitors, as well as special Pro, Street Tire, and Vintage categories where cars from different classes compete together with their times equalized using a nationally recognized "handicapping" index.

Des Moines Valley Region traditionally hosts at least 9 Solo events each year, usually on the third Sunday of the month. For competitors wishing even more challenge there are also R&S Racing and Solo Performance Midwest Division Championship Series events, as well as the SCCA Solo National Championship when over 1200 entrants from across the US will gather in Lincoln, Nebraska next fall. Other variants of SCCA Solo events include Pro Solo, in which two competitors race simultaneously on "mirror image" courses after a drag race type start, and Time Trials events, which are higher speed single car events held on road racing courses.

For more information on Des Moines Valley Region and other nearby Solo events contact our Solo Events Director John Jacobs, at 515-758-3911, our Solo Rules Director Mark Hayes at 641-507-9280 or visit our Solo Schedule & Results page. You can also click here for some photos from past events.