Rocky Entriken

“Solo Stats” is the record book of the Sports Car Club of America’s National Solo (autocross) Championships.

I am a newspaper journalist who moved to covering motorsports after retiring from the local paper in 1995. I have written for National Speed Sport News, Racer, SportsCar, Performance Racing Industry, and other publications. I have been involved in sports car competition since 1965 and a member of SCCA since 1971, competing in both autocross and road racing.

I wrote my first story for SCCA’s SportsCar Magazine in 1972. In 1973 SportsCar assigned me to cover the inaugural Solo Nationals. Except for 1975, when I was chair of the third Nationals, I have covered, or directed as editor, the coverage of every Nationals since, which became the database of “Solo Stats.”

I competed in both Solo and Road Racing for many years in a race-prepared 1964 Triumph Spitfire, and currently in Solo in a Street-class 2000 Mazda Miata.

In Solo I have won several regional and divisional championships, and in 1986 a National Championship in Solo I (now Time Trials). In Road Racing I have won two Divisional championships (2006, 2010) and competed once in The Runoffs (Road Racing’s national championship). I have also been divisional pointskeeper for SCCA’s Midwest Division since 1973.

I have been honored with some of SCCA’s most prestigious awards, including:

• The Solo Cup (1981), the highest award in the Solo Program.

• The England-Stipe Award (1989), the highest award in SCCA’s Midwest Division.

• The Vern Jaques Award (1998), the highest award from SportsCar Magazine.

• The Richards Award (2019), the highest award from SCCA’s Salina Region (inaugural recipient)

• The Woolf Barnato Award (2022), SCCA’s highest award.

• Inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame (2023).