By Collin Fat
Photos by Collin Fat

The 2025 autocross series was a tremendous success with one additional event and 488 drivers who registered for the events. Not including our last event of the season at the Toyota Amphitheatre in Wheatland, registered drivers totaled 431 drivers slightly down from a comparable 2024 event schedule with 8 events. Again, the annual autocross school, now in its 17^th year, was another consecutive sellout.

This year’s award recipients received their awards and accolades at a small awards luncheon with 26 recipients in attendance at Casa Ramos Restaurant in Roseville. There was a total of 18 awards given out, 14 for class awards, 2 for top PAX scores and 1 for the rookie of the year. Class awards were awarded to the top 3 finishers in each class.

The 3 top awards went to Grady Carter, Men’s PAX Champion, Joy Nieslony, Ladies Pax Champion, and David Gutierrez, Rookie of the Year. The PAX award is based on a handicapping system which takes into consideration whether the car is totally as it was delivered from the factory and any modifications from stock that were done to the car.

L/R: Collin Fat, David Gutierrez, Rookie of the Year, and John Leet

L/R: Joy Nieslony, Women’s Pax Champion, Collin Fat, John Leet

The rookie of the year is selected by the autocross team as a novice member who exemplified the spirit of the sport, demonstrated exceptional enthusiasm throughout the season, demonstrated consistent improvement, and participated in at least 5 events. David participated in every event this season and competed in 6 out of the 9 events in P-05 class. He drove his 2018 Porsche Turbo S.

Both Joy Nieslony and Grady Carter are perennial participants in the series with Grady notching his second PAX award and Class award in P-03. This was Joy’s first PAX championship in the ladies’ division and not her last.

Awards were given to the top 3 finishers in each class who participated in a minimum of 50% of our scheduled events. The following is the list of the class award recipients:

L/R: Matt Deter, Collin Fat, and John Leet

L/|R: Weyland Fat, Collin Fat, and John Leet

L/R: Jim Rostick, Collin Fat and John Leet

L/R: Kent Langendorff, Collin Fat and John Leet

L/R: Michael Klein, Collin Fat and John Leet

L/R: Bob Peake, Matt Deter and Rik Larson

FINAL SERIES RESULTS

Class	Rank	Driver	Total
A-05
	1T	Nathaniel Martin	79
	2T	Dana Carlson	72
	3T	Eric Freund	40
O-03
	1T	Andrew Howell	116
	2T	Kent Langendorff	108
	3T	Robert Hrabak	79
O-04
	1T	James Jackson	87
O-05
	1T	Jim Rosteck	94
P-03
	1T	Grady Carter	113
	2T	Michael Klein	100
	3T	Ray Witkowski	60
P-04
	1T	Greg Zajic	120
	2T	Bob Peake	78
P-05
	1T	John Leet	120
	2T	Weyland Fat	82
	3T	Matt Deter	72
P-06
	1T	Collin Fat	96
	2T	David Turner	76
	3T	Lanny Bowden	70

The winners of this season’s AX series awards were all extremely competent drivers with well-prepared cars, and all were focused on getting their best times no matter if it was the first or last run of the day. Congratulations to all the award recipients.

In other news, the autocross team for 2026 will reflect a change in leadership with Michael Klein taking the reins as chair and Kent Lagendorff as co-chair. Thank you for stepping up to lead the 2026 autocross program.

A huge thank you is for several long-term stalwarts of the autocross program who have decided to step down and hand the reins of the program over to a new team. A big thank you to Kent Treiber, course designer, Steve Nieslony, course setup, Weyland Fat, Tech, Collin Fat, AX Administrator and Matt Deter, autocross co-registrar. Greg Zajic will stay on as a coach for Michael Klein and Joy Nieslony will manage the position of registrar for yet another season.

The preliminary 2026 season has been drafted with most dates are subject to change pending contract signing with Thunderhill Raceway as well as coordination of dates for the two Zone 7 weekend co-hosted with Redwood Region.

 

	2026 SVR Autocross Dates
	Porsche Club Sacramento	Updated 10/14/2025
Date	Description	Location	Notes
March 8, 2026	AX Ground School	Porsche Rocklin
March 14, 2026	Porsche Rocklin AX School	Thunderhill
March 15, 2026	Autocross #1	Thunderhill
April 18, 2026	CRAB 39 Autocross	Sacramento Amphitheatre
May 2, 2026	Autocross #2	Thunderhill
May 3, 2026	Zone 7 AX, Redwood	Thunderhill
June 13, 2026	Autocross #3	Thunderhill
July 18, 2026	Autocross #4	Thunderhill
August 8, 2026	Autocross #5	Thunderhill
September 19, 2026	Autocross #6	Thunderhill
October 17,2026	Autocross #7 Zone Event	Thunderhill
October 18,2026	Redwood Zone 7 Event	Thunderhill