McCelvey finds a winning combination

Despite a short season of rapid development, Daniel McCelvey claimed the 2016 SCCA Solo C Street championship in a 2016 MX-5.

Daniel McCelvey of Houston, Texas, won the 2016 SCCA national championship in SCCA Solo's tough C Street class, driving a 2016 Miata Club in its first year of competition. The veteran autocrosser earned his first C Street championship in 2013, then finished third driving an RX-8 in 2014. He took a break in 2015, but not for long.

"I was working on the announce team at the SCCA Solo Nationals as a pit reporter for C Street," McCelvey says. "I was there in the grid with all those guys, watching the battles between Chris Fenter and Chris Harvey in the Miatas driving against Dave Ogburn in the Scion FR-S. I thought the level of competition is so great, and the camaraderie was so great. Then they made the announcement that the ND [MX-5] was going to be classed in C Street. I'd had my eye on that car for a while and I knew it would be competitive. So I discussed it with my wife; she wanted the convertible to drive during the week, and I could have it on the weekend as a racecar."