In 2024 Grand Poobah Emeritus Fred Allerton totaled up the number of points amassed by racers placing in the first three places in every race. That resulted in the awarding of the first “The Last Word” trophy for the highest number of accumulated points for the season at the 2024 Nationals. That led to discussions with Al Barnes, a then new racer come to us from the go-kart racing world. The whole original concept was to encourage members to attend more races. Al proposed to automate the process using computer spreadsheets and including the points of all contestants, something he had done in the kart world. They brought the idea to the Executive Committee which authorized the idea in principle. The resulting championship regime was announced in an email to CCWBRA members on July 26th 2025. You can find the 2025 results with all racers and all races below.
See Complete 2025 Championship Races and Racers Detail
Regional Championships:
Late Classic: Tom Kerr led Al Barnes by a mere 4 points out of 76 with both racing in all 4 Regional races.
Late Classic Women: Tara Carew with 24 points led Julie Bynum and Idarae Prothero with one point separating each. They raced in one race.
Post ’79 Mixed: The ubiquitous Tom Kerr beat Lou Linden by 5 points out of 79 after winning all four races while Linden took 2 seconds and 2 thirds.
Post ’79 Women: Tara Carew took gold ahead of Idarae Prothero 47 to 24 in two races.
Tohatsu Mixed: Al Barnes relegated Lou Linden to second place by 6 points out of 89 in all four races.
Tohatsu Women: Idarae Prothero tied with Tara Carew at 72 points and will be co-champions.
8 HP Mixed: Peter Urbani placed ahead of Rob Selin 46-42 points amassed in the only two 8 HP races of the season.
National Championships:
Early Classic Mixed: Al Barnes showed Tom Kerr his transom by 1 point in the only National race with three racers or more.
Late Classic Mixed: Tom Kerr won by 1 point over Chris Norman and Cam Walker who tied. Norman and Kerr both had 1st place finishes but Kerr’s was in a race that had five competitors and Norman’s race only had four.
Post ’79 Mixed: Tom Kerr won by a single point over Jack Sanderson, each placing first but Kerr’s race having more entrants. More racers=more points. No racer in this class entered more than one of the three races.
Tohatsu Mixed: Lou Linden is the champ because he went to twice as many races as the other entrants, taking a first and third for 48 points while Art Gilbert was second with 25.
Tohatsu Women: Idarae Prothero attended two races, picked up a second and a fifth to win the National trophy 21 points ahead of Lisa Merilson who finished first at The Governor’s Cup.
8 HP Mixed: Only two of the three races had the requisite three entrants. Cam Walker and Chris Norman each won a race, but Walker’s had more competitors which gave him the Championship by a single point.
The moral of this story is that everybody benefits when more racers show up for more races. The more, the merrier as they say.