2024 ARCA Menards Series West
The 2024 ARCA Menards Series West was the 71st season of the ARCA Menards Series West, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season began on March 8 at Phoenix Raceway with the General Tire 150 and ended with the Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100, also at Phoenix Raceway, on November 8.
Sean Hingorani entered the season as the defending ARCA West champion. At the conclusion of the season finale at Phoenix, Hingorani of Venturini Motorsports became the back to back ARCA West champion.
Teams and drivers
Note: If a driver is listed as their own crew chief for a particular race, that means that their entry in that race was a start and park.Schedule
The full schedule was announced on December 6, 2023. Some race dates were announced before then as part of the announcement of the main ARCA Series schedule on November 28.Notes:
- The race at Phoenix in March is a combination race with the ARCA Menards Series.
- Race names and title sponsors are subject to change. Not all title sponsors/names of races have been announced for 2024. For the races where a 2024 name and title sponsor has yet to be announced, the title sponsors/names of those races in 2023 are listed.
Schedule changes
- The race at Evergreen Speedway was removed from the schedule and replaced by a race at Tri-City Raceway. Both tracks are located in the state of Washington. Tri-City Raceway was last on the West Series schedule in 2003.
- The race at Madera Speedway moves from October to September.
- The race at All-American Speedway moves from September to October.
- The race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring was removed from the schedule and replaced by a second race at the newly-renamed Kevin Harvick's Kern Raceway.
- The race at Madera Speedway moves from September 21 to 28
- The first race at Irwindale was originally supposed to be held on March 30, but was postponed to July 6 due to impending bad weather. And the doubleheader races at Irwindale ended being the last two ARCA West Series races on the venue, since Irwindale Speedway closed the doors at the end of 2024.
Results and standings
Drivers' championship
Notes:- The pole winner also receives one bonus point, similar to the previous ARCA points system used until 2019 and unlike NASCAR.
- Additionally, after groups of five races of the season, drivers that compete in all five races receive fifty additional points. These points bonuses will be given after the races at Irwindale and Roseville.
- * Tyler Reif, Sean Hingorani, Trevor Huddleston, Jack Wood, Kyle Keller, Eric Johnson Jr., Takuma Koga, Nick Joanides, Todd Souza, Robbie Kennealy, David Smith, and Bobby Hillis Jr. received this points bonus for having competed in the first five races of the season. Hingorani, Reif, Huddleston, Wood, Keller, Johnson, Koga, and Smith received this points bonus for having competed in the next five races. Hingorani, Reif, Huddleston, Wood, Keller, Johnson, Koga, Smith, Souza, Kole Raz, Eric Nascimento, and Rip Michels all received this points bonus after competing in the final two races of the year.