The 2024 Legend Car Dirt Nationals at BAPS Motor Speedway (PA) concluded on Saturday, October 12, with some wild racing action. Nationals feature winners were Ryan Zima (Young Lions), Colton Friese (Semi-Pro), Alex McCollum (Pro), and Devin Friese (Masters).
With the points season completed, this event technically crowned champions. However, due to INEX making sure tracks have all their results submitted for calculations, they were not ready to officially name champions. Still, speculation of who won the season points champions went through the pits, including one that was decided in post-race tech.
In the Young Lions division, Ty Olson had a virtual lock on the championship. However, after crossing the line fourth in the feature, Olson was disqualified in post-race tech. INEX told LN it was due to an unapproved part. The team told LN a washer was found on the panhard bar. With the DQ, Brady Ascherien, who finished fourth in the feature, is the unofficial Young Lions season champion.
The battle for the title in the Semi-Pro division took a few wild turns. Kody Machart entered the points in fourth with a shot at the title, but ended up having issues and did not finish the feature. Noah Madler and Quade Schoonover were first and second in points, having a fierce battle on track, which resulted in the two making contact, sending them both to the rear of the field. Meanwhile, up front, Colton Friese took the checkered flag first, and with Madler and Shoonover finishing outside the top 14, Friese is unofficially the Semi-Pro season champion.
The battle for the Pro division title was one of the more watched battles as both Preston Martin and Jackson Lewis were tied with max points heading into the Nationals feature. While Lewis had a somewhat uneventful race, eventually finishing third, Martin had a myriad of issues, including being involved in incidents that kept sending him to the back of the field, and one time, contact put him in the wall. Lewis is the unofficial Pro champion.
Donavin Wiest entered the Masters division Nationals feature in the National points lead, and pretty well just needed a decent finish to stay on top of the points chart. Glenn Mitchell, who was second in points, did finish in fourth, ahead of Wiest, however, Wiest finished sixth, and with only two positions separating them, Wiest is the unofficial national points champion.
LN will post the official champions at a later date once INEX certifies the final points.
Results from the 2024 Legend Car Dirt Nationals are below. Thank you to our event sponsors (click here for the event page) …
Young Lions Legends
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 4-Ryan Zima[3]; 2. 5-Tyler Rampmeyer[7]; 3. 88-Cohen Henze[4]; 4. 7A-Brady Ascherien[6]; 5. 19-Eli Geidel[10]; 6. (DNF) 9G-Grady McGrew[8]; 7. (DNF) 55-Colton Brock[9]; 8. (DNF) 14T-Talyn Neuman[2]; 9. (DNF) 7H-Hunter McElroy[5]; 10. (DQ) 7T-Ty Olson[1]
Semi-Pro Legends
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 7-Colton Friese[1]; 2. 51-Sierra Davenport[9]; 3. 5J-Logan Jones[5]; 4. 59S-Hayden Schmuhl[20]; 5. 700-Gage Madler[18]; 6. 01-Chance Gilbert[11]; 7. 44-Dalton Friese[7]; 8. 96-Cale Riggs[4]; 9. 6-Richie Dobson Jr[12]; 10. 7W-William Wetzl[19]; 11. 27G-RJ Garay[13]; 12. 21-Kelby Friese[10]; 13. 24R-Brian Rampmeyer[15]; 14. 126-Dustin Wiles[8]; 15. 800-Noah Madler[6]; 16. 75M-Ben Morrow[16]; 17. 18-Quade Schoonover[2]; 18. 25N-Chris Nicoll[17]; 19. (DNF) 7K-Kody Machart[3]; 20. (DNF) 04-Adam Meyer[14]
Pro Legends
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 0-Alex McCollum[1]; 2. 24J-Tanner Jones[2]; 3. 7-Jackson Lewis[4]; 4. 8W-Michael Weber[3]; 5. 44J-Jordan Miklas[11]; 6. 27-Logan Carbaugh[7]; 7. 21-Steven Partin[5]; 8. 471-Austin Wiest[8]; 9. 14Z-Zach Martinez[17]; 10. 75-Chase Singletary[6]; 11. 8-Jacob Owens[14]; 12. 4-Thomas Everson[15]; 13. 53-Bill Diehl[16]; 14. 77-Preston Martin[9]; 15. (DNF) 64-Griffin McGrath[13]; 16. (DNF) 99-Dauntae Martin[10]; 17. (DNF) 29-Ryan Braseth[12]
Masters Legends
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 12-Devin Friese[2]; 2. 10-Jeremy Ott[3]; 3. 22K-Michael King[1]; 4. 1OZ-Glenn Mitchell[8]; 5. 14G-Robert Stough[5]; 6. 19-Donavin Wiest[9]; 7. 19J-Jeff Schmidt[4]; 8. 79R-Scott Richardson[14]; 9. 5S-Scott Houdeshell[6]; 10. 11R-Scott Musselman[18]; 11. 01-Dusty Riggs[11]; 12. 3-Scott Montgomery[12]; 13. 9-Rick Hartwig[10]; 14. 90-Scott Spidle[13]; 15. 01X-Mike Gilbert[16]; 16. 11-Doug Fawley[20]; 17. 69-David Braxton[23]; 18. (DNF) 64J-Ezekiel Hanger[19]; 19. (DNF) 53-Keith Meyer[17]; 20. (DNF) 26-Shaun Abney[7]; 21. (DNF) 00-Eugene Drew[22]; 22. (DNF) 33-Kirk Martin[15]; 23. (DNF) 77-Michael McKinley[21]
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