The 2024 ARCA Menards Series platform season is over.
Andres Perez became the second-ever winless champion in ARCA history, giving Rev Racing two driver championships in three years. In the ARCA Menards Series East, William Sawalich won the season finale and points leader Connor Zilisch wrecked out. As a result, Sawalich snatched the title away from Zilisch. In the ARCA Menards Series West, Sean Hingorani successfully defended his series title.
Frontstretch graded drivers’ seasons after 2023. Now with ’24 in the history books, the ARCA team of Mark Kristl, Josh Calloni and Luke Wingard graded the top-five finishers in the main series as well as the top two from the East and West.
Andres Perez: A
After entering the season as one of the odds-on favorites, Perez pieced together an incredibly consistent campaign in 2024 to clinch the ARCA championship. Propelled by 17 top 10s, 10 top fives and an average finish of 6.5 across this season’s 20 races, Perez won the title by a relatively comfortable margin of 41 points over Rev teammate Lavar Scott.
Although it is hard to criticize any season that culminates in a series title, there is still one jewel missing from Perez’s ARCA crown: a race winner’s checkered flag. While it is an issue that seems to come up a lot with Perez, and it may seem to be a somewhat unfair criticism given the equipment disparity in ARCA, it is important that Perez exhibits the ability to get to victory lane.
Although Perez’s Rev No. 2 entry was always toward the front of the field, it never seemed to be at the very front of the field. With 21 laps led and three runner-up finishes on the season, it would appear on paper that Perez flirted with several wins, but this wasn’t the case. Although the potential to win races is there with Perez, it remained unrealized in a very successful 2024 season for the young Mexican driver. – Luke Wingard
Lavar Scott: A
In his rookie year, Rev’s Scott was one of the most consistent drivers on the ARCA circuit in 2024. While he did not find victory lane, he came close on quite a few occasions.
No race was closer than the Aug. 3 race at Elko Speedway, when Scott, Sawalich and Kris Wright wrecked across the line three-wide for the win. That night, Scott led 100 laps, nearly taking home the win.
Outside that race, Scott finished inside the top five nine times and scored top 10s in 15 of the 20 scheduled races. Included in that consistency was a…
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