It was an extended eight months, however the Stadium Tremendous Vehicles are lastly again for 2024. For the third yr in a row, the Acura Grand Prix of Lengthy Seashore will open the season because the California road circuit continues its run as the one monitor left from the inaugural season in 2013.
Matt Brabham enters because the defending winner after sweeping each occasions in 2023. After spending that yr primarily competing in Indy NXT and Trans-Am alongside SST, Brabham is now an IMSA driver.
Myles Cheek hopes to avenge his heartbreak when Brabham handed him for the lead and win in Race #2 with two laps remaining. Settling for second, he nonetheless earned his maiden profession podium after ending seventh within the first race as he was getting used to the truck; the weekend was his first in SST since 2017.
Earlier than they concentrate on the NORRA Mexican 1000 the week after, Robby and Max Gordon will deal with Lengthy Seashore. Robby is tied with Brabham for essentially the most wins at Lengthy Seashore with 5, and the daddy/son duo swept the 2022 weekend that included a 1–2 end in Race #1.
Invoice Hynes, the longest energetic driver apart from the elder Gordon, returns for his tenth full-time marketing campaign. After ending tenth within the first Lengthy Seashore race in 2023, he was taken out of the second after getting turned by Robert Stout; Stout, a collection common since 2021, just isn’t entered as he prepares for the upcoming Championship Off-Street season.
Just like the Gordons, Trey Hernquist will run his third profession SST weekend earlier than heading out to Mexico for NORRA. He completed eighth and seventh as a collection newcomer on the 2023 Lengthy Seashore weekend, then repeated the sevenths in each Nashville occasions.
Ben Maier makes his Lengthy Seashore début and can attempt to bounce again after getting spun in his newest begin in Nashville. Outdoors of SST, he spent 2023 and the beginning of 2024 competing in Nitrocross’ SxS class and Trans-Am Sequence, recording a greatest end of eighth within the latter’s TA2 season opener at Sebring. After not having sufficient sponsorship to run final yr’s Lengthy Seashore occasion, he now has backing from HeroMFG.co and Energy Plus.
Zoey Edenholm returns for a fifth season, ending eleventh and seventh at her final Lengthy Seashore motion in 2022. Her truck shall be sponsored by donors to her GoFundMe fundraiser to fund the journey, which produced USD$7,155 (€6,701.52) from fifty-three donations.
RJ Stidham is the lone driver within the subject with out prior SST expertise, arriving in Lengthy Seashore because the twice reigning Southern Nevada Off Street Fanatics (SNORE) Class 6100 champion. He’ll signify Two Gunz Racing, whose proprietor David Bernstein ran each rounds in 2023 with a greatest end of ninth in Lengthy Seashore Race #2.
Stout, Ryan Beat, Bruce Binnquist, Joshua Thomas, and champion Gavin Harlien are usually not entered after racing the 2023 version.
Apply and qualifying will happen at on Friday, 19 April at 12:15 PM Pacific Time. Race #1 begins Sunday at 4 PM whereas Race #2 is on Sunday at 3:30 PM following the NTT IndyCar Sequence race.
