Johnny Reed Foley comes in the winner of the 2024 Regular Season Championship! Only five points ahead of Ken Pettit, he will have to stay dominant over the next ten races to secure the title. Teammate Timothy McDonnell and Ryan Heuser narrowly made the top-10 in hopes of dethroning the #3 AC-Delco Chevrolet. With $10,000,000 on the line, the focus may lie purely on the Southern 500 victory!

Race Results

Points Standings

Race Recap

Ryan Heuser earns his first pole since Nashville in June! The #138 Quick-Silver entry would lead the initial 19 laps while Ben Geer and Zakk Miller battled maniacally for the second position. #29 Twinkie-Man would take the top-spot on lap 20, pulling the #30 Bepis Mustang to a three-second advantage over the field by the 50th circuit. Heuser, Alan Nesfeder, and rookie Jeremy Hebel round-out the top-5 positions.

Ben Geer and Zakk Miller swapped the lead on several occasions before green flag pit stops, relinquishing their advantage over the field. Towards the back, usual Darlington contenders Timothy McDonnell and Scott Jackson struggled to stay within the top-30, with Dan Johnston suffering an engine issue. A devastating blow, with the #121 team finishing second in last year's Southern 500.

The #30 Bepis Mustang came in for tires two laps before Geer, coming out with the outright advantage and pulling away from the pack. He would lead the lap-100 mark, with Dan Johnston crossing the line after a hard-impact to the inside wall. Bink Lucas tapped him off of turn-4, sending Dan head-first into the inside barrier. The Allstate #121 would finish dead-last on the night. Former teammate and last year's Southern 500 winner Craig Lee narrowly escaped the crash, continuing on unhurdled in 14th place.

A missed lug-nut on the #30 saw Ben Geer re-take the lead on the restart! Miracle-man Tony Long looked to cash in after nearly losing his job, going from 30th to the lead after the one-third distance to solidify himself as an Extravaganza Series mainstay. The terrible-towel's roared into the air like mustard-stained emlbems, surrendering their misgivings over Long's recent misfortune. A hard-charge from Jeremy Hebel couldn't intimidate the Budweiser-Man, but a NOS Energy swipe on the inside-line was indefensible. Ryan Heuser was back up front.

Tony Long and the #15 Budweiser Shake N'Bake Racing team led a whopping eight laps during the stint, doubleing their total on the season. Their performance would pay off with an eventual 9th place finish, second best to Texas earlier in the year. Johnny Reed Foley also found his way past the #15 looking to lead his 14th-straight event in 2024. He would do so on lap 139, taking the lead outright and pulling to a gargantuan 15-second advantage after a record-breaking fuel-stop and 90 laps of dominant CFM horsepower! Tony Long and John Battista were the only two that could stay within a half-lap of the points leader. Scott Jackson and Tony Pizzaro would go a lap down, while title-contenders Timothy McDonnell and John Tharp fought to keep their lead-lap status. Deep behind them, the race for the fourth position was frantic between Jeremy Hebel, Ben Geer, Logan Sheets, Matt Raboin, Alex Crapser, Rick Jackson, Zakk Miller and Zach Michael.

Ryan Heuser endured a blown right-rear tire, losing a lap by the next caution. He would tap the rear of Matt Raboin entering turn-3! The #87 Valvoline Viper smacked the outside wall hard, capapulting into Zach Michael's right-front fender. A devastating blow for both cars with little attrition, as both were unable to continue. The #20 Team Danger Zone entry would finish 44th, breaking the record for most 44th places in an Extravaganza Season with three. They would drop to 184-points behind Foley, but only six behind Rick Jackson who suffered an engine failure after running over debris from the crash.

With Michael and Jackson out, and Heuser trapped a lap down, seven title-contenders remained in contention for the victory. Johnny Reed Foley and John Battista raced side-by-side for three laps before the Wendy's machine took the advantage on lap-244. By lap-300, Battista was eight-seconds ahead en-route for his second straight victory! Fortunately for the rest of the field, a debris caution took away his advantage with 63 laps-to-go. Everyone can make it on gas from here.

John Battista hits the wall! The cold tires felt like bricks, with Ken Pettit diving to the inside with lapped-traffic below! He and Foley flew past, with the top-2 in points miraculously battling for the victory with Battista now mired behind the lapped-traffic. Pettit could only hold Foley off for one lap before the inevitable. The #3 Chevrolet flew away from Pettit and the rest of the pack. This time, there would be no caution. John Battista and Logan Sheets were the only two cars able to keep up, but to no avail. Johnny Reed Foley would cross the line in first for his league-leading sixth victory of 2024!

A masterpiece of a performance. Foley's 14th-straight race led was his mightiest of them all! The crew didn't fail him. The wall didn't impale him! Engine smoke didn't inhale him. The AC-Delco Chevrolet Camaro sailed him into the winners circle and atop the points once more in 2024. They're ready for the west-coast swing in the sixth-annual Eddie Money Classic! Congrats to Foley, crew chief Ronnie "Pure Love" Pressley and the entrie CFM Motorsports organization for an excellent victory!

2024 Southern 500 Video