Winning a race is one thing, and winning a season-long points championship is another. But winning a Super Tour Nationwide Points Championship is next-level stuff.
The 27 drivers listed below showed commitment, traversing the country to compete in enough 2024 Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tours – and in some cases, the 2024 SCCA National Championship Runoffs® presented by Sunoco – to put them atop the point standings and earn them the title of Hoosier Super Tour Champion.
The 2024 Hoosier Super Tour consisted of 10 events spanning the country from Florida to Oregon, California to New York, and many states in between. The points tally included a driver’s six best Hoosier Super Tour races, plus their Runoffs finish. Winners earned 25 points per race win, with second place laying claim to 21 points, third earning 18 points, and so on through 20th place, who earned a solitary point.
Beyond the Numbers
While the Super Tour Nationwide Points Champions are listed below, what it doesn’t show is just how hard some of these drivers worked to earn top honors. For example, there were two Super Tour Nationwide Points Champions this year who won two classes, with both earning titles in famously well-contested classes.
Russell Turner won the Spec Racer® Ford Gen3 Super Tour title with just 12 points to spare over Bobby Sak, but that gap was a mile compared to the three-point margin Turner claimed the Formula Enterprises® 2 Super Tour title by over Caleb Shrader.
The other driver to go two-for-two this year was Danny Steyn. In Super Touring® Lite, Steyn was the class of the field, winning that Super Tour title with 150 points, compared to the 118 points second-place finisher Austin Hill racked up during the season. In Spec Miata, Steyn’s Super Tour title came down to a single point over Logan Stretch.
What makes this even more impressive for Steyn is that these wins back up the two Super Tour Nationwide Points Championships he’d earned in 2023. Plus, due to an accident during 2024 Runoffs qualifying, he didn’t earn a single Runoffs point in Spec Miata or Super Touring Lite.
In GT-Lite, Graham Fuller took the Super Tour title by just four points over Peter Shadowen, with Michael Lewis another four points back and Chris Bovis trailing Lewis by a scant two points. This win was significant in another way, too, as it also marked the sixth consecutive GT-Lite Super Tour Nationwide Points Championship for Fuller.
Hugh Stewart barely pulled out the Super Tour win in Touring 1 over Mark Boden, with the final points tally coming in at 162 to 161 in Stewart’s favor.
Finally, there’s Tyler Ladd (E Production) and Russell Turner (SRF3) who won Super Tour titles on their way to becoming this year’s two Super Sweep winners.
The Champions
Below is the list of 2024 Hoosier Super Tour Nationwide Points Championship winners with name, car make/model, and SCCA Region of record. Complete points results for all Hoosier Super Tour classes can be viewed here.
- American Sedan®: James Jost, Ford Mustang, Philadelphia Region
- B-Spec: Stewart Black, Mazda 2, North Carolina Region
- E Production: Tyler Ladd, BMW Z3, Wichita Region
- F Production: Mason Workman, Mazda Miata, Ohio Valley Region
- H Production: Steve Sargis, Triumph Spitfire, Blackhawk Valley Region
- Formula 600: Keith Joslyn, Scorpion S1, Western New York Region
- Formula Atlantic®: Paul Ravaris, Pro Formula Mazda, Texas Region
- Formula Continental®: Tim Minor, Citation US2000, Blue Ridge Region
- Formula Enterprises®2: Russell Turner, SCCA Enterprises 2 FE2 Mazda, Washington DC Region
- Formula F: Sebastian Mateo Naranjo, Mygale SJ14, Central Illinois Region
- Formula Vee®: Andrew Whitston, Protoform P2, Milwaukee Region
- Formula X: Brad Yake, Formula Mazda FM, Texas Region
- GT-1: Michael McAleenan, Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO, Northwest Region
- GT-2: Barry Boes, Ford Mustang, Lone Star Region
- GT-3: Michael Lewis, Mazda RX-7, San Diego Region
- GT-Lite: Graham Fuller, Toyota Tercel, Washington DC Region
- Spec Miata: Danny Steyn, Mazda Miata, Florida Region
- Spec MX-5: Justin Adakonis, Mazda MX-5, New England Region
- Spec Racer® Ford Gen3: Russell Turner, SCCA Enterprises SRF3, Washington DC Region
- Prototype 1: Todd Vanacore, Elan DP-02, Central Florida Region
- Prototype 2: Tim Day Jr., Stohr WF1, San Francisco Region
- Super Touring® Lite: Danny Steyn, Mazda MX-5, Florida Region
- Super Touring® Under: David Fiorelli, Ford Mustang, Texas Region
- Touring 1: Hugh Stewart, BMW E46 M3, New England Region
- Touring 2: John Heinricy, Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing, Detroit Region
- Touring 3: Richard Baldwin, Nissan 350Z Touring, Delta Region
- Touring 4: Marc Cefalo, Mazda RX-8, Northeastern Pennsylvania Region
Photos by Rick Corwine and Jeff Loewe
