# 2024 Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100

The 2024 Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100 was the 12th and final stock car race of the 2024 ARCA Menards Series West season, and the 52nd iteration of the event. The race was held on Friday, November 8, 2024, at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona, a 1-mile (1.6 km) permanent tri-oval shaped racetrack. The race took the scheduled 100 laps to complete. Connor Zilisch, driving for Pinnacle Racing Group, would put on a dominant performance, leading the most laps and earning his first career ARCA Menards Series West win in his first career West Series start. To fill out the podium, William Sawalich, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, and Sean Hingorani, driving for Venturini Motorsports, would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
Despite finishing in third, Sean Hingorani would claim the 2024 ARCA Menards Series West championship. This was Hingorani's second championship, winning it the year before and the second championship for Venturini Motorsports in the West Series.

## Report
### Background

Phoenix Raceway – also known as PIR – is a one-mile, low-banked tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona. It is named after the nearby metropolitan area of Phoenix. The motorsport track opened in 1964 and currently hosts two NASCAR race weekends annually. PIR has also hosted the IndyCar Series, CART, USAC and the Rolex Sports Car Series. The raceway is currently owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation.
The raceway was originally constructed with a 2.5 mi (4.0 km) road course that ran both inside and outside of the main tri-oval. In 1991 the track was reconfigured with the current 1.51 mi (2.43 km) interior layout. PIR has an estimated grandstand seating capacity of around 67,000. Lights were installed around the track in 2004 following the addition of a second annual NASCAR race weekend.
Phoenix Raceway is home to two annual NASCAR race weekends, one of 13 facilities on the NASCAR schedule to host more than one race weekend a year. The track is both the first and last stop in the western United States, as well as the fourth and the last track on the schedule.

### Entry list

* (R) denotes rookie driver.
| # | Driver | Team | Make | Sponsor |
| 0 | Tony Huffman | Fierce Creature Racing | Chevrolet | First Impression Press |
| 2 | Sebastian Arias | Rev Racing | Chevrolet | Brady Plus |
| 3 | Todd Souza | Central Coast Racing | Toyota | Central Coast Cabinets |
| 4 | Eric Nascimento | Nascimento Motorsports | Chevrolet | Impact Transportation / RJs Paintshop |
| 05 | Joey Iest | Shockwave Motorsports | Toyota | Shockwave Marine Suspension Seating |
| 6 | Lavar Scott | Rev Racing | Chevrolet | Max Siegel Inc. |
| 7 | Takuma Koga | Jerry Pitts Racing | Toyota | Takt Diesien / CKB |
| 9 | Kyle Keller | Jan's Towing Racing | Ford | Jan's Towing |
| 13 | Tyler Reif | Central Coast Racing | Toyota | Central Coast Cabinets |
| 15 | Sean Hingorani | Venturini Motorsports | Toyota | Fidelity Capital |
| 16 | Jack Wood | Bill McAnally Racing | Chevrolet | NAPA Auto Care |
| 18 | William Sawalich | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | Starkey / SoundGear |
| 19 | Eric Johnson Jr. (R) | Bill McAnally Racing | Chevrolet | Pacific Office Automation |
| 20 | Gio Ruggiero | Venturini Motorsports | Toyota | JBL |
| 21 | Alex Malycke | Nascimento Motorsports | Toyota | Impact Transportation / Phillips Bros Fab |
| 22 | Brent Crews | Venturini Motorsports | Toyota | Mobil 1 |
| 23 | Kaden Honeycutt | Sigma Performance Services | Toyota | SPS / GMS Fabrication |
| 25 | Marco Andretti | Venturini Motorsports | Toyota | Rich Mar Florist |
| 27 | Bobby Hillis Jr. | Fierce Creature Racing | Chevrolet | Camping World / First Impression Press |
| 28 | Connor Zilisch | Pinnacle Racing Group | Chevrolet | Pristine Auction |
| 50 | Trevor Huddleston | High Point Racing | Ford | High Point Racing / Racecar Factory |
| 55 | Jake Finch | Venturini Motorsports | Toyota | Phoenix Construction |
| 71 | Rip Michels | Jan's Towing Racing | Ford | Jan's Towing |
| 72 | Jonathan Reaume | Reaume Brothers Racing | Ford | Mountain Top Media-RBR Engineering |
| 76 | Kole Raz | AM Racing | Ford | Cyclum Renewables Truck Stops |
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