The ARCA 4 Crown Championship, which essentially serves as a championship race within a championship race, will return for the 2024 season as CGS Imaging has extended its entitlement sponsorship of the program with the ARCA Menards Series.
“We’ve had a long and productive relationship with ARCA and the ARCA Menards Series,” Chuck Stranc, president and CEO of CGS Imaging, said in an ARCA press release. “It has allowed us to create other business in the motorsports sector, locally, regionally, and nationally. Our relationship with ARCA has allowed us to open doors that might not have opened otherwise.”
This season, the four races that will make up the CGS Imaging 4 Crown will be Talladega Superspeedway on April 20, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park on July 19, DuQuoin State Fairgrounds on September 1, and Watkins Glen International on September 13.
The wide array of tracks makes this a very interesting battle as a driver will have to be good at four different types of race tracks (superspeedway, short track, dirt track, and road course) in order to walk away with the CGS Imaging 4 Crown Championship.
Andres Perez took home the CGS 4 Crown Championship last season in his rookie campaign with Rev Racing. Perez took the title with finishes of fourth at Talladega, fifth at Elko Speedway, 15th at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, and second on the dirt at the Illinois State Fairgrounds.
The lineage of the CGS Imaging 4 Crown Championship can be traced back to the 1984 ARCA season. That year, Now-NASCAR Hall of Famer Davey Allison took home the 4 Crown Championship. What makes the partnership with CGS so special for the ARCA Menards Series is the true love that CGS has for auto racing.
“Our relationship with Chuck and Carol Stranc and CGS Imaging has been great for the series,” said ARCA president Ron Drager. “The quality of the products they deliver to us on a regular basis is unmatched. Part of what makes this partnership so fruitful is they are race fans, and they truly enjoy helping not just us as the sanctioning body but the other sponsors and the race teams with some of the most unique branding projects in the American sports landscape.”
Who will join the presitigous list of CGS 4 Crown Champions this season? We’ll find out in September.
