Street Mod Champion Allen Patten Obliterates Records, Competitors, in 4-Event Sweep

2024 STREET MOD CLASS CHAMPION: ALLEN PATTEN

Allen Patten claimed his 2024 championship with wins at Carolina Motorsports Park, GingerMan Raceway, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, and Lime Rock Park, earning track records at all of them.

Chicago, IL - GRIDLIFE’s Street Modified class in the NOS Energy TrackBattle Championship usually features stiff competition at the front of the field, but Allen Patten and his #606 Toyota GR Supra left no path to the championship for anyone else after August’s Circuit Legends event. Patten only entered four events, the minimum required to complete a full points season, but snagged wins at four of GRIDLIFE’s most competitive events, and put cherries on top of each win with track records at all of them.

At Carolina Motorsports Park in April, Allen Patten defeated fellow GR Supra driver Kyle McKiou and the #14 Mercedes AMG GTS of Kal Fortner. Patten’s next appearance was in June, at GRIDLIFE Midwest Festival. While Patten was gearing up for the second large festival of the season, Zhenyang Huang and Michael Aumick picked up class wins at Willow Springs and The Rev-Up at GingerMan Raceway, respectively. 

While several NOS Energy TrackBattle classes strugged with track conditions during a rainy Podium Sprint at GRIDLIFE Midwest Festival, the surface dried in time for Patten to eek out a win over Kal Fortner and Brian van Orsdol. Patten also managed a track record in qualifying, adding another point for 26 total, as he did at Carolina Motorsports Park. When the Street Modified field took on a repaved Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the battle featured a class regular in the form of Eric “Dewey” DeWitt, who was fighting transmission problems in his #70 Subaru Impreza. Despite the issues,  Dewey managed 2nd place ahead of Ryan Mathews in the #121 Chevrolet Corvette, but was unable to lap quicker than Patten, who again broke the Street Mod rear-wheel drive record and added a third win to his season.

While Patten was absent at Summer Apex at Road America, Kyle McKiou snagged a win over Kal Fortner and DeWitt, but Patten found himself on top again at Circuit Legends in August. Lime Rock Park’s podium featured Peter Liu in third in another Toyota GR Supra, his only event for the season. Liu followed McKiou and Patten, with the winning driver collecting his fourth bonus point for a track record.

Because the NOS Energy TrackBattle Championship’s tiebreakers first consist of head-to-head victories, the championship runner-up, Kyle McKiou, had no path to victory after Circuit Legends. To win the title, he would need to win and collect records at every remaining event, and have an extra bonus point for a track record from an event he had already completed. This meant that with three rounds remaining, Allen Patten had already locked up the championship with the minimum number of events - and he didn’t exactly choose the easy ones. As far as Time Attack goes, this championship season was decimation for the driver of the #606 Toyota GR Supra.