Listen. The kid in the No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota had already won the ARCA Menards General Tire 100 at Watkins Glen on Friday afternoon, in a No. 17 Cook Racing Technologies entry. Then he climbed into a different Toyota — the same TRICON No. 11 that Corey Heim drove to Victory Lane at this same track a year ago — and won the Truck race in overtime over Connor Zilisch.
Twice. In one afternoon. In two different series.
Look at the names who have ever done this before — won an ARCA Menards Series race AND a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race on the same day:
Sam Mayer. Bristol. 2020.
That's the list. That's the whole list. Honeycutt is the SECOND human being to pull this off, and he did it on a 2.45-mile road course in upstate New York while shotgunning a beer beneath the flag stand.
And here's the thing — the Truck race itself wasn't supposed to be his.
Brent Crews put the No. 1 TRICON Toyota on the pole — his first career Truck Series pole — and led the first 17 laps from the start. Daniel Hemric won Stage 1. Connor Zilisch led 28 laps and won Stage 2. Honeycutt? Honeycutt got himself penalized at the end of Stage 2 for entering pit road after it had already closed, and restarted the final 32-lap stage from the rear of the field.
That's how he led only the last two laps of the entire race.
A series of late cautions and restart violations — Ross Chastain jumped one and got sent to the back, then crashed out for good in Turn 5 — cleared the way. Gio Ruggiero, who was actually leading on Lap 69, drew his own restart violation and surrendered the spot. That penalty put Honeycutt on the front row alongside Zilisch for the overtime restart.
Zilisch picked the outside lane.
Honeycutt got to Zilisch's right rear through Turn 1 on the first lap of overtime, gave him a tap, and that was the ballgame. Two laps later he had the checkered flag by 0.902 seconds and his first win in 67 career Truck Series starts.
"It's just amazing," Honeycutt said. "I can't believe I just won on a road course. It's just unbelievable."
A week ago at Texas, Honeycutt had publicly chastised himself for repeated failures to win in this series. He came into Watkins Glen leading the championship anyway. He just wanted the trophy that goes with the points lead.
Now he has both.
The 22-year-old from Willow Park, Texas, had already done the hard part of the day — the ARCA win — before he even strapped into the Truck. By the time he was three-wide into Turn 1 with Zilisch on the right and the field stacked up behind, he'd already had the best afternoon of his life. The bump on Zilisch's right rear was just dessert.
For Zilisch, this is nine NTS starts now without a win. He led the most laps Friday (28), won a stage, and got passed in the last set of corners that mattered.
"It was just an unfortunate way to end that race," Zilisch said. "I chose the top, hoping we could get through there without making contact. I knew that the bottom would be better if that happened, but I didn't want to be that guy. Yeah, I just wish I could go back and re-do it and pick the inside, but we've got two more races this weekend."
He runs the OARS race today (4 PM, The CW) going for his third straight at this track. He runs the Cup race tomorrow (3 PM, FS1) for Trackhouse. Same regret, two more swings.
Two more things worth your attention from Friday.
First — TRICON Garage now has a small monopoly going at Watkins Glen. Heim won the Truck race here last year in the No. 11. Honeycutt won it this year in the No. 11. Same chassis number, same team, two consecutive years. (Honeycutt INHERITED the No. 11 from Heim when Heim moved to a partial Cup schedule — and inherited a winning car at one specific track in the bargain.)
Second — AJ Allmendinger finished P6 in the No. 25 Ram. That's the Ram Free Agent Driver Program car that has rotated a different driver into the seat almost every weekend this season — Tony Stewart at Daytona, Ty Dillon at Atlanta and Rockingham, Corey LaJoie at Darlington, Carson Ferguson at Bristol, Parker Kligerman at Texas. Allmendinger at WG was the program's strongest road-course matchup yet, and he delivered the program's best road-course finish to date. Travis Pastrana drives the No. 25 next, on May 22 at Charlotte.
A year ago this race was called the same thing — the Bully Hill Vineyards 176 — and that name has its own lineage. Ron Fellows, Friday's Truck Grand Marshal, won the 1999 edition (then called the Bully Hill Vineyards 150) in a Bully Hill Vineyards-sponsored truck owned by Joe Nemechek, Friday's Honorary Starter. The same Finger Lakes vineyard's name has now produced two different drivers' first NTS wins at The Glen, twenty-seven years apart.
Honeycutt is the 128th different driver to win in the Truck Series, the first first-time winner of the 2026 season, and the second driver ever to win an ARCA race and a Truck race on the same afternoon.
The points lead is his by 29 over Smith, 43 over Riggs, 55 over Ruggiero, 71 over Eckes.
Sam Mayer's been alone in there for six years, folks. Now there are two of them.