Look. The kid from Willow Park, Texas had already won the ARCA Menards Series race at Watkins Glen International on Friday afternoon. He had already won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race in overtime on the same Friday afternoon. He had already become the second human being in history to win an ARCA race and a Truck race in one day. Sam Mayer at Bristol in 2020 was the first.
And he was supposed to be tired.
Saturday night at Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, North Carolina — a four-tenths-mile asphalt oval — Kaden Honeycutt climbed into a No. 54 Pro Late Model owned by JC Motorsports, sat on the pole, and won the 100-lap CARS Pro Late Model Tour feature.
Then he changed cars. Climbed into a No. 17 Late Model Stock owned by Tom Usry Racing. Started the Accelerated Graphics 250 behind polesitter London McKenzie. And with 75 laps remaining, took the lead from McKenzie and never gave it back.
Two wins. One night. Two different chassis. Two different teams.
That's never been done in CARS Tour history.
Four wins. Two days. Four disciplines. Four different cars. Four different teams.
That's the line.
ARCA Menards Series at Watkins Glen, Friday afternoon, in Bruce Cook's program. NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Watkins Glen, also Friday, in the No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota that Corey Heim drove to Victory Lane at the same track last year — a chassis Honeycutt inherited when Heim moved up to a partial Cup schedule. CARS Pro Late Model Tour at Ace, Saturday night, in the JC Motorsports No. 54. CARS Late Model Stock Tour at Ace, over an hour later, in Tom Usry Racing's No. 17.
Twenty-two years old. Willow Park, Texas. The 2024 CARS Pro Late Model Tour champion, currently leading the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship by 29 points over Chandler Smith — and now first in a record book that didn't exist before this weekend.
The CARS Tour has been running for over a decade. Plenty of drivers have entered both divisions on the same weekend. Nobody had ever swept it.
Honeycutt did it on a Saturday night with a four-tenths-mile asphalt oval under the lights, the second sweep of the same weekend, after flying back from upstate New York the day before.
Career CARS Tour wins now: TWELVE. Five Late Model Stock. Seven Pro Late Model. He owns the 2024 PLM Tour championship trophy already. Saturday was his second Ace LMSC win — the first came in 2022 with Nelson Motorsports — and his first Ace PLM win. Three Ace trophies total. Three different teams.
(He's still 22.)
Treyten Lapcevich was the obstacle. In both features.
Lapcevich is chasing two CARS Tour championships in 2026 simultaneously — the Late Model Stock title in Chad Bryant Racing's No. 77L and the Pro Late Model title in Rette Jones Racing's No. 30. Saturday at Ace he ran P3 in the PLM and P2 in the LMSC. Second twice, to the same guy, on the same night.
He raced as hard as he's ever raced. He still went home without a trophy. And he wasn't shy about the praise.
"I don't think I've ever driven harder in my life honestly," Lapcevich said. "So close. We were kind of trading lap times there at the end, but man, they had a great race car and Kaden did a great job. It's one that got away."
That's about as close as Honeycutt's perfect weekend came to being a P2 weekend. One driver. Two attempts. Two near-misses.
Behind Lapcevich in the LMSC was Caden Kvapil in the JR Motorsports No. 88 — the 2026 LMSC points leader entering the weekend, and still the points leader leaving it.
Kvapil finished third. Didn't have his best car. Couldn't catch Honeycutt or Lapcevich. But he beat Landen Lewis — the 2025 LMSC champion — across the finish line, and that's what mattered.
There was ten thousand dollars riding on it.
The Flodium program — new for 2026, backed by FloSports — splits each CARS Tour season into three-race segments and pays $10,000 to the driver with the best segment-ending finish. Kvapil already won the Nashville Flodium back in April. Ace was the second segment-ender. He's now won both.
"When I was racing , I remembered the Flodium money was on the line," Kvapil said. "I care if I third, fourth or whatever, I just to finish in front of him."
Drove for the bonus. Got the bonus. Kept the points lead. JR Motorsports drove away with another reason to like this season.
The PLM runner-up was Jake Johnson. From Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Modified driver by trade — won the famous 2024 Monadnock race in "Ole Blue," won the 2020 Snowflake 100 at Five Flags Speedway from the THIRTY-FIRST starting position.
This was Johnson's second career CARS PLM Tour start. He qualified eighth on the 24-car grid, ran clean, kept the tires under it, and finished less than a second behind Honeycutt at the checkered flag. His career PLM Tour resume: a P9 from P20 at North Wilkesboro last year, and a P2 from P8 at Ace this year.
"I guess it's just the Modified in me to keep the tires under it and let it rip ," Johnson said. "We couldn't keep up with , so congrats to him, he did a great job."
Pay attention to Johnson. Two starts, two top-tens, methodical race craft. The PLM Tour doesn't run again until July 17 at North Wilkesboro — but when he shows up, he gets there.
About that beer.
Kaden Honeycutt made a promise to himself, before any of this happened, that when he finally won his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race, he would shotgun a beer with the fans in the grandstands.
At Watkins Glen on Friday, the road course's logistics meant he could only shotgun the beer on the frontstretch. Promise kept on a technicality.
At Ace on Saturday night, no logistics in the way. He celebrated with the fans and finished what he'd started in upstate New York the day before.
"I'm so wore out," Honeycutt said in Cook Out Victory Lane after the LMSC win. "Thank you to Kenneth Packer and my whole R&S team. I can't believe it. I've tried so many times to pull off the double and we effin did it. Holy crap, what a race."
He's tried so many times to pull off the double. What he did this weekend wasn't a double. It was a quadruple — in two days, across four disciplines, in four different cars.
The CARS Tour has been waiting a long time for somebody to sweep one of its weekends.
LMSC Tour off to Langley Speedway on May 30. PLM Tour off until North Wilkesboro on July 17 — when the Cup Series returns to that track for points for the first time since 1996.
By the time we see Kaden Honeycutt in a Late Model again, somebody might have already started writing the songs.