Nothing lasts forever but the success just keeps coming for Kaden Honeycutt. Tonight was only the second time someone has swept both the CARS Tour Pro Late Model and Late Model Stock races in the same night. It was Kaden Honeycutt both times.
Luke Baldwin led the early portions of the Pro Late Model race until a restart on Lap 45 when he missed a shift, giving the lead to Kaden Honeycutt and once the No. 54 was in the wind, there was no looking back.
Always humble, Kaden deflects any personal praise, giving it all to the amazing teams he works with but as we know there is a common denominator and Honeycutt explains a theory as to why he is so good.
“I’ve had a couple of the stock holders and short track guys who are like, I am kind of hard to work with,” Honeycutt said “It’s just for how dedicated and how much I wanna win. I give the best feedback and the best knowledge I can give them. When I came to Alex (with JC Motorsports) with the Pro Late Model deal, I haven’t told him anything of what to do other than I think we should venture off to a different motor package with Cam Clark. It’s worked the past couple of weeks.
“I definitely don’t show up to run third, fourth or fifth that’s why I am kind of a hard butt to work with and when we have results to work with it makes it all worth it. I’m 23 but I definitely don’t claim to know the answer to everything I just try to give them the best possible advice I can give them to be couple spots better and we’ve done that this year.
Luke Baldwin came up one spot short of riding the lift in the season finale last year and tonight he seemed poised to redeem himself but a mistake on the restart cost him. Baldwin faded to fourth at the end of it but knows what could’ve been.
“I missed a shift on one restart and lost the lead,” said Baldwin “That’s what really killed us. Just a mistake on me and got in dirty air and got even tighter and hurt the right front too much to run with those guys the rest of the race.”
T.J. DeCaire finishes a strong second but feels as though he gave away an opportunity to challenge Honeycutt.
“With a race car as good as this, passing was easy,” said DeCaire “I’ve had great cars in the past here but nothing like this. I feel like every restart was going to be beneficial until it wasn’t. I got ran up in the third groove and everything that could have happened, happened but at the end of the day it’s racing. It all falls back on me to take a race winning race car and win and that’s not what I did.
CARS Tour Pro Late Model
North Wilkesboro
July 17, 2026
1) #54 Kaden Honeycutt
2) #7 T.J. DeCaire
3) #44 Conner Jones
4) #47 Luke Baldwin
5) #6 Mason Walters
6) #3 Kasey Kleyn
7) #62 Keelan Harvick
8) #31 Brody Monahan
9) #15 Case James
10) #33 Albert Francis
11) #6L Brandon Lopez
12) #51 Carson Ware
13) #55 Gio Ruggiero
14) #9 Chase Elliott
15) #11 Jack Baldwin
16) #97 Dylan Garner
17) #50 Seth Christensen
18) #30 Treyten Lapcevich
19) #17 Mini Tyrrell
20) #95 London McKenzie
21) #17H Hudson Halder
22) #25 Rodney Dowless Jr.
23) #28 TJ Duke
24) #18S Mike Scorzelli
25) #13 Brandan Marhefka
26) #78 Corey Heim
27) #11C Dylan Cappello
28) #5 James Seeright
29) #90 Joe Maruca
30) #20 Evan McKnight
