
It wasn’t that long after winning the NASCAR Canada Series championship that Cayden Lapcevich said that his younger brother Treyten was coming right up behind him and that ‘he is a better race car driver than I am.’
The championship was 2016 and this conversation probably took place around 2018 prior to a Canadian Short Track Nationals at Jukasa.
Since then, Cayden has completed his mechanical engineering degree from the University of Northwestern Ohio, completed a stint at HAMKE Race Cars and is now an ARCA Racing Series crew chief at Venturini Motorsports.
Maybe he was right about his younger brother, who claimed his own NASCAR Canada championship in 2023 and then moved to the States where he won twice driving Late Model Stocks for Chad Bryant Racing in the CARS Tour race at North Wilkesboro and the South Carolina 400 with his brothers and father often in tow.

But Cayden still has one boast over his brother.
“I don’t think he’s ever beaten me.”
Okay, that’s bold but is it true?
“I don’t know but we ran a series of Pro Late Model races together at Sauble one year, like a six race mini series and I swear I beat him in one of those,” Treyten said. “I know one thing — I put it on the pole every night. I was young, like 13 or 14 so race craft wasn’t amazing and we were breaking in a newer car for a team I had never worked with but he won about every night and won the championship.”
Another race he remembers is the inaugural Canadian Short Track Nationals in 2018 where Cayden finished 11th and Treyten finished 12th.
“I had no power steering,” Treyten said. “He leaned on me in the last corner and he was going to make sure he got by me on the final lap.”
For what it’s worth, Treyten did finish ahead of Cayden in that race the next year but the 2016 champion pointed out that he didn’t finish the race.
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Maybe Sunday will be more definitive, the brothers looking to join the Allisons (Bobby and Doonie and the Plotts (Kyle and Kason) as siblings to compete in the Super Bowl of Super Late Model racing at Five Flags Speedway.
Cayden is racing for Shawn and Taylor Holdaway while Treyten is racing the family car he raced last year with his brother serving as crew chief.
“The original plan,” as Cayden tell it, “is I was going to bring my own car down. But we got so busy with the ARCA stuff and I had been running this car at Delaware as a Pro and it blew up so I had about run out of money. So I reached out to Taylor and we worked out a deal because he wants to be here just as bad as I do.
“I probably don’t have any business being here as a driver, not racing as much as I used to, but I like the challenge. The story of my life has been if you commit to something hard enough, it’s achievable.”
He’s being modest and he is still a champion that bested the likes of LP Dumoulin, Marc-Antoine Camirand, Alex Tagliani and Kevin Lacroix on a regular basis in his championship season.
“It is like riding a bike,” Cayden said. “When we did our test, dad was with me and after a few laps he was like, ‘yeah, you still got it,’ and the consistency got back to where it needed to by the end of the day. The Dartfish has been helpful and I’m still relearning this place and I won’t stop working on it.
“I’ve done a lot of homework and hopefully it pays off.”
Treyten is just excited to race with and against his brother.
“It’s really cool,” Treyten said. “To do it here especially, since it’s such an important race. But this is where I first came down to race a Pro Late Model in the states and I did it with my dad and brothers and so to come back here again reminds me of how far we’ve all come.
“I think we both love the atmosphere of this race and we both just want to have really good runs.”
Next year, Cayden has several engineering and crew chief options and is going to continue racing his way up the ladder that way while Treyten is expected to compete part-time in the Truck Series. And maybe, while their schedule allows, they will continue to be able to race against each other here and there too.
Matt Weaver is the owner and founder of Short Track Scene. Weaver grew up in the sport, having raced himself before becoming a reporter in college at the University of South Alabama. He also has extensive experience covering NASCAR, IndyCar and Dirt Sprint Cars.

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Mike
December 5, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Great story. Enjoyed it
Andy Molenaar
December 6, 2024 at 7:58 am
Thanks for focusing on this very talented multi generational racing family from Canada. Lots of talent with this group. Started with watching their grandfather Joe back in the 70’s. Dad Jeff is very knowledgable and can set up and maintain a competitive race car. The boys have deep racing roots…..