2023 CARS Tour

Carson Kvapil, the 2023 Late Model Stock Tour champion.

The 2024 CARS Tour was the 27th season of the Solid Rock Carriers CARS Tour, a stock car racing series. It began at Southern National Motorsports Park on March 2 and ended at North Wilkesboro Speedway on October 19. Carson Kvapil won the Late Model Stock Tour championship for the second straight year, while younger brother Caden Kvapil won the Pro Late Model Tour championship.[1][2][3]

Carson Kvapil entered the season as the defending Late Model Stock Tour champion, while Luke Fenhaus entered as the Pro Late Model Tour champion.[4] Fenhaus did race in the series in 2023 after making the move to run full-time in the ARCA Menards Series East.[5]

This was the first season under the acquisition of DEJ Management, Jeff Burton Autosports, Inc., Kevin Harvick Incorporated, and Trackhouse Racing.[6][7]

Schedule & results

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Date Track Location LMSC Winner PLM Winner
March 11 Southern National Motorsports Park Kenly, North Carolina Deac McCaskill Mike Hopkins
March 25 Florence Motor Speedway Timmonsville, South Carolina Carson Kvapil N/A
April 22 Hickory Motor Speedway Hickory, North Carolina Carson Kvapil Mike Hopkins
May 5 Ace Speedway Altamahaw, North Carolina Carson Kvapil Connor Zilisch
May 17 North Wilkesboro Speedway North Wilkesboro, North Carolina Brenden Queen Augie Grill
May 27 Tri-County Speedway Granite Falls, North Carolina N/A Carson Kvapil
June 3 Langley Speedway Hampton, Virginia Connor Hall N/A
June 10 Dillon Motor Speedway Dillon, South Carolina N/A Tristan McKee
June 17 Dominion Raceway Thornburg, Virginia Bobby McCarty N/A
June 28 Caraway Speedway Asheboro, North Carolina Jared Fryar Caden Kvapil
July 8 Wake County Speedway Raleigh, North Carolina N/A Logan Jones
July 29 Hickory Motor Speedway Hickory, North Carolina Mason Diaz Cole Butcher
August 11 Ace Speedway Altamahaw, North Carolina Carson Kvapil N/A
August 19 Tri-County Speedway Granite Falls, North Carolina Kaden Honeycutt Caden Kvapil
August 26 Wake County Speedway Raleigh, North Carolina Carson Kvapil N/A
September 9 New River All-American Speedway Jacksonville, North Carolina Brenden Queen N/A
October 7 South Boston Speedway South Boston, Virginia Deac McCaskill Nick Loden
October 21 Tri-County Speedway Granite Falls, North Carolina Brenden Queen Caden Kvapil
November 4 Caraway Speedway Sophia, North Carolina Brenden Queen Kaden Honeycutt

Standings

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Late Model Stock Car championship

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(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.

Pos Driver SNM FLC HCY ACE NWS LGY DOM CRW HCY ACE TCM WCS AAS SBS TCM CRW Points
1 Carson Kvapil 2 1 1* 1** 8 4 4 3 4 1 2 1* 5 5 4 11 495
2 Brenden Queen 7 2 10 4 1* 2 2* 6 3 5* 16* 4 1 4 1** 1** 490
3 Mason Diaz 8 32 6 7 13 22 7 2 1 2 7 2 4 13 2 23 381
4 Bobby McCarty 10 7 30 5 28 6 1 5 5 24 4 7 12 3 6 2 375
5 Ryan Millington 5* 27 11 2 2 16 14 15 14 3 5 8 9 7 7 19 367
6 Chad McCumbee 11 11 4 11 7 7 8 26 9 12 27 5 7 10 8 9 357
7 Ronnie Bassett Jr. 16 3 26 19 14 18 25 25 6 6 3 3 3 11 23 5 322
8 Jacob Heafner 6 5 7 27 30 9 12 14 7 7 14 16 10 20 9 17 317
9 Landon Huffman 20 18 21 21 13 12 17 8 1 6 16 6 3 3 299
10 Brandon Pierce 14 16 14 10 18 11 11 17 8 23 12 12 11 19 27 8 297
11 Kaden Honeycutt 3 3 8 5 3* 26 4 26 4 18 6 6 287
12 Connor Hall 4 13 2 3 4 1 5 13 18 25 18 13 281
13 Mini Tyrrell 22 6 25 14 32 12 3 9 19 15 8 11 13 29 16 25 272
14 Deac McCaskill 1 17 5 13 35 15 11 21 20 8 1** 4 256
15 Chase Burrow 9 25 17 26 33 8 20 22 12 19 15 13 14 8 19 20 253
16 Andrew Grady 13 22 16 DNQ 37 14 18 10 22 10 17 18 15 16 24 16 235
17 Cameron Bolin 18 28 23 DNQ 20 17 8 20 18 10 17 19 18 22 21 205
18 Dylon Wilson 23 18 18 DNQ 26 24 21 28 21 13 14 17 22 21 18 180
19 Conner Jones 4 12 15 17 10 19 2 17 169
20 Layne Riggs 27 9 6 5 DSQ* 10 9 2 166
21 Jared Fryar 12 12 3 1 6 4 161
22 Connor Zilisch 8 12 36 9 16 16 11 15 146
23 Logan Clark 15 19 23 16 22 18 15 26 22 123
24 Zack Miracle 20 14 22 16 9 13 24 113
25 Carson Brown 25 15 24 21 22 25 16 20 96
26 Kade Brown 31 2* 20 12 12 93
27 Trevor Ward DNQ 28 23 9 9 12 85
28 William Sawalich 9 6 31 18 17 84
29 Lanie Buice 19 29 11 14 7 83
30 Bryant Barnhill 10 DNQ 23 27 19 19 28 25 81
31 Landon Pembelton 15 21 DNQ 24 34 6 24 78
32 Dylan Ward 20 29 22 24 13 14 75
33 Josh Dickens 27 20 DNQ DNQ 29 14 11 65
34 Tate Fogleman 17 23 DNQ DNQ 23 24 20 61
35 Cody Kelley 9 13 46
36 Austin McDaniel 21 11 34
37 Jason Kitzmiller 26 31 25 21 29
38 Stephen Nasse 5 28
39 Blake Stallings 14 25 27
40 Clay Jones 9 27
41 Ryan Glenski 8 DNQ 27
42 Jonathan Fedley 21 22 31 26
43 Kyle Larson 7 26
44 Ryan Gentry 28 27 23 25
45 Brent Crews 24 17 25
46 Gio Ruggiero 21 20 25
47 Cale Gale 19 24 DNQ 24
48 Dexter Canipe Jr. 17 25 24
49 Chase Briscoe 10 23
50 Heath Causey 10 23
51 Mason Bailey 10 23
52 Ryan Matthews 10 23
53 Kevin Harvick 11 22
54 Charlie Watson 15 29 21
55 D. J. Canipe 15 30 21
56 Brad Keselowski 12 21
57 Jonathan Shafer 13 20
58 Justin Carroll 13 20
59 Buddy Isles Jr. 15 18
60 Coy Beard 15 18
61 Daniel Suárez 15 18
62 Blake Lothian 24 26 DNQ 17
63 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 16 17
64 Ryan Wilson 29 30 DNQ 25 32 16
65 Isabella Robusto 30 29 21 16
66 Terry Carroll 17 16
67 Colby Howard 19 14
68 Ethan Johnson 19 14
69 Ross Chastain 19 14
70 Chris Burns 20 13
71 Matt Waltz 20 13
72 Kenny Wallace 21 12
73 Garrett Smithley 22 11
74 Cole Bruce 23 10
75 Mile Looney 23 10
76 Ronald Hill 23 10
77 Matt Gould 24 9
78 Tyler Ankrum 24 9
79 Jeremy Mayfield 30 28 8
80 Bryce Applegate 25 8
81 Daniel Webster 26 7
82 Jacob Borst 26 7
83 Ryley Music 26 7
84 Carter Langley 27 6
85 Jason York 27 6
86 Jody Measemer 28 5
87 Stacy Puryear 28 5
88 Timothy Peters 28 5
89 Ashton Higgins 32 2
90 Brian Obeidzenski 31 2
91 Jessica Cann 32 2
92 Thomas Scott DNQ 2
93 Tyler Gregory DNQ 1
94 Harrison Burton DNS 0
Pos Driver SNM FLC HCY ACE NWS LGY DOM CRW HCY ACE TCM WCS AAS SBS TCM CRW Points

Pro Late Model Tour championship

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(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.

Pos Driver SNM HCY ACE NWS TCM DIL CRW WCS HCY TCM SBS TCM CRW Points
1 Caden Kvapil 8 11 2* 8 3 12 1* 7* 2 1* 3 1 2* 391
2 Katie Hettinger 5 6 3 5 6 2 2 3 4 6 6 14* 335
3 Ashton Higgins 7 8 17 14 17 5* 9 10 14 5 7 12 13 293
4 Logan Jones 10 28 11 36 9 9 10 1 10 10 9 4 7 282
5 Austin MacDoanld 11 20 14 38 10 6 16 4 3 7 4 4 267
6 George Phillips 14 25 16 19 20 8 15 6 9 10 5 218
7 Joshua Horniman 18 14 24 29 11 13 8 17 14 13 9 12 212
8 Rusty Skewes 17 16 15 30 18 DNQ 14 9 13 11 16 18 11 207
9 Tristan McKee 24 10 20 4 7 1 8 DNS 16 16 195
10 Kyle Campbell 13 26 18 22 15 7 11 2 19 9 188
11 Connor Zilisch 3 1 3 6 6 157
12 Cole Butcher 4 4 1** 3 2* 157
13 Brett Suggs 9 13 7 34 12 13 12 12 156
14 Dawson Sutton 5 8 39 8 7 2 16 154
15 Nick Loden 12 21 19 37 7 13 1 15 152
16 Gavan Boschele 16 9 2 4 13 120
17 Mike Hopkins 1* 1 6 10 119
18 Brent Crews 2 5 6 5 114
19 Charlie Keeven 22 17 8 6 8 103
20 T. J. DeCaire 4 26 3 5 95
21 Lee Tissot 12 10 27 13 15 88
22 Gio Ruggiero 5 4 5 86
23 Luke Morey 3 15 21 28 19 79
24 Clint King 9 DNQ 10 8 74
25 Aiden King 12 8 6 72
26 Luke Baldwin 7 22 24 8 71
27 Kris Wright DNQ 15 11 11 63
28 Justin Crider 4 18 17 62
29 Zak Fowler 20 29 12 DNQ 16 57
30 Ryan Moore 5 7 53
31 Jeff Batten 22 24 23 11 52
32 Tyler Church 18 20 10 50
33 Justin Whitaker 19 23 13 33 47
34 Michael Lichtfeld 22 23 9 45
35 Isabella Robusto 6 19* 43
36 Augie Grill 1* 37
37 Carson Kvapil 1* 37
38 Bryan Kruczek 2 40 34
39 Kaden Honeycutt 1 34
40 Matt Craig 4 31 32
41 Corey Heim 2 32
42 Tate Fogleman 3 30
43 Chase Burda 2 30
44 Jimmy Renfrew Jr. 3 30
45 Brandon Setzer 3 29
46 Justin Hicks 5 28
47 Dylan Garner 21 18 27
48 Jeb Burton 7 26
49 Cory Casagrande DNQ 10 25
50 Trevor Sanborn 9 24
51 Dylan Cappello 11 22
52 William Sawalich 11 22
53 Jackson Boone 12 21
54 Carson Lucas DNQ 14 21
55 Levie Jones 12 21
56 John Bolen 13 20
57 Mamba Smith 14 19
58 Carter Langley 15 18
59 Hudson Canipe 27 21 18
60 Seth Christensen 15 18
61 Jeff Fultz 15 18
62 Bret Holmes 16 17
63 Jadyn Daniels 17 16
64 Carson Hocevar 17 16
65 Justice Calabro 17 16
66 Jordan Taylor 20 13
67 Tyler Gregory 21 12
68 Matt Caprara 21 12
69 Logan Boyett 23 10
70 Dustin Smith 25 8
71 Garrett Smithley 32 3
72 Josh Lowder 35 3
73 Nick Egan DNQ 2
74 Jarrett Butcher DNQ 2
75 Michael Hinde DNQ 2
76 Jordan Miller DNQ 2
77 Brandon Marhefka DNQ 2
78 Holt Halder DNQ 2
79 John Aramendia DNQ 2
80 Chris Phipps DNQ 2
Pos Driver SNM HCY ACE NWS TCM DIL CRW WCS HCY TCM SBS TCM CRW Points

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Carson Kvapil Wins Second Straight CARS Tour LMSC Championship". JR Motorsports. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  2. ^ "Kvapils earn CARS Tour championship as Butterbean wins finale". Short Track Scene. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  3. ^ "Kvapil brothers sweep CARS Tour titles, Brenden Queen, Kaden Honeycutt earn season-ending wins". CARS Tour. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  4. ^ "Fenhaus, Kvapil Claim CARS Tour Titles". Speed Sport. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  5. ^ Watson, Wyatt (March 3, 2023). "Luke Fenhaus Running Full ARCA East Schedule for PRG". Fronstretch. Retrieved March 5, 2023.
  6. ^ "CARS Tour Enters 2023 Season Under New Ownership Group". CARS Tour. Retrieved January 9, 2023.
  7. ^ "Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Burton, Kevin Harvick and Justin Marks purchase CARS Tour". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media. January 9, 2023. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  8. ^ "CARS Tour Announces Expanded 2023 Schedule". Racing America. Retrieved June 19, 2025.