Kaden Honeycutt needed 66 races in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series to reach the finish line first, and he did it this Friday in the Bully Hill Vineyards 176 by beating Connor Zilisch by 0.902 seconds in Turn 1 of overtime. The current championship leader had won the ARCA race earlier in the day on the same 2.45-mile circuit, and is only the second driver to win in both series on the same day, something Sam Mayer achieved at Bristol in 2020.

The race accelerated toward its conclusion with two nearly identical penalties. Ross Chastain was leading with eight laps to go in the scheduled distance and jumped the restart zone; NASCAR penalized him immediately. "What? You can't have a penalty when you're the control car," he protested over the radio, but the camera confirmed the infraction. Sent to the back, Chastain got caught in a crash in Turn 5 and finished 28th.

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Five laps later, Gio Ruggiero repeated the move and the penalty. "The guy behind me pushed me just before the zone. Do you want me to brake and cause a disaster?" he argued. The penalty cost him the lead he had on lap 69 and left him without a chance to fight for the win.

The two penalties are explained by a change NASCAR applied this year at The Glen. The restart zone was moved closer to the entrance of the last corner. Two marks remained on the asphalt: a painted white line indicating the official start and a worn black timing line, just a few meters earlier. Several drivers identified the wrong reference and accelerated early. On Saturday morning, the series removed rows of tires from that area to clear the view.

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Honeycutt arrived at The Glen carrying the frustration from Texas, where he lost the lead on lap 149 and criticized himself for not knowing how to close out races. On Friday he started seventh and received a penalty at the end of the second stage for entering pit road when it was closed, forcing him to come from the back in the final 32 laps. The multiple interruptions and others' penalties gave him the opportunity he needed.

With Chastain and Ruggiero out of the equation at the finish, overtime paired Honeycutt with Zilisch on the front row. Zilisch chose the outside lane hoping to avoid contact in the first corner, but he missed a shift coming out of Turn 7, and Honeycutt brushed his right door on the inside to get his truck ahead. From there, he managed the final two laps. "As soon as I took the lead, I lifted my visor and focused completely," he said. Zilisch, who had led 28 of the 74 laps, lamented: "I wish I could do it over and choose the inside."

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Shane van Gisbergen finished third by passing several drivers in the string of restarts near the end. Daniel Hemric was fourth and Chandler Smith fifth. Honeycutt leaves The Glen with a 29-point lead over Smith in the championship.

Ram placed three trucks in the top 10 for the first time in 2026. AJ Allmendinger finished sixth, Mini Tyrrell eighth, and Brenden Queen ninth. Kaulig Racing, the team responsible for the brand's return to NASCAR, had not placed more than one vehicle in that group on a single date. Tyrrell, who entered the series through a contest, improved his previous best result by eleven positions. Queen earned his third top 10 of the year. Carson Hocevar, winner at Texas last week, was running in the top ten until contact with Allmendinger on lap 62 sent him into the inside wall on the front straight. "I'm sure AJ didn't expect me to lift," he joked.