{"id":51756,"date":"2025-08-07T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51756\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:01:11","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-reacts-to-niece-motorsports-parting-ways-with-kaden-honeycutt-ahead-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51756\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. reacts to Niece Motorsports parting ways with Kaden Honeycutt ahead of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dale Earnhardt Jr. had some interesting thoughts on the situation between Niece Motorsports and Kaden Honeycutt. On the Dale Jr. Download<\/a> podcast<\/a>, Earnhardt reacted to Niece releasing Honeycutt before the start of the NASCAR Truck Series playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHoneycutt is 73 points above the cut line for the playoffs,\u201d Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. \u201cI don\u2019t remember hearing anything like this before, where a guy got a new job or next year, so you fire him. I\u2019m sure it\u2019s happened, but it feels like this is something that maybe went down in the \u201970s or \u201980s. It\u2019s nothing that\u2019s happened recently.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, Niece Motorsports announced it has released Kaden Honeycutt, saying he had signed with a different team and manufacturer for the 2026 season. Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports reported that Honeycutt has likely signed with Tricon Garage\/Toyota<\/a> for next season. <\/p>\n

Earnhardt talked about Honeycutt potentially joining Tricon. \u201cI have zero problem with a driver getting a different deal and going somewhere else,\u201d Earnhardt stated. \u201cNow, you\u2019d like some loyalty, you\u2019d like some commitment. You\u2019ve given Kaden this chance, Niece has given him this chance to get into the Truck Series. Well, he used that opportunity, and he\u2019s going to go somewhere better and different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaden Honeycutt joins Halmar Friesen Racing for the remainder of the Truck Series season<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Halmar Friesen Racing announced that Honeycutt will substitute as the driver of the team\u2019s No. 52 Toyota for the final eight races of the Truck Series Season. He will replace Stewart Friesen, who is currently recovering from serious injuries suffered in a crash at a Super DIRTcar Series event in Canada on July 28. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be able to fill in for Stewart for the rest of the season and help give his team a chance at the owner\u2019s championship, which they earned,\u201d Honeycutt said, per NASCAR.com<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m excited to compete in contending, race-winning equipment as I pursue a title this season. We are going to work hard to have a solid final eight races of the season and continue to deliver great results for Stewart, his family and this organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

Honeycutt drove for Niece for the last two years, but began racing full-time for the team this season. The 22-year-old recorded nine top-10 finishes this year, with two of the finishes being in the top three. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. had some interesting thoughts on the situation between Niece Motorsports and Kaden Honeycutt. On the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,14056,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-51756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}