As a race fan, this final day for the CARS Tour has just about everything you can want and more. If you’re looking for a historic race track as the setting for the finale, you got it in North Wilkesboro Speedway. If you’re looking for two rivals to battle each other for the championship, you got it in Connor Hall and Brenden “Butterbean” Queen. And if you’re looking for close, dramatic points battles, you got it as both the Late Model Stock Car and Pro Late Model championship battles are separated by single-digits.

The CARS Tour season is down to just two races, with two drivers vying for the right to call themselves a champion. It’s the showdown everyone has been hoping for with Hampton, Virginia’s Connor Hall battling Chesapeake, Virginia’s Brenden “Butterbean” Queen, with just one point separating these two bitter rivals heading into Saturday’s showdown at Tri-County Speedway.

JR Motorsports announced today that Virginia native Connor Hall will be the new driver behind the wheel of the No. 88 Chevrolet for the organization’s championship-winning Late Model program. Additionally, as announced last week by JRM, Bass Pro Shops will be back on board as the primary partner for 20 Late Model events in 2025.

The path to the title may have been different this year versus last, but at the end the results were the same, as Langley Speedway-based Connor Hall captured his second consecutive NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series championship.

More than 20 drivers took part in a zMAX Cars Tour open test at the historic North Wilkesboro Speedway on Saturday in anticipation of next month’s rescheduled Reverend 100 Pro Late Model and Window World 125 Late Model Stock Car races. The zMAX Cars Tour doubleheader, which was postponed due to weather during the NASCAR All-Star Weekend in May, will bring together many of the best grassroots racers in the country for a one-night showcase of speed on Saturday, Aug. 3.

Nobody thought that last year’s crazy race at Dominion Raceway would ever be topped in the excitement category, but the CARS Tour did it again on Saturday night at Langley Speedway. Connor Hall barely beat Brent Crews and Carson Kvapil to the checkered flag in a three-wide photo finish that will be talked about for years to come.

Three-wide. Seven one-thousandths of a second. That’s how Connor Hall scored his first CARS Tour win of 2024 as he barely edged Brent Crews and defending champion Carson Kvapil at the checkered flag. It was a finish so thrilling that many in the NASCAR world and beyond were talking about it too.

Ask just about any driver who has won NASCAR’s weekly series national championship, and they all tell you the same thing. They never start the season expecting to race for a national title. The national title race finds them. For many, they realize they have a shot at it early in the year, but for some it takes a little bit longer.

When the CARS Tour goes to Langley Speedway, all eyes on the local kids of Connor Hall and Brenden Queen. Wouldn't you know it that those two finished first and second on Saturday night? Connor Hall took the lead with less than 20 laps to go from Kaden Honeycutt and held off Queen to score his first CARS Tour victory at his home race track and his first win of the 2023 CARS Tour season.