Winning the Snowball Derby once is the dream of every short-track racer in America. It puts your name next to giants. Kaden Honeycutt lived that dream in 2024, beating Ty Majeski and Stephen Nasse to park the Tom Dawson Trophy in his shop. But the Snowball Derby doesn’t hand out free passes for past glory. Only a handful of drivers in fifty-seven years have ever won it more than once.

In the last ten years, that list is exactly two names: Ty Majeski and Chase Elliott. Even Kyle Busch, Erik Jones, and Noah Gragson needed several tries just to win it once. So when Kaden Honeycutt rolled into Five Flags this week as the defending champ, everybody wanted to know: Can lightning strike twice?

Honeycutt knows the mountain he’s climbing

Kaden Honeycutt didn’t sugarcoat it when the microphone

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