Vermeer Motorsports Crew Chief Tye Wolfgang expressed his frustration with High Limit Racing officiating after Brady Bacon was not pushed back onto the track ahead of the B-Main at Kokomo Speedway on Sunday night.

Bacon set fast time in qualifying, and was running third in the first heat race. However, he spun and finished in the eighth and final position sending him to a B-Main.

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On the opening lap of the B-Main, Bacon started from the pole, but heading down the back stretch he seemingly lost power and slowed to draw a caution and eventually came to a stop on the front stretch. He was then pushed into the work area, but did not return to the track to compete in the B-Main ending his and Vermeer Motorsports’ night given they no longer had any provisionals.

High Limit Racing announcer Chase Raudman shared, “Bacon trapped in the ARP work area is going to pray for a yellow here.” That yellow never came.

Wolfgang spoke with Connor Ferguson of Always Race day and expressed his frustration with the series not pushing Bacon back on to the track after they made repairs to the vehicle.

He explained, “Obviously, we were in a spot we shouldn’t have been in. We went quick time, made a mistake on the race track that Brady admits and stuff happens. I’m not mad at him for making a mistake. We discussed what happened and talked about the fact that we probably didn’t need to be pushing right there ’cause we just needed to run fifth. It wiped the drive line, the rear end, and everything out of this thing.”

The team then worked alongside Joel Myers Jr.’s team to get the car back in tip top shape. However, while doing so they made a mistake. Wolfgang explained, “Just had a mistake get made on the reassembly and the car come out of gear. We just come to the work area and didn’t even need any tools. I just reached down, locked the shifter back in on the rear.”

 After the repair was made to get the car ready to go back out for the B-Main, Wolfgang believed the series would push them back out. That did not happen.

“Kenny, the High Limit tech official keyed the radio, said we were good to push,” Wolfgang relayed. “Cody, who was in the side-by-side heard him. He confirmed that he heard him. They never pushed us. I voiced my displeasure with Kenny that they hadn’t pushed us. He tried again. And I don’t know if he was told lights out or what, but they never pushed us. The race went green. Obviously, ended our night.”

Wolfgang then shared how he had a discussion with Series Director Mike Hess, “I went to the High Limit trailer and one of the officials in there, she confirmed that she heard it over the radio. So that’s three people heard it. I went up to Mike in the tower, which I probably should have just waited ’til afterwards to let it all calm down, but heat of the moment. I asked him and he basically said nothing he could do. Lights are out. Call can’t be reversed.”

“It’s a really tough deal,” Wolfgang added. “We put ourselves in a position we shouldn’t have been in. We were fast. Brady’s doing a really good job having speed in the car for our first two, three weeks together. We just made a mistake. And I felt like if that was a chartered team, that’s a different call, but that’s probably a conversation for a different time. Maybe not. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m reading too much into it. But I definitely feel like when you got three officials that see it one way—. We all make mistakes. If a mistake was made in the tower, like it’s all good, just swallow that mistake and say, ‘Hey, we’re good. Let’s push.'”

“I don’t know what the right call to fix it is. I don’t know if in that situation being that we don’t get back out ’cause of them if they let us tag the tail of the A or what that—. I don’t know what the right call is. I don’t have that answer. I just definitely feel like what happened tonight wasn’t right. Probably the best thing to do is when we’re ready to push and Kenny’s on the radio yelling is to just throw the lights back on, idle round one more lap, we’ll fire off, tag the tail. Obviously, extremely frustrated right now.”

With the team out of provisionals and not able to make the show, Wolfgang shared some big picture thoughts about what the team might do next year.

“We’re quick time and just now we’re sitting here watching these guys race, just falling further back in points. I’m sure we’re going to have a lot of decisions to make at the end of the year. Obviously, we didn’t execute very well through the summer. We had four or five months that put us in a critical point spot anyways. This definitely sways the decision for next year, I’m sure. We have to sit down and look at some things ’cause I felt like that one was pretty blatant.”

“I’ve had some calls that I wasn’t happy with earlier in the year,” he continued. “Sat down, talked with Mike about it, had really good discussions. One of them was here. He gave great explanations. Regardless of what happened tonight, Mike Hess is the best Race Director in the business I live and die on that hill. … Tonight, no, he wasn’t. It made a really bad call as a series tonight.”

Tanner Holmes went on to win the race and expanded Buch Motorsports’ gap over Vermeer Motorsports for the 8th position. Buch now has a 101 point advantage with just four races left in the season. That 8th position is critical because if Vermeer can do it this year and in 2027, they will secure a coveted membership in the High Roller Club. That membership guarantees teams fixed payments throughout the season based on their average points finish over the past two seasons. In 2026, the highest fixed annual payment it $425,000 while the lowest is $150,000. Those values will increase through 2029.

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