Danny Dietrich and Tanner Holmes both called for a change to High Limit Racing’s restart rules following the scary wreck involving Aaron Reutzel, Joel Myers Jr., Kerry Madsen, Chris Martin, and others at Lakeside Speedway.

On a lap 23 single file restart, Aaron Reutzel, who was running in sixth, darted to the outside lane and tried to drive around Tanner Holmes, who restarted in fourth. However, Holmes moved up the track just as Reutzel had gotten to his outside. The two made contact and it sent Reutzel’s car spinning like a helicopter. As he got airborne, Joel Myers Jr. had nowhere to go and drove underneath him resulting in a huge impact. That sent Myers’ car tumbling down the front stretch and into the entry of the corner. He then got slammed into by Chris Martin. That impact sent Myers into another set of flips and rolls while Martin also went rolling up the top of the track. Myers ended up upside down after the impact from Martin.

While all that was happening, Reutzel got tagged again by Kerry Madsen in the 17GP sending him into another couple of flips and barrel rolls. As his car was coming to a stop from the Madsen impact, he also got clipped by Rico Abreu. 

The wreck also involved Justin Henderson, Kerry Madsen, Rico Abreu, Ryan Timms, Brent Marks, and Justin Peck.

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The High Limit Racing rulebook currently states, “On single-file restarts, there will be no restart cone on the frontstretch. Competitors may not pass before the restart cone in turn 4. If a car passes before the restart cone or is not in a proper nose-to-tail alignment and/or is guilty of an excessive gap between cars, then that car will be penalized. When this infraction occurs, High Limit Officials may exercise their discretion and 1) call for an immediate restart and penalize the offending car(s) two positions prior to the subsequent restart or 2) not call for another restart and allow the race to continue and then penalize the offending car(s) two positions under the next yellow, red or checkered flag. If there are multiple violations by the same car(s), the respective car(s) may be disqualified from that respective race.”

However, it appears that rule was amended sometime this year as High Limit Racing Director Mike Hess shared that in every single High Limit Racing Driver’s Meeting that the drivers are instructed, “Single file nose to tail until the leader fires. When the leader fires you can go anywhere just can’t pass until the turn 4 cone.”

@Kenny_Wallace @HighLimitRacing “Single file nose to tail until the leader fires. When the leader fires you can go anywhere just can’t pass until the turn 4 cone” is the said at every drivers meetings and most restarts on drivers radio. There are a lot of people that don’t know the procedures.

— Mike Hess (@MHess51) October 11, 2026

Dietrich and Holmes called for a change to the rule during the most recent episode of DIRTVision’s Pit Bull. Dietrich said, “If the double file restart don’t work, which obviously the double file restarts kinda slow you down, single file restarts like this they need to have a cone on the front stretch so you can’t pass, you can’t be in this situation down the front stretch.”

“When you’re that far behind and you can build a run down the front stretch and potentially take out what seemed to be eight cars there, I just think it needs to have a cone on the front stretch and single file down the front stretch,” Dietrich concluded.

As for Holmes, he concurred with Dietrich, “Like Danny said, I think the front stretch cone or something. I think maybe there is a way probably. Just analyze it as a whole just to make it simpler. … Probably just need to simplify it like he said. … Obviously, we can’t prevent everything, but maybe there is a better way to get us back going than that.”

Dietrich then elaborated on why he believes a cone is necessary, “When you’re double file you’re not going that fast down the front stretch where these single file restarts you are and that’s why I say you need to have a cone because the speeds of a restart are pretty much in race mode at that point in time. With no cone, there’s too much chance of something like this happening, for sure.”

“You put a cone on the front stretch at the flag stand with a rope that goes into the infield and everybody’s got to go to the outside of it single file. There’s no passing,” he added. “And you can’t pass before it. You wouldn’t have this issue. You really wouldn’t. You wouldn’t be able to get that big of a run, everybody would be nose-to-tail, Aaron would’ve still been two cars behind Tanner. Yeah, it’d be better altogether, in my opinion.”

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