Danny Dietrich shared his thoughts on how hard lap cars should race the leader following some hard racing at Eldora Speedway during the Kings Royal.

Following the Kings Royal, Kalib Henry issued an apology to then leader Garet Williamson on how hard he raced him while he was getting lapped. He wrote, “I just want to apologize to Garet Williamson for racing him so hard as the leader. Not like Me and not how I’d want to be raced. Honest mistake on my end.”

I just want to apologize to @GaretWilliamson for racing him so hard as the leader. Not like me and not how I’d want to be raced. Honest mistake on my end

— Kalib Henry (@KalibHenryRcn) July 19, 2026

While Henry apologized, he was not the only one who raced him hard, Aaron Reutzel did as well even sliding him just after the halfway point. Williamson commented on the hard racing in a post-race interview. He said, “In lap traffic, kind of got raced back hard by a few cars, which, I don’t know, it sucks, but kind of can’t expect much else out of the 87. It’s pretty typical for him. That sucks, but, you know, we’re still going to learn a lot from this.”

Dietrich weighed in on it and the topic in general in the most recent episode of Pit Bull on DirtVision, “I think it’s just tough. you’re going to go a lap down and you don’t necessarily want to, obviously. It’s not different than on Wednesday night at Eldora. I was complete junk and I’m getting lapped, but maybe it did look like I was racing Corey Day, but I was trying to leave him a lane the whole time. I’m not pulling a slide job on him. I’m going to go to the bottom or I’m going to commit and run the top. If he messes up then I get beside him or get in front of him then that’s one thing, but there’s always going to be a lane.

“I’m not going to shut the leader down, make him intentionally drop his nose, and stuff like that,” he continued. “There’s like a fine line. There’s a fine balance between trying to keep your pace up just in case  something does happen and then also being respectful at the same time.”

“There’s a lot of us that aren’t used to it. I can’t imagine Aaron Reutzel is used to being lapped. It probably doesn’t happen very often,” Dietrich observed. “We don’t tend to get lapped very often. There’s a lot of guys that don’t get lapped. Look at David Gravel. So there’s just a balance there. Like I said, some of us aren’t used to it and it kinda catches you off guard and you just got to recognize the situation.”

Should lapped traffic fight to stay on the lead lap, even if it means battling the race leader? 👀

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