SANTA MARIA, CA (August 20, 2026) — Aaron Reutzel kicked off the west coast swing with the Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing series Thursday night at Santa Maria Speedway in productive fashion by winning the feature event and taking over the series point lead.
Reutzel, from Clute, Texas, took the lead after a mid-race restart from
Tanner Holmes took the lead from the front row at the start of the 35-lap main event from Reutzel. It did not take long for Holmes to start overtaking slower cars, which set up a four car race for the lead between Holmes, Reutzel, James McFadden, and Gage Montgomery 10 laps into the main event.
One lap later the caution flag appeared for D.J. Netto, who slowed with a flat right rear tire. On the ensuing restart Corey Day went over Tyler Courtney’s wheel and flipped into turn one to bring out the red flag.
As the cars were slowing down, Montgomery got into the wall in turn three and damaged his car too much to continue Day was able to exit the car under his own power, but the car suffered too much damage to continue.
Rico Abreu got together cars while avoiding Day’s flip and had to go to the work area. Abreu’s team was able to make repairs in time to join the tail of the field of the restart.
Holmes continued to lead following the restart, but Reutzel quickly closed in as Holmes caught the back of the field. On lap 19 Reutzel was able to slide in front of Holmes to take the lead.
McFadden was able to dispose of Holmes one lap later after using a lap car as a pick down the backstretch.
McFadden was able to get a couple of looks under Reutzel for the lead but could not make the pass. From there Reutzel motored away for the victory over McFadden, Holmes, Tim Kaeding, and Brent Marks.
Reutzel’s victory combined with Abreu’s 17th place finish was enough to propel Reutzel to the top of the High Limit point standings by 30 markers.
The High Limit Racing west coast swing continues Friday night at Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare, California.
High Limit Racing
Santa Maria Speedway
Santa Maria, California
Thursday, August 21, 2026
Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying (2 Laps):
1. 19-Brent Marks, 11.369[26]
2. 87-Aaron Reutzel, 11.521[2]
3. 0-Tim Kaeding, 11.564[13]
4. 13-Tanner Holmes, 11.566[24]
5. 21-James McFadden, 11.601[17]
6. 3-Kaleb Montgomery, 11.640[22]
7. 42-Sye Lynch, 11.651[16]
8. 77-Giovanni Scelzi, 11.652[14]
9. 88-Tanner Thorson, 11.660[9]
10. 31-Jett Yantis, 11.675[8]
11. 7BC-Tyler Courtney, 11.731[15]
12. 21L-Landon Brooks, 11.740[23]
13. 88N-DJ Netto, 11.740[6]
14. 26-Justin Peck, 11.752[4]
15. 4-Kasey Kahne, 11.760[12]
16. 14-Corey Day, 11.775[18]
17. 17GP-Brock Zearfoss, 11.775[7]
18. 24-Rico Abreu, 11.780[27]
19. 10-Dominic Gorden, 11.826[3]
20. 26R-Levi Hillier, 11.849[25]
21. 9R-Chase Randall, 11.862[11]
22. 121-Caeden Steele, 11.899[20]
23. 55-Kerry Madsen, 11.900[5]
24. 2K-Jake Andreotti, 11.939[21]
25. 9-Daison Pursley, 12.038[19]
26. 5-Dominic Scelzi, 12.045[10]
27. 24D-Danny Sams III, 12.102[1]
TJ Forged Heat 1 (8 Laps):
1. 13-Tanner Holmes[1]
2. 42-Sye Lynch[2]
3. 19-Brent Marks[4]
4. 88N-DJ Netto[5]
5. 14-Corey Day[6]
6. 10-Dominic Gorden[7]
7. 31-Jett Yantis[3]
8. 9-Daison Pursley[9]
9. 121-Caeden Steele[8]
DMI Heat 2 (8 Laps):
1. 21-James McFadden[1]
2. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[2]
3. 87-Aaron Reutzel[4]
4. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[3]
5. 17GP-Brock Zearfoss[6]
6. 26R-Levi Hillier[7]
7. 26-Justin Peck[5]
8. 5-Dominic Scelzi[9]
9. 55-Kerry Madsen[8]
BR Motorsports Heat 3 (8 Laps):
1. 3-Kaleb Montgomery[1]
2. 88-Tanner Thorson[2]
3. 21L-Landon Brooks[3]
4. 0-Tim Kaeding[4]
5. 4-Kasey Kahne[5]
6. 24-Rico Abreu[6]
7. 9R-Chase Randall[7]
8. 2K-Jake Andreotti[8]
9. 24D-Danny Sams III[9]
FK Rod Ends Dash (7 Laps):
1. 87-Aaron Reutzel[1]
2. 13-Tanner Holmes[2]
3. 21-James McFadden[4]
4. 19-Brent Marks[3]
5. 0-Tim Kaeding[5]
6. 3-Kaleb Montgomery[6]
Winters Performance B Feature (12 Laps):
1. 31-Jett Yantis[1]
2. 26-Justin Peck[2]
3. 9R-Chase Randall[3]
4. 9-Daison Pursley[4]
5. 5-Dominic Scelzi[5]
6. 2K-Jake Andreotti[6]
7. 55-Kerry Madsen[8]
8. 24D-Danny Sams III[9]
9. 121-Caeden Steele[7]
Interstate Batteries A Feature (35 Laps):
1. 87-Aaron Reutzel[1]
2. 21-James McFadden[3]
3. 13-Tanner Holmes[2]
4. 0-Tim Kaeding[5]
5. 19-Brent Marks[4]
6. 42-Sye Lynch[7]
7. 88-Tanner Thorson[9]
8. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[8]
9. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[12]
10. 21L-Landon Brooks[10]
11. 26-Justin Peck[20]
12. 9R-Chase Randall[21]
13. 10-Dominic Gorden[16]
14. 5-Dominic Scelzi[23]
15. 4-Kasey Kahne[15]
16. 26R-Levi Hillier[17]
17. 24-Rico Abreu[18]
18. 9-Daison Pursley[22]
19. 88N-DJ Netto[11]
20. 2K-Jake Andreotti[24]
21. 17GP-Brock Zearfoss[14]
22. 31-Jett Yantis[19]
23. 3-Kaleb Montgomery[6]
24. 14-Corey Day[13]