FULL RACE: Don Martin Memorial | High Limit Racing at Lernerville Speedway 7/22/2026

3 Kilavier and Tanner Holmes in row 1. Run over 2, Giamatti Celsi and Aaron Reitzel. Row 3, Jeremy Weaver and Corey Day. 4th row of Tyler Courtney and Anthony Macri. 5th row is Ricky Peterson and Justin Peck. Row 6, Brock Zierfoss and Brenham Crouch. Run over 7, Kerry Mattson and Jacob Degenwald. Row 8, Dason Pursley and A.J. Flick. Row 9, that is going to be Logan Wagner and Gage Polkerbeck. Row 10, Ryan Newton and Tanner Thorson. Then from the B main, Brent Marks and James McFadden, Brandon Spithaller and Cy Lynch, and then utilizing provisionals Chase Randall and Danny Sams back in row number 13. Going green this time. Lernerville Speedway. We got them wrecked. We got them stacked. And we've got the grandstands packed. Let's go racing up in turn number 4. We are brief. Underway in the silver cup. Rico Eber jumps out with the early race lead. Big runner on the outside for Tanner Holmes. Not able to do anything with it there. As Rico is going to show the way into turn number 3. He runs the middle as Holmes plugs the right rear to the cushion. Their nose to tail coming across the start finish line. Behind them, Giovanni Selzy gets the best of a battle between himself and Aaron Reitzel. Now Reitzel challenged down low by Corey Day. Corey Day's going to take 4th away, but Reitzel around the outside is going to have the momentum. And now he comes after Selzy to turn 3 and 4. Aaron Reitzel now back to 4th and now coming after Selzy for the 3rd spot. They go side by side for that spot into turn number 1. Aaron Reitzel takes 3rd away from Selzy. Now Reitzel to the middle. Selzy gets the grip off the bottom. He'll take that spot back away down the back stretch. Now they swap lines in 3 and 4. Reitzel with a slide job attempt at turn number 4. Comes up short and Selzy hangs on to 3rd. Now Gio goes down low. Reitzel to the top. A cat and mouse game back there for that 3rd position. Give it to Giovanni Selzy in the Chili's number 77. Now Reitzel down to the inside. Slide job coming. Selzy around the outside still has the 3rd spot. Giovanni Selzy and Aaron Reitzel both closing in on Tanner Holmes in that 2nd spot. Holmes is down low. Selzy's on the top. Corey Day trying to put a bit in for that 4th spot. He's all over Aaron Reitzel down the back stretch as here comes Gio. Make that Corey Day down low excuse me. Going for 4th. 5 laps down in this 35 lap race as Rico Ebru approaches the back of the field. Catching up to Danny Sams and Logan Wagner. Rico's going to have to make some decisions on his line because his preferred crew on the bottom is covered in lap cars. He'll go to the outside of Danny Sams down the back stretch and try to put that lap car away. Tanner Holmes sitting in 2nd. 3rd spot still up for grabs. It's Gio down low and Reitzel on the top. Reitzel gets a good run down the front straightaway but not able to get by Gio quite yet. Reitzel's car appears to be very good on the top side of the racetrack on both ends of the speedway as he pulls up next to Gio down the back straightaway. Race for 3rd is side by side. Reitzel might have it this time by off a turn number 4 and he does at the start finish line. Aaron Reitzel takes 3rd away from Gio. Reitzel to 3rd and all of a sudden on the back bumper of Tanner Holmes down the back stretch. Rico's gotten by a couple of slower cars, that being the 55 of Logan Wagner and the 2 of A.J. Flick. He's got cars side by side in front of him now as he tries to get banana splitting between Jacob Begginwald and Ryan Newton. Rico goes by the 3J of Begginwald. Tanner Holmes has separated himself from the 87 of Aaron Reitzel. As Holmes now has to check up there as Begginwald got over the cushion right in front of him. That's going to allow Aaron Reitzel to close back in. Corey Day working on Giovanni Selzy. He goes down low now to the cushion in turn number 2 as Corey sits in 4th and 5th is now Anthony McAree. Excuse me, McAree in the 6th spot closing in on Corey for the P5 position and now McAree challenged out back by the 7VC of Tyler Courtney. Tyler Courtney right there with McAree. Now Courtney challenged down low by Justin Peck. Peck goes by the 7VC, moved Justin Peck up to 7th. Justin Peck, the Durst Ice rolling driver up to 7th and now closing in on Anthony McAree for 6th. Rico Avery trying to fight through a couple of slower cars. Just got cut off on the backstretch there by Brandon Spithaller. Car around in turn 4, yellow comes out for Daston Pursley. Yellow flag waving for the number 9 car, Daston Pursley, who was running 18th at the time with 12 laps completed of this 35 lap feature event. Here's a look at the replay on the drone. Bottom right of your screen, Pursley comes off in turn 4, just loses the handle on the Napa 9 and spins it down into the infield. And so the most recent winner with High Limit here at Lernerville draws the caution. But if Tanner Holmes can stay aggressive here on the start, at least he showed us on the initial start, he was able to keep Abreu within shouting distance. It'll be interesting to see if he can make anything happen and capitalize on that quick fire off speed that he showed on the initial start. Yeah, he did look good at the beginning as the Chasm Safety Brocs choose cones out on the track. Drivers going inside or outside to determine which lane they will start in for this upcoming double-file restart. Coming to the green this time by. 12 laps down and 23 to go. Green flag waves once again. Rico gets a good launch off the inside and drives down into turn 1 with the race lead. Tanner Holmes tries the middle in 1 and 2, trying to build momentum and catch back up to the car quest number 24. Aaron Reitzel in third, fourth is Selzy and now fifth is Anthony Macri. He got behind the 14 of Corey Day on the restart. Anthony Macri now up to fifth. Problem for Cy Lynch farther back in the field. Lynch has got tagged from behind and then he fell back about 8 or so spots and so Lynch is going to give him a lot of ground to gain early on in this one. Macri now coming out to the 77 of Giovanni Selzy racing for the fourth position. The two-time Kings Royal Champion is trying to challenge for a podium spot here tonight. Gets passed on the inside by Corey Day, now Macri is back to the sixth spot. Aaron Reitzel appears to be coming to life. Now on the tail section of the 13 of Tanner Holmes. Holmes goes down low, Reitzel on the top. They're separated by one car length down the back straightaway. Rico Avery closing in on the tail end of the field once again. Reitzel down low, going to try and take second away. He will do so across the start-finish line. Aaron Reitzel takes second away from Tanner Holmes. Holmes back to the inside in turn 1, tries to circle the bottom, but Reitzel pulls away by four car lengths down the back stretch. Aaron Reitzel now zeroing in on Rico Avery, the only car left to encounter for the $25,000 victory here tonight. Rico runs the car through the middle, Reitzel around the top. He does appear to be closing in, and now Rico's got traffic to deal with. Cars have pulled off the racetrack yet, so all 26 are still out there. That is going to affect Rico Avery. Avery to the middle, trying to get around the outside of A.J. Flick. Cannot do so there in turn number 2. Last time by in the top two, separated by 1.1 second. Aaron Reitzel took two tenths out of Rico Avery's lead the last time by. Rico this time runs a 15.26 and a 15.26 as well for Reitzel, so nearly identical lap times for your top two drivers. This time by, going to be 15 laps to go in the 35th running of the Silver Cup, and Aaron Reitzel is closing in on Rico Avery. Race for third, getting good as well. Corey Day all over Tanner Holmes in a turn 1. Tanner Holmes goes down low. Corey Day almost over the banking there. Holds on to the race car and maintains the fourth spot. Now Rico trying to get through some of the slower cars. Ran the middle of the racetrack there and pulled away from Reitzel by six tenths of a second. A good lap there for Rico to put distance between himself and the Richardson's racing number 87. Rico closing in on Danny Sams and Logan Lagger. Those two cars ahead of him get very close. Now Rico's over the cushion. Rico hopped the cushion and turned forward. Here comes Aaron Reitzel down the front straightaway. Rico goes down low. Aaron Reitzel to the top of the racetrack. The top two in series point standings. Going at it for a $25,000 paycheck. Reitzel to the inside. Going to be side by side. Potentially off a turn number 4 for the race lead. Here comes Aaron Reitzel. Rico leads the lap. 12 laps to go at the Silver Cup, and Rico's trying to float the middle. Avery through the middle. Pulls away from Reitzel once again. And Corey Day's trying to get on the front as well. Payday from out of nowhere is right there with Aaron Reitzel off a turn number 4. Corey Day to the inside of Reitzel for a second. He'll try and make the move to the inside and turn around. Now Reitzel's over the cushion. Corey Day goes by for a second. Into P2. He was 1.2 seconds behind the 24 of Avery though. This time by 10 laps to go for Rico Avery. Corey Day now. Oh, caution. Reitzel with a problem. Aaron Reitzel with a problem in turn number 4. Sounds like he hopped the cushion maybe off the wall. Chase, that's exactly what happened. Looked up as Reitzel slid up over the cushion through the middle of 4. The car bunny hopped on him and just had simply no time and nowhere to go as he nosed into where he's parked on the wall. Here's Comp Cam's replay for folks back home watching on Flow. He had just hopped the cushion in 1 and 2 right before this and hits it again. We saw Rico do that a lap or two ago and barely gets in that wall but was up on the bike there and a mistake we do not see very often from Aaron Reitzel. That is going to take him out of the third position. Well past the halfway point so any guaranteed time in the work area is foregone and any guaranteed time these teams would have anyway is simply to replace a flat tire and there's a lot more than that to do here for that second place championship driver, Aaron Reitzel. They'll go to work on swapping out this front end but they're not going to have enough time down here. Yeah, we're going green this time by. Single file start coming up. It's Abreu followed by Day, Holmes, Macri and Peck. McFadden is 22nd to 9th right now in the 21. Green flag back in the air for the final 10 laps of the Silver Cup. Rico Abreu with Corey Day now hot on his heels into turn 1. Abreu runs the bottom, slips it up off the inside of the racetrack and turnover June pulls away from Corey Day down the back straightaway. Day now in his happy place right up alongside the cushion here at the Lernerville Speedway. Two distinct lines between your top two drivers. Day up on the top side. Separated by 8 car lengths. There's going to be 8 laps to go this time by and Corey Day is absolutely in full sin known in turns 3 and 4. The cushion a lot thinner down there in 1 and 2. Cannot be quite as aggressive but you can really really pound it down here in 3 and 4. Rico continues to circle right through the middle portion of the racetrack. We'll check the lap times. A 14.7 for both drivers at the front of the field. Corey Day not able to close in. They may get to the back of the field by the end of this thing. This time by and there will be 6 laps to go for Rico Abreu. Corey Day certainly closed the gap. Just took 4 tenths out of Rico's lead that time by. Day up on the top. Closing in on Rico Abreu down the back straightaway. Traffic going to be the deciding factor in this one. Rico through the middle. Corey Day around the outside. Their nose to tail down the front straightaway at Lernerville. Corey Day once again back to the top of the racetrack. Now turns it down the hill off of turn number 2. This time by there will be 4 laps to go. Lap traffic now in the mix as Rico gets tight on the cushion right there in turn 4. Corey Day in his back pocket down the front straightaway. Corey Day once again to the top. This may be the opening he needs. Rico stuck behind a slower car. Rico not able to get by the 24D of Danny Sams. Rico through the middle. Does not like the cushion in turn number 4. Corey Day not able to get by him. All the lap cars are down the inside. Rico through the middle once again. Corey Day just one car length behind for the race lead. This time going to be 2 laps to go between Rico Abreu and Corey Day. Corey Day absolutely locked in on the top side of the racetrack in turn 4. But Rico's car gets to the middle very nice that time. It does it around the outside. Corey Day going to take the lead down the back straightaway. Coming this time by. Corey Day to the race lead of Lernerville Speedway. One lap to go. Can Rico pull off another crazy one here in this one? Now look to the inside of Corey Day in turn 1. Day around the outside to get by the slower car. Checkered flag this time by. Into 3 and 4 for the final time. It's going to be a $25,000 win. Lernerville Speedway. Rico Abreu second. Tanner Holmes third. Anthony Macri fourth. And Justin Peck in fifth. Corey Day just picked his pocket with two laps to go to get the $25,000 Silver Cup win. Abreu second by two-tenths of a second. Tanner Holmes third. Anthony Macri fourth. And Justin Peck in fifth. Tyler Courtney, Giovanni Selzy, Carey Mattson, Tanner, make that James McFadden and Tanner Thorsen the top 10. Brenham Crouch, Brock Zierfoss, Jason Pursley, Brent Marks, Ricky Peterson, Chase Randall, Si Lynch, Jeremy Weaver, Brandon Smitthaler, and Gage Polkerbeck. A $25,000 check. Not a bad payday. As he climbs up top, your winner here tonight, all the way up top, Corey Day. Top wing. And he is going to climb around the front of the race car and talk to Tony Laporta as a high-level winner once again. He sure is. Ladies and gentlemen, he can hear you. That's your winner, Corey Day. All right, I want to give you this because I've been forgetting to hand these out lately. That's your Chasm Safety Technologies win sticker. You can put that on the tail tank or really anywhere you want because with that drive tonight, you earned the right to put that sticker wherever you want. Man, so many things to unpack about that race. The track. What was it like? We saw Rico stumble over the cushion. Aaron Reitzel stumbled over. I don't know if we ever saw you stumble over. What was the top side of this Lernerville Speedway like tonight? Yeah, it's just really tricky. It's super thin down there. We're right on the edge and there's guys running the middle below you the whole time throwing dirt up to where you can't really see the edge, so you're just guessing off the feel of your right rear and it's hard to make speed that way. So, yeah, Rico just messed up enough there. I think in 3 and 4 he got tied and then he went to the bottom being defensive in 1 and 2 and left me a lane. So, yeah, just if you'd asked me at lap 10, I'd have told you there's no way we're running even on the podium, much less winning that thing. But, you know, I got my wing back and just calmed down in the car and tried to get the most out of it wherever it was good enough. And, yeah, we ended up winning somehow. 6th to 1st. You just said something very interesting that I'd love to know more about. You said you had to calm yourself down. 35 laps is on the longer side of features for sprint car racing, but around a place this fast, it's not exactly a lot of time. Man, it's a lot to unpack, but I want to know more about that. Calming yourself down, what goes into that? Do you realize at a certain point maybe you're not driving the car the way you want to? What do you tell yourself? How do you know you need to calm yourself down? Yeah, absolutely. I don't want to give away all my secrets, but yeah, just you find yourself running way too much throttle in the middle of these races and spinning your tires a lot more than you really need to. And in reality, if you just took a breath and rolled off the right pedal and smooth your hands out, you're probably gonna go faster. It just sometimes sounds and feels like you're going faster the other way. So, caught a caution at the right time to be able to do that. And just hats off to Shane. I honestly felt terrible all night long from qualifying to the dash. I thought my qualifying laps were gonna be 10th and they were somehow second. And then I felt terrible in the feature there until about lap 15. So, just hats off to him for working hard on it all night and getting it right. Thanks to Brody, Lawton, Jett, my girlfriend Ashlyn, Jason in Preston at home, Kenny, just everyone that supports us. That one felt really good. I'll be honest with you, I was surprised when I saw the Sander Engineering Team Transporter park in the back 40 of the pits here at Lernerville. Obviously, we saw you all four nights at Eldora for the Joker's Jackpot, the King's Rail weekend, but was coming here with High Limit always on the... Was that always on the schedule? What went into making the decision to be here tonight? Yeah, I had it on my schedule. I knew it was probably gonna be a little dependent on how our Eldora went. If we had a terrible week, I wasn't gonna come race around here and have maybe another terrible night, but we had a great Eldora. So, yeah, it was an easy decision to come do this one. I was not able to do this one last year, so wanted some redemption. Yeah, not able to do it. You were sick. You had to scratch from the event. And then finally, so many of us in the dirt track racing world are watching and loving what you're doing on the pavement in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series. But I mean, how much do you miss this, man? You're so, so talented at it. You seem to have so much fun. You put your car places so many others won't. How bad do you miss this kind of racing weekend, week out, night in and night out? Yeah, I miss it for sure. I kind of left at a point in my career where I thought the year after would have been a really, really good year for me. So it is hard sitting on the couch and watching most of these races and wondering what we would be doing if we were running this deal full time. But you know, I can't complain at what I'm able to do. Rick Hendrick and Jeff Gordon and everyone at Hendrick Motorsports allows me to come run sprint cars just as much as I want to or as much as my schedule allows. And I'm just glad it's going well for us this year. You'll always be a high roller. Great job. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, one more time. Your winner is Corey Day. Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup goes to the hands of the driver from Clovis California. He doesn't get to race him as much as he'd like, Chase. But when he does man, he puts on a show in a sprint car. He certainly does, Tony. Thank you very much. We'll take a look at our contingency award winners tonight. James McFadden is the rod and supply hard charger. He went 22nd to 9th for a plus 13 effort there after having that big wreck during the heat race. Our race reading Foundation rookie of the race, Tanner Holmes in the third position and the Jake's golf carts fastest lap on lap 15 a 14.294 second lap time for Rico Abreu Abreu starts on the pole position, leads a lot of that race. I talked to Corey Day about the top side of this racetrack, and he said it was tricky. You stumbled a time or two if there weren't the mistakes on the top. Do you think you could have held day off? I mean, if I would have moved up, probably and got my car to maneuver better. I just three and four was really struggling on the top, and I migrated back down after those few mistakes from my part. But other than that, like in traffic, I just really got up out of the bars and numb and really wiggly through the corners and snapping around. So, you know, that that's his style racetrack right there to rip the lip. And I think that when you really look at our program here and getting it getting our car to run off of the cushion you know that those races you know, you gotta give and take there. So I wasn't gonna keep making the same mistake over and over. I feel like over the years, you know, running for a championship here, you have to be able to react very quickly and maneuver, you know, and get where my car is comfortable for me, and that was middle of the bottom of the racetrack for sure. Yeah, points racing and keeping yourself in the championship point lead, especially when your nearest rival, Aaron Reitzel, wrecks out of this one. That's points racing for you. I'm curious. Corey catches up to you inside of ten to go. He gets really, really close with like five or six to go from inside that Tony Stewart racing number 24. What can you hear? How aware are you that someone's closing in on you? Yeah, I mean, I was just really trying to focus on where the lap traffic was running, and if I could run off their right rear through the center of the corner and knew that you know the top was gonna come in as you're racing, you're watching how clean those lanes get. And, you know, lap cars are making hay way up ahead of you, and you're trying to focus on those maneuvers. So, you know, anytime that you race a high limit sprint car race, you have the best sprint car drivers in the world here, and they're maneuvering around and figuring out where their car is really comfortable. So, you know, those races, that's what happens when you start searching or if you don't run a lane that's faster and you commit to the middle of the bottom and, you know, you just run second sometimes. A perfect breakdown of his night from your defending series champion and remaining point leader Rico Abreu. Love to hear him break down a night of sprint car racing, and he has got the applause of still a lot of fans here hanging out with us. Tanner Holmes started second. You finished third. You had great fire off speed at the very start of this race. We're still coming to a lot of places. You're learning. This team's out of Pennsylvania. Just how much communication goes in to another night racing with high limit. Totally. Yeah. No, I'm obviously relying on my guys a lot to kind of give me some pointers at these different places, you know, that they've been to or they've ran well at. And, obviously, it helps. I get comfortable right away. You know, tonight I've only been to learn about one time before, but felt 10 times better than my last start here. So it was just nice to have a lot of clean air all night and then also to be up here with Rico and Corey and just kind of see how the race kind of came to be through 35 laps. Felt like I made some good decisions. And then also there was times where, you know, you end up in the wrong spot or you get to lap traffic, and you just really got to place yourself in the right spot to win these things. And I feel like we're still learning how to do that, how to be up front and really just build consistency. And over the last month, I feel like these guys have given me a good hot rod to do so. So it's been fun to drive the boot car. Yeah, it looked like you really did a good job of piecing together the night from the start of the feature here to parking it on the front straightaway in third position. Another strong result. Great to see out of you. Yeah, totally. You know, we have a lot of racing ahead still. So just taking it night by night. It's nice to be here on the podium. So just want to give a big shout out to Tom Boock, my team, Jerry Pettigrew, a great supporter of us, and my entire family, my girlfriend. She's actually probably sitting in an airport somewhere on the way here. So just shout out to all my friends and family back home. They obviously root me on, and it's great to be here. Tanner Holmes started second ends on the podium with a third place result here tonight. Remember, Chase, this car, Boock Motorsports parked it in Whiskey Myers Victory Lane at the Lernerville Speedway just over one year ago. Personally, of course, was the driver, but we talked about it when Tanner Holmes won back in Harlan, Iowa. You know, you've got a great crew teaming up on this Boock Motorsports number 13. Sean Strasbaugh is a world-class crew chief, and he does great work with young drivers, and it seems like he's got a new one every single season. Tanner Holmes is the current driver that he's building and grooming to get to the top level of wing national sprint car racing. It's a busy, busy week here for Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing. Ransomville, New York, what is it about? Three and a half, four hours away, we're going to start tearing down and make our way to New York State. Absolutely, Tony. That is where we're at tomorrow on the state line on Friday. As we see a race recap here, Rico Avery led early, he led often, but at the end, it would not be him standing in Whiskey Myers' victory lane as he had to fight through a lot of lap traffic here in this one. Aaron Wright still looked like he had a car that could contend with Rico for the win. He got by Corey Day earlier, then he would get by Giovanni Selzy a few laps later, move into the third spot, and then here in just a few moments, he also gets by the 13 of Tanner Holmes. Corey Day would start to pick off cars very slowly, but surely. He got by Macri there, moved into the top five. Here's the move from Reitzel right across the nose on the 13 of Tanner Holmes to take over second place, and then at around the same time, Day would get by the 77 of Giovanni Selzy, and I believe the issue for Reitzel is coming up here as Day would then get by the 13 of Tanner Holmes to take over the third spot. Reitzel makes the mistake there, and a corner later on that same lap, he goes into turn four, hooks the cushion, gets over it. There's a little pogo stick on the right front there, comes to a stop, and he would end up in the 23rd spot, and then Corey Day would get a huge run around the outside of Rico Ebru to take the lead away. You can see his crew guys were pumped. Jet Barnes up there as well, the West Coast driver for Jason Myers Racing helping out tonight, and there he is on the right as he came across the line as a winner once again with Interstate Batteries Highlander Racing at the Silver Cup.