{"id":204294,"date":"2025-09-06T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204294\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:25:14","slug":"aaron-reutzel-booed-in-victory-lane-while-on-crutches-at-port-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204294\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Reutzel booed in victory lane while on crutches at Port Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow low do you have to be to boo a crippled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, Aaron Reutzel suffered from a broken foot in a crash at Eldora Speedway. The crash sent him into surgery. <\/p>\n<p>Reutzel flipped during the 30-lap Kings Royal preliminary race at Eldora. He flipped into turn one and was clipped by both Zach Hampton and Steven Snyder Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was in a battle for the High Limit Racing championship. However, after the injury he was forced to miss 8 High Limit Races. <\/p>\n<p>He made his return at Port Royal Speedway on September 4th with limited mobility. He finished 11th, narrowly missing a top 10.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday at the same track, he drove to the race win. Reutzel was fitted with a custom made carbon fiber shoe, just to be able to drive the car. And he drove it right to victory lane. <\/p>\n<p>He climbed out in victory lane and grabbed a set of crutches. And he was met with boos from the crowd\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Aaron Reutzel in victory lane - Port Royal Speedway - High Limit Racing - Paul Arch Photo (1)\" class=\"wp-image-134427\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Aaron-Reutzel-in-victory-lane-Port-Royal-Speedway-High-Limit-Racing-Paul-Arch-Photo-1-768x512.jpg\"\/>Aaron Reutzel in victory lane \u2013 Port Royal Speedway \u2013 High Limit Racing \u2013 Paul Arch Photo (1)<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Reutzel comments<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow low do you have to be to boo a crippled,\u201d Aaron Reutzel stated from victory lane. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I needed my foot to heal up a little faster. It was taking a long time. Finally, I had enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally, it was trying to figure out how to do it, stay safe and not further damage myself. I was honestly nervous when I committed to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shoe here, it\u2019s basically like wearing my walking boot, my cast. It\u2019s solid but still small enough to get in the car. It would never happen with a regular boot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday, it took a lot to figure out how to run the car this way, with no feeling. I\u2019m used to feeling the pedal with my toes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy leg is wore out. This is cool. It\u2019s a little emotional, it\u2019s a lot. That was a big one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, I\u2019ve never had to sit out on the sidelines. It sucked. Definitely, one of my better years, ever, speed wise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the worst time to get hurt. I could think of a lot of other years, if I had to pick a year to get hurt it wouldn\u2019t have been this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo trips to the hospital this year. It\u2019s been a really trying year. But, we keep overcoming it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The High Limit Racing drivers will be back in action on the same track for Saturday night\u2019s finale of the event. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2025\/09\/05\/port-royal-results-september-5-2025-high-limit-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Port Royal Results: September 5, 2025 (High Limit Racing)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronreutzelracing.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Reutzel<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlimitracing.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High Limit Racing<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portroyalspeedway.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Port Royal Speedway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHow low do you have to be to boo a crippled.\u201d In July 2025, Aaron Reutzel suffered from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":204295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[112686,46471,112576,112577,112578,112579,112687,112688,112689,112690,112691,112692,1406,112693,112694,112695,112696,112697,112698,112699,62,112580,22301,112700,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-204294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-aaron-reutzel","9":"tag-dirt","10":"tag-dirt-racing","11":"tag-dirt-sprint-car","12":"tag-dirt-sprint-cars","13":"tag-dirt-track-racing","14":"tag-eldora","15":"tag-eldora-speedway","16":"tag-high-limit","17":"tag-high-limit-racing","18":"tag-high-limit-series","19":"tag-high-limit-sprint-car-series","20":"tag-nascar","21":"tag-port-royal","22":"tag-port-royal-pa","23":"tag-port-royal-pennsylvania","24":"tag-port-royal-speedway","25":"tag-rossburg-oh","26":"tag-rossburg-ohio","27":"tag-ryan-smith","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-sprint-car","30":"tag-sprint-cars","31":"tag-tuscarora-50","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115155928651292671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}