I hate to see it because I root for the underdog and he has been keeping at it through very difficult circumstances without a contract and doing great recently, but Holt appears to have lost his balance at the start and taken some steps (who know how many since the camera shifts away too soon to tell) on the lane inside of him, not outside, so he was dq'd by standard dq rules, since he necessarily ran less on that first turn. Of course, in the grand scheme of the race, it probably hurt him more than helped him, since he knew he might be dq'd and he would have had to correct his motion twice at that point, first to get back into lane 9 and then back to the left to stay in lane 9. You'd have to assess it if you considered clemency by whether it really helped him--which it likely did not--and whether you advanced people in similar situations in the past.