Reinhardt Continues Late-Season Surge With Top-Ten, Solid World Finals With World of Outlaws

Wednesday night at The Dirt Track at Charlotte was qualifying night for Reinhardt and the Capitol Custom Coaches & Trailers, Coors Banquet Beer, E-Z-GO Golf Cars, Henry’s Wrecker Service No.91 team.  Two rounds of time trials would set the stage for their Thursday and Friday night preliminary programs.  Kyle turned in the 12th quickest and 7th quickest laps respectively for those nights, both in Group B qualifying.

Reinhardt lined up 6th in his Thursday night heat race, needing to make the top five to transfer directly to the night’s main event, but he missed that transfer by one spot.  He needed a run from 6th in the B-main into a top-four finishing position to find his way in, but it didn’t happen.

An 8th-place finish in Thursday’s B-main brought an end to his night.  On the bright side, a lot was learned that would pay dividends the remainder of the week.

Reinhardt kicked off Friday night in a better position, turning a 4th starting spot into a 3rd place heat race finish, locking himself into the A-main.  

In Friday’s 25-lap A-main, the Neptune City, NJ native started moving forward from his 10th starting spot and was running as high as 7th on lap sixteen.  Reinhardt lost a couple of spots during some tight battles in the closing laps but still managed a very solid 10th-place run.

Following Friday’s program, points earned over the first three nights were tallied.  The result was a 5th starting spot in neat number two for Reinhardt.  He held 5th, the final transfer spot, for the first few laps but eventually, Donny Schatz wrestled it away, relegating the No.91 to the B-main for his final shot to make Saturday’s finale.

Reinhardt started outside the front row in the 12-lap B-main and brought home a 3rd-place finish to make the show.  He went on to turn in a 19th-place finish in the final World of Outlaws A-main of the season.

“I’m pretty pleased with our World Finals showing, especially with an Outlaw top ten!”, a happy Reinhard commented.

“I think Thursday we just didn’t make the right decisions to the car with so few laps but we got it better for the rest of the weekend, so it was a solid week for sure.”