Reinhardt Nets Top-10 in Solid Night at Lincoln Speedway’s Sterner Memorial

To set the field for the lucrative event, the 32 cars on hand were divided into four groups.  Drivers qualified against the cars in their group using time trials followed by heat races.

Reinhardt was the third car to hit the track in group two qualifying.  He laid down the 3rd quickest lap in the group, which put him on the front row for his heat race.

In the 10-lap qualifying race, Freddie Rahmer slipped under Reinhardt in turn one on the opening lap, dropping the No.91 to 3rd.   

Reinhardt had an opportunity to return the favor on a restart with eight laps remaining but couldn’t find an opening to reclaim the runner-up spot.  He held a firm grasp on 3rd the rest of the way.

From his starting spot outside row six in the 40-lap finale, Reinhardt raced his way into the top ten by lap three.  Late in the first half of the race, he briefly slipped out of the top ten but using a lap eighteen restart to his advantage, he battled all the way back to the 9th spot as the race reached the halfway mark.

Over the final twenty laps, Reinhardt pursued 8th place Devon Borden using the low side of the speedway.  A restart with seven laps remaining gave Reinhardt another chance to go on the attack.  He pressured Borden for 8th but he could not wrestle it away and settled for the 9th place finish.

“I’m happy with the progress. We made some good changes and had a better car than 9th but that’s racing sometimes.”, Reinhard commented.