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Reinhardt and his team traveled to his home state of New Jersey for another Tuesday night High Limit Racing event on October 3rd at Bridgeport Motorsports Park, a 4-tenths mile oval where he has had success in past outings, including an All Star Circuit of Champions podium earlier this season.

The early speed was present again for Reinhardt, who posted the 2nd quickest time overall in the thirty-three car field.

Reinhardt went on to post a heat race victory over Tyler Courtney, Brent Marks, and Devon Borden to earn a spot in the dash.  He drew the number five pill, started the 7-lap dash from inside the third row, and crossed the finish line 6th.

From the 6th starting spot in the 35-lap, $23,023 to win A-main, Reinhardt claimed the 5th spot on the opening circuit and held a firm grasp on it for the first twenty circuits.  

On lap twenty he moved into 4th and began his pursuit of Cory Eliason for a podium position.  On the final circuit, low fuel landed Reinhardt in 5th by 0.071 seconds.

“I’m really happy with our first High Limit race in the 91.  We had good speed all night and I felt like I was in position to race for a podium but got held up behind some lapped cars running in 4th, then ran out of fuel on the last lap and ended up 5th.”, Reinhardt commented.

Saturday night Reinhardt was just a tick off in qualifying, landing 5th in his group.  The Neptune City, NJ native slipped to 6th at the start of his heat race, battled back to 5th a few laps later, but ultimately ended up 6th.

In the B-main, Reinhardt showed his team was getting his No.45 dialed in.  He charged from his 6th starting spot into 3rd by lap two and he never let go of the transfer spot.

The trend continued in the 30-lap 4-Crown Nationals A-main.  Reinhardt started 23rd but at the drop of the green surged forward to 16th.  He cracked the top fifteen a few laps later.  

Reinhardt momentarily held 14th just past the midpoint of the race, but at the checkers had recorded a 15th place finish after overcoming engine issues against a stout field.

“We just got behind the 8-ball all weekend starting with engine problems on Friday.“, Reinhardt said.  “I’m proud of our team.  Everyone worked hard and we improved for Saturday.“

Saturday night Reinhardt was back at Fremont Speedway to go after the Jim and Joanne Classic weekend sweep, and it certainly looked like he was up to the task.  

Once again, he timed 2nd quickest in his group and won his heat race from the pole to put the Grove Racing No.45 into the dash.  He started 5th in the dash, slipped backwards two spots, then battled back to finish 5th.

Starting inside row three for the 40-lap finale, Reinhardt moved into the 4th spot on lap four and settled in there for the next twenty laps.

With the top five running close together in heavy traffic, Reinhardt’s patience paid off.  He took advantage of an opening on the low side of turn four, quickly darting into the runner up spot.  Over the final fifteen circuits, he gave chase to leader Zeb Wise, nipping at his heels and pulling alongside on several occasions.

Despite a caution with two laps to go that provided a restart opportunity for Reinhardt, he was never able to wrestle the lead away from Wise and finished 2nd, missing the weekend sweep by just 0.958 seconds.

“I can’t thank my guys enough.  Chris (Shuttlesworth) and all the 45 guys have been working really hard and it shows.”, Reinhardt said.  

“I got under Zeb (Wise) one time, but he did what he needed to do to keep the position and it broke my momentum.“

Reinhardt did not want to see the final caution with two laps remaining.

“He (Wise) doesn’t know it, but he’s lucky that caution came out because I had my momentum back and was rolling pretty good.“, Reinhardt said with a smile.

Saturday evening the program began under sunny skies but with an unfavorable forecast, just like Friday night’s show.  The Tuscarora 50 format split the 49 cars into two groups for time trials.

Reinhardt turned the 10th quickest lap in Group B, a nice improvement over Friday’s lap.

The qualifying effort earned Reinhardt the pole for heat number four with the top three finishers transferring to the A-main, but unlike the night before, the skies did not cooperate.  Moments after time trials were completed, the rain came.  They didn’t let up for hours, forcing officials to postpone the event.

When the Tuscarora 50 is rescheduled, the program will start over.  A makeup date for the event has not been announced yet.