Jimmy Heavlow: “I tried to pass him high, but couldn’t get around Dylan for the win”

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Jimmy Heavlow started the Winter Heat season at Lowe’s
Motor Speedway with a strong second place finish in the Legends Young
Lions category.

After an up and down Summer Shootout, the karting standout returned
to Charlotte, this time for the fifth-mile track races, instead of
the quarter-mile the Shootout races. Heavlow is the Maryland state
WKA champion in every class he contested this year, running
undefeated in features at his home tracks. Heavlow and his father
flew to Charlotte for the practice session on Friday, staying for
Saturday’s races. “I was pretty fast,” reported the recent winner of
WKA races at the LMS infield road course. “We were one of the top
five cars. We changed some stuff on the car and on Saturday, it was
pretty fast in the morning,” he added.

Starting his first heat race in fifth, he moved up to second at the
checkered flag, after only six laps. Delays in the schedule meant it
was nearly dark when the feature race went under the green flag,
where he started fourth. “We got around two cars in the first three
laps with no problems, then it was just me chasing Dylan Presnell,”
described Heavlow. The leader cleared a pair of lapped cars just
before a caution flag flew, trapping the Maryland hot shoe behind them.

On the restart, Heavlow described the rest of the race: “I got around
the first one but then there was a caution before we finished one
lap, so we got put back behind the two lapped cars. On another
restart, I got by one car, then on a green-white-checker restart [for
yet another caution] I tried to pass him high, but couldn’t get
around Dylan for the win.”

In spite of the runner-up finish, “it was overall a fun race,” said
Heavlow. He plans to return to LMS again Saturday morning for the
second round in the Winter Heat series, hoping to improve on his
previous finish.


 
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