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Heather Lowe Never Gives Up
Heather Lowe’s first win was at her home track in Arkadelthia Alabama. She was still learning how to ad- just her car so she was rac- ing at the back of the pack. What Heather didn’t realize was that during the race all of the drivers ended up pull- ing back into the pits except the lead driver. On the last lap the lead driver ended up spinning out and Heather drove on by him for the win. She didn’t even know she won the race, so she drove
back into the pits and started to load the trailer to go home. Sometimes the greatest racers start out with the best stories. Heather’s story actually started out when her grandfa- ther and uncle raced. She was around the track so much that she fell in love with the sport. Her uncle gave her one of his old race cars and at the age of seventeen Heather began her
racing career.
“I was always told to ‘Never Give Up’ and that is
something that has always stuck with me.” In 2017 she won the points championship.
Heather is currently 21 years old and is in her third year racing in the dirt late models. She aspires to run for Na- tional points in her division during this racing season. You can see her at the track sporting the number 16, a Masters- built chassis, in the Durrance Layne Late Model 602 Sports- man division. Her long term career goals are to build a suc- cessful career racing in the Lucas Oil Late Models.
You can find Heather during the racing season trav- eling around to tracks like, Magnolia Speedway in Columbus, Mississippi; North Alabama; Talladega, ECM Speedway, and Moulton Speedway which are all in Alabama; Thunder Hill Raceway LLC in Tennessee; Whynot Motorsports Park in Meridian, Mississippi; and lastly Fort Wayne Motor Speedway in Indiana.
Heather would like to thank her sponsors Randy’s Tree Service, Ace Hardware, KW Realty Victoria Purcell, and M&M Excavating for supporting her racing career. She want- ed to give a personal thank you to her sponsor and friend Doug Mckleroy. He owns Mckleroy Motorsports and she considers Doug her lifeline when her car isn’t working. She says she can call him at any hour and he will always be there to help her when she needs it.
We all need people that help us in our life when things go wrong. In high school Heathers life took a turn for the
By: Linda Spangler
said “she felt so scared and helpless because all she could do was watch the cars coming straight for their car.” The force of the crash was so devastating that it caused several discs in Heather’s back to blow out. She never gave up and battled back from the crash. Instead of playing softball she went on to race her uncle’s dirt late model. “I guess everything hap- pens in life for a reason.” she went on to explain.
worse. She always imag- ined herself playing soft- ball in high school and then throughout college. But, for Heather that ended in the blink of an eye. During a game she pulled her shoulder out and ended up in physi- cal therapy to ease her pain. While driving on the interstate on the way home from an appoint- ment an eighteen wheel- er pulled into their lane and crashed the car. She
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