When Baillie Lowe first started racing with the American All-Star Series Presented by PPM Racing Products, he set out to craft his own setup for success. While that may be the long way to victory lane, it paid off. He won his first series race in the No. 727 on 7-27 at Rockcastle Speedway in Mount Vernon, Kentucky.
“I wanted to figure it out on my own,” Lowe, of Fairview, North Carolina, said. “I didn’t want to buy this chassis and if it doesn’t work, switch to a different one. It’s just been trying things, learning more and more, and learning about tires. What made it even more rewarding was that the speed we were showing was self-taught.”
Lowe has cut out various things on the TNT Race Cars chassis and welded new things in to adjust his setup. He credits Ed Asbury, of Traction King Suspension, for guiding him in the right direction. While most of what Lowe has done is self-taught, that sometimes means learning the hard way. Lowe found that out in a weekly race at Lake Cumberland Speedway in Burnside, Kentucky, at the end of June.
“I was running second and I absolutely nailed the wall down,” said Lowe. “It shoved the rear clip over. It was discouraging and I was mad at myself. I fixed it all myself. I didn’t bring it back to TNT. That’s another thing that made it rewarding. I bent my frame all to crap, fixed it ourselves — cut it, welded it back up — and went back out there and raced.”
And in his first race at Rockcastle Speedway, he won, but it wasn’t the first time Lowe had ever been there.
“The first race I ever went to, my dad raced at Rockcastle Speedway when it was asphalt,” Lowe said. “They had a photo of me, I was three or four weeks old, and they had one of the rollable toolboxes, they had one of the drawers out, and they had me in that, wrapped in a blanket, while he was racing.”
Baillie Lowe will seek his next win this weekend as the American All-Star Series Presented by PPM Racing Products heads to two tracks this weekend. On Friday, August 2, they venture to Beckley Motor Speedway in West Virginia and on Saturday, August 3, it’s Willard Speedway in Kentucky.
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The Outside Groove Executive Editor has covered motorsports since 2000. His many awards include the 2019 Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA) Jim Hunter Writer of the Year and the 2013 Russ Catlin Award for Excellence in Motorsports Journalism.
