The win is Heim’s second of the season after additionally profitable the season opener at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. He has completed first, second and first within the first three races in his first fulltime season with Billy Venturini.
“I made a mistake in the midst of the race and that form of set us again a bit of bit,” Heim mentioned. “I feel had been 15th or 16th at one level, which was the deepest we had been all day, and I needed to actually work laborious to get again to the entrance.
“I used to be simply making an attempt to make the very best choices that I may and hoped it might work out. Reality be informed, I form of did. We had been third on the that closing restart, Drew (Greenback) discovered a gap and shoved us previous (Holmes).
“I feel I used to be within the prime place in the long run. To win these superspeedway races, it’s important to have some assist. We had been the 2 finest helpers all day.”
The race was marred by two red-flags, the second which got here with 5 of 76 laps remaining and noticed driver Derrick Lancaster’s No. 29 Toyota get pancaked into the wall on the backstretch and instantly burst into flames.
Lancaster’s automotive, nonetheless in flames, got here to a relaxation coming into Flip three. Lancaster was helped from his automotive and instantly positioned on a stretcher and transported to an area hospital for additional analysis.
In keeping with a social media submit from Lancaster’s spouse, Elizabeth, Lancaster was despatched to the College of Alabama at Birmingham Burn Unit.
In one other social media submit from Lancaster’s household later Saturday afternoon, Derrick is on a ventilator to evaluate lung harm and has suffered 2nd and third diploma burns to each arms, his neck and face.
Saturday’s race was simply the seventh within the profession of the 48-year-old from Christiansburg, Va.
Dave Mader III completed second, Nick Sanchez was third, Drew Greenback fourth and Bret Holmes rounded out the top-five.
With 15 laps remaining, Sanchez obtained into Greg Van Alst, who obtained turned down the monitor and into CoyGibbs, knocking out two drivers who had been in rivalry for the win. John Ferrier additionally obtained collected within the incident.
After working beneath warning a number of laps, ARCA determined to red-flag the race for almost 5 minutes to finish the cleanup.
Holmes had moved into the lead simply earlier than the warning and led the best way when the race restarted with 5 to go. He was adopted by Lancaster and Sanchez.
Coming off Flip 2 on the restart, Drew Greenback appeared to get into Heim and Lancaster, which despatched Lancaster laborious into the skin wall and instantly introduced out one other crimson flag.