Competing in a Late Model, Jessie's interest in learning from other drivers is evident in his relationship with champion stock car racer Rock Harris.
"He's a good kid," Harris says, as quoted in a Stock Car Racing.com article written by Don Hamilton. "He's bright and not afraid to ask questions. I guess he reminds me a little of myself when I was starting. Before I started driving over at Motor Mile Speedway [in Radford, Virginia], I would go over there, buy a pit pass, and watch things. I'd find out who the fastest guys were and who the champions were, then I would stand at different places around the track and see how those guys were driving the track. Then, I would go around to their pits and watch the different things that each driver and team were doing to prepare for the race. I did this for several weeks. They all had routines that they followed, and they weren't all the same."
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