It seems 23XI Racing has discovered the way forward for its group in Corey Heim.
On Sunday, the staff introduced that Heim has formally been signed by 23XI as a growth driver, with Heim slated to make a number of Cup and Xfinity Sequence begins in 2025. Heim’s first Cup Sequence begin of 2025 will come at Kansas Speedway, and his Xfinity Sequence begins will include Sam Hunt Racing in a 23XI-supported Toyota Supra.
Heim is among the brightest prospects in NASCAR in the meanwhile and is the favourite to win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence championship. He has gained 12 Xfinity Sequence races during the last 4 seasons, together with the 2025 season opener at Daytona.
Heim made three Cup Sequence begins in 2024, together with one with 23XI Racing at Nashville Superspeedway on June 30.
At World Extensive Know-how Raceway in June 2024, Heim and 23XI racing co-owner Denny Hamlin spoke to Yardbarker relating to their mutual respect.
“Lots of people know that rising up, Denny was my idol,” Heim said following his victory within the Truck Sequence race at Gateway on June 2. “It means the world to have grown up idolizing him, by no means understanding if I might make it to this degree, however right here I’m and I’ve received him as one among my finest supporters to date.”
“I definitely suppose (Corey Heim) is smart past his age,” Hamlin said when requested about Heim’s potential at World Extensive Know-how Raceway in June 2024. “To be simply 21 years previous, it is wonderful once you watch him race. He definitely has a vibrant future in our sport long run.”
Whereas 23XI at present has three very succesful Cup Sequence drivers in Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace and Riley Herbst, Heim may very well be the long-term future for a staff nonetheless trying to assert itself as a perennial Cup Sequence contender.
All quotations obtained firsthand except in any other case famous.
