COREY DAVID HEIM - 07/05/2002
Heim raced in Legends cars, winning the 2016 Young Lions division and the 2017 Thursday Thunder Pro division championship at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He later transitioned to running super late models, driving in events sanctioned by the CARS Tour, Southern Super Series, Pro All-Stars Series (PASS), and NASCAR Whelen All-American Series. Late in 2018, Heim crossed the finish line first in the ValleyStar Credit Union 300, but lost the race on a rules procedure. A short time later, he won his first CARS super late model race, at South Boston Speedway. Even after moving up to national touring series, Heim still raced at large late model events like Short Track Nationals. Heim began racing in the ARCA Menards Series in 2019. He joined Chad Bryant Racing to run 13 of 20 ARCA Menards Series events in the team's #22 car. He scored a top-five finish in his series debut, which came at Five Flags Speedway in March. Despite not running the full season, Heim ended up finishing 10th in the standings. Although he went winless, Heim never failed to finish any of his races, posted a
top five finish in eight of the 13 events, and scored a top 10 in all of them except for Nashville, where he finished 11th. On January 12, 2020, Heim announced a full-season CARS Late Model Stock Tour schedule with Lee Pulliam Performance. In January, it was announced that Heim would join Venturini Motorsports for seven total races: three in the ARCA Menards Series East, and two apiece in the ARCA Menards Series and the ARCA Menards Series West. Also in January, Heim won the SpeedFest 200 late model race in Georgia. In July of that same year, Heim placed fourth at Kansas Speedway in ARCA Menards Series competition after a flat tire dropped him from second on the final lap. In his return to Kansas in October, Heim led the most laps and won the race. In 2021, Heim was promoted to a full-time deal with Venturini, driving the #20
Legends race winner - Atlanta 2016
First CARS Series win - 2018 South Boston Spdwy
in the main ARCA Menards Series, replacing Chandler Smith. Heim would start the season with a win in the season-opener at Daytona. Two races later he won again at Talladega. Six races later; he won back-to-back at the big 2 1/2 mile track of Pocono, and then the 3/8 mile bullring of Elko Speedway. Before the season ended he would win at the road course of Watkins Glen and then on the mile dirt track at Springfield. It appeared Heim certainly had a handle on how to get around a wide variety of tracks. For the 20 race season he had six wins, 16 top five, and 20 top ten finishes. Along with the six wins he had four second place finishes. He also ran a hand full of NASCAR Truck races in 2021. It was revealed he would
make his Truck series debut driving the #51 for KBM at Darlington. He would finish 23rd after being wrecked from behind on a late race restart. In 2022 he split time between the ARCA Series and the Truck Series. He made seven starts in the ARCA cars, and won the season opening Arca race at Daytona. His only finish outside the top ten was when he was involved in an accident and finished 16th. He would win again at Kansas in September. He added two seconds and a third that year. In his Truck Series starts, he ran 16 of the 23 races. After being involved in a crash at Daytona, he finished 32nd. He bounced back and won his first NASCAR race at Atlanta making a daring last lap pass, as he swept around several cars on the last lap to win by inches. He would win again at St. Louis. For
First ARCA win - Daytona 2021
First Truck win - Atlanta 2022
the year he posted six top five and ten top ten finishes. Because he did not run a full-time schedule, he was ineligible for the playoffs. Heim finished the season 14th in points and won the 2022 Truck Series Rookie of the Year honors. In his first full season in the Truck series Heim saw some success in 2023. After moving from Kyle Busch Motorsports over to TRICON Garage he looked strong. He kicked off the year with an eighth place finish at Daytona, followed by a fourth at Las Vegas. A crash at Atlanta saw him finish 34th; but he came back strong with finishes of sixth at COTA and seventh at Texas. He finished 15th on the dirt a Bristol and broke through to get his first win of the year at Martinsville. The next 14 races saw him be dominant. All of those finishes saw him finish no worse
than eighth. He added two wins, three second place finishes and had ten Top 5’s. He easily advanced into the final race for the Championship and looked to be the truck to beat. At Phoenix, he won the pole and led 47 of the first 95 laps. Carson Hocevar was also in play to win the championship, along with Ben Rhodes and Grant Enfinger. Hocevar was in the top ten at the end of both stages as Heim won them. On lap 121 after a restart, with Heim leading, Hocevar tried to pass him on the inside going into turn one. His truck got loose and pushed up and spun
Truck series - Bristol dirt 2023
First Xfinity start - Dover 2023
Heim. Hocevar also spun and the crash collected Stewart Friesen who had also been running well. This put Heim and Hocevar at the back of the pack, and suddenly the battle was between Rhodes and Enfinger to see who won the Championship. Heim was fuming mad at Hocevar and as Carson made move to pass Heim, Corey put Hocevar into the outside wall and effectively ended both of their days with four laps to go. The intentional wreck stole a win from Zane Smith who had driven away from the rest of the field and looked to being cruising to the win. After this yellow; the Truck series drivers seemed to lose their minds. It was the worst display of driving in a long time. Three more yellows came out as NASCAR tried to get the
race concluded with it’s 2 lap over time shoot out. It took until lap 179 to see the checkers wave. Christian Eckes ended up winning the race, while Ben Rhodes won the Championship. Heim also made his first Xfinity start in 2023. He drove four races for Sam Hunt Racing, with his first start coming at Dover. He had an engine expire just 30 laps from the end, and finished 35. At Darlington, he made a great run and got his first career Top 10. Suspension issues relegated him to 37th at Pocono, but his final start, again at Darlington; saw him run well and finish 15th. Heim will be back with TRICON Garage for 2024.
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