Heim, 21, at the moment competes full-time within the NASCAR Truck Sequence. He has seven profession wins there and made the Championship 4 final 12 months. The Georgia native additionally has ten NASCAR Xfinity begins, ending as excessive as fourth at Richmond Raceway earlier this 12 months.
The rising star within the Toyota camp joined Legacy Motor Membership as a reserve driver previous to the beginning of the 2024 season. When Erik Jones was sidelined with a compression fracture of a decrease vertebra following a 70G crash at Talladega Superspeedway, Heim was referred to as up as a fill-in driver whereas Jones recovered.
He made his debut at Dover Motor Speedway, qualifying thirty second and ending twenty fifth within the No. 43 LMC Toyota. Though Jones was cleared to race at Kansas, he and the group determined to sit down out the weekend out of an abundance of warning. Heim certified twentieth at Kansas and was going to complete contained in the top-20, however was spun out coming to the checkered flag and completed twenty second.
Jones returns to the seat this weekend, however Kansas won’t be Heim’s ultimate begin of the 12 months. 23XI Racing has introduced that they’re bringing again the No. 50 automobile for the Nashville race on June thirtieth with Heim behind the wheel. Mobil 1 will function the first sponsor.
This would be the fourth time 23XI Racing has entered a 3rd automobile into the identical race. They compete full-time with No. 23 of Bubba Wallace and the No. 45 of Tyler Reddick. They first ran a 3rd entry within the 2023 Daytona 500 the place Travis Pastrana made his Cup debut, ending eleventh. The automobile ran as soon as extra later that 12 months on the Indy RC with ex-F1 driver and 2021 Le Mans 24 general winner Kamui Kobayashi. The Japanese driver completed thirty third.
He returned in 2024 for the race at COTA, however the quantity was modified to the No. 50 in celebration of Mobil 1’s fiftieth anniversary. He completed twenty ninth.
