{"id":151779,"date":"2025-09-18T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151779\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T03:05:08","slug":"corey-heim-needs-to-be-in-the-cup-series-full-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151779\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Heim Needs to Be in the Cup Series Full Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much-hyped NASCAR prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/tag\/Corey-Heim\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Heim<\/a> had his best NASCAR Cup Series run yet at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday (Sept. 14).<\/p>\n<p>He survived the tire craziness and carnage to place 23XI Racing\u2019s No. 67 car in sixth position, his first Top-10 effort in NASCAR\u2019s premier division.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/2025\/09\/14\/who-let-dogs-out-bristol\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"The Underdog House: Who Let the Dogs Out at Bristol?\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-bristol-ii-cup-zane-smith-nkp-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"#38: Zane Smith, Front Row Motorsports, Long John Silver's Ford Mustang\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Underdog House: Who Let the Dogs Out at Bristol?<\/p>\n<p>He is taking the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series field behind the woodshed this season as well, and it would be a travesty if he did not walk away with the championship.<\/p>\n<p>With all this in mind, one would think he\u2019s getting more than the occasional spot start in Cup, right? Right? <\/p>\n<p>Kevin Nix answers this week\u2019s question for NASCAR Mailbox on Frontstretch\u2019s YouTube Channel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontstretch-donate.avif\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Donate to Frontstretch\" class=\"wp-image-1366571\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/author\/kevinn\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150 perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"Kevin Nix\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kevin-Nix-150x150.jpg\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Nix has been with Frontstretch since February 2023. Hailing from Gilbert, Arizona, his dream is to be in the NASCAR media sphere full-time. He is a video assistant, working on the back end to streamline video and audio quality of all at-track interviews. Nix also writes about news every Monday for the site.<\/p>\n<p>Nix graduated with a Master&#8217;s Degree in Sports Journalism from ASU&#8217;s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, Arizona. He also has bachelor&#8217;s degrees in Communications and Political Science. In his downtime, he likes to read, play video games and take walks in the Arizona weather &#8211; when it&#8217;s not too hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much-hyped NASCAR prospect Corey Heim had his best NASCAR Cup Series run yet at Bristol Motor Speedway on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-151779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}