Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

06/27/208

WERA racer Corey Baum completed his second WERA national race this last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite the raging heat soaring to over 115 degrees at times Baum managed to keep his focus and provide some results that surprised everyone.Baum managed to beat his personal best lap time this weekend by nearly 3 seconds, and put down an impressive 1:23.774. “Thanks to the support from my pit mates between races, I was able to beat the heat and focus on the races ahead.”

With some last minute cooling advice from Faron Krader at GixxerTek consulting, Baum managed to survive the weekend and keep his bike within optimum operating temp. “With Faron’s advice I was able to keep the bike cool, while the rest of the field was dealing with overheating issues, when the heat was at its hottest.”

Throughout the adverse racing conditions Baum managed to place; 4th in 750 Superbike, 6th in 750 Superstock, 5th in 600 Superbike, 7th in 600 Superstock.

Corey will be racing next at AutoClub Speedway (Fontana) on August 3rd. Be sure to check www.coreybaum.com for the latest results.

Corey would like to especially thank his friends and family for their outstanding support this weekend. “Everyone was so supportive, it was relieving to be able to put everything else aside and focus on racing” says Baum.

Corey would sincerely like to thank his sponsors for his success;

ClimaCover

Studio819

Dunlop

Paulsons Motorsports

Adrenaline Freaks

GixxerTek

Vortex

LeoVince

Lockhart Phillips

Kicker

Braking USA

PowerStands

Suomy USA

RMR Suspension

SharkSkinz

Tooele, UT

Miller Motorsports Park

6-8-08

Brandon Bones, Studio819

On Sat, 26 July 2008, I will be participating in the Seattle 100 Charity Event to help raise money for the Nephcure Foundation. The Nephcure Foundation was established to raise money for fight against kidney disease. This charitable event is held annually at Pacific Raceways in Kent, WA. Past participants have been many of the nations famous AMA superstar motorcycle racers: Ben Spies, Jake Holden, Jake Zemke, Aaron Yates, Jason DiSalvo, Josh Hayes, Aaron Gobert. This years guest stars will be Mat Mladin, Josh Hayes, Jake Holden & Danny Eslick will join the Seattle 100 participants, sign autographs, and lend support to this Northwest event now gaining national exposure. Last year saw this event raise over $145,000 for the fight against Kidney Disease. There will be over 100 participants, plus the guest stars, raising money for this charitable, tax deductible, event. Each participant in the event is required to generate a minimum level of donations, and must collect their donations prior to the event. Donations will benefit the not-for-profit NephCure Foundation (www.nephcure.org), an IRS approved 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the cause and cure of glomerular kidney disease. All donations payable to The NephCure Foundation are tax deductible. Please take a few minutes to review the attached flyer and visit http://seattle100.com/ for a bit of background information. If you are interested in donating to this worthy cause, please visit  http://www.active.com/donate/Seattle100/CoreyBaum2008 or contact me via email at corey.baum@comcast.net or call 360.485.2224. Thank you very much for all of your support, and I hope to see each and everyone of you at Pacific Raceways on July 26th.                      

This last week, April 1^st , 2^nd, and 3^rd I attended the 3-Day Jason Pridmores Star School at Thunderhill raceway located in Willows, CA. which consisted of a normal 2-day school and a 1-day Pro school that is only offered to previous students twice a year. During the two day school, Jason Pridmore and his instructors focused on teaching us a wide array of new techniques such as; advanced steering, shifting, and braking, body position, line selection, tire managements, suspension and chassis setup.

The School did an outstanding job in class of explaining how to perform these different techniques, and also backed up everything up with on track demonstrations and one on one help from the instructors. By practicing these new techniques I was quickly able to learn Thunderhill raceway. The benefits to my riding ability could be seen immediately. With every lap I found myself extending my brake markers, braking deeper and later than ever before and practicing my new techniques.  I am now consistently running faster, smoother laps while staying calm and focused.

The Star School Instructors did an excellent job from the class room to the race track. The School exceeded all of my expectations and maintained a successful learning environment. Jason's "No-Ego" personality was exhibited by himself and his entire staff which was beneficial in bringing the group together as a whole and putting everyone on the same level.

Thanks to all of my sponsors for your unparalleled support and providing me with this opportunity. This new found knowledge will continue to prove itself worthy in the upcoming races and throughout my entire racing career. My next race will be with WERA on April 12^th & 13^th at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Please be sure to check out my website www.coreybaum.com for the info.

Corey Baum

Baum scores podium on second time out in WERA races

Fontana, CA 1-13-08

by Brandon Bones, Studio819

California Speedway, yet another track in a long list that newcomer Corey Baum has yet to hit but still excels at. The 24 year old Lacey, WA resident struck out for gold in the California sun and hit pay dirt. In the Saturday practice Baum was plagued by clutch issues on his 05 GSXR 750 but after a late night rebuild took the reigns in 750 Superbike and pulled in his first National podium with a 3rd place finish astonishing pit mates and locals. Baum, riding on a near stock Suzuki surprised himself with his podium finish since he had never seen the track before. "I just went out there to to do the best I could and when I pitted in my pit mates were cheering for me and telling me I had taken 3rd in the race" says Baum, " I couldn't believe it!" With a full s chedule ahead at AMA tracks such as Infineon, Millers Motorsports Park and a return to California Speedway as well as a possible trip to Laguna Seca for the final AMA round of 2008, Baum is extremely excited to see what he can accomplish. "Corey has only been racing for 6 months and the majority of it has been just at local racing tracks here in Washington" said photographer and sponsor Brandon Bones of Studio819, "the sky is the limit for Corey, who knows what he could accomplish on updated equipment and such, I mean, do realize that Corey is besting folks on their home tracks with outdated equipment on his first showing at a track. We are more then happy to sponsor him, he really shows the level of excitement in racing both on and off the track." Baum is next scheduled to race at the next WERA round at LVMS as well as at Infineon with AFM, both in April.

Corey would like to thank his sponsors; Studio819, Climacover, Paulsons Motorsports, LeoVince USA, Kicker, Braking USA, PowerStands, Sidi, RMR Suspensions, Suomy, Lockhart Phillips, Freestyle watches, Shark Skinz, and Utopia Optics.

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Bones

Studio819 Photography

Update to come

Yeah, gonna be a great time.