Parker Kligerman Raise Awareness… Raise Money … Raise the Banner

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Parker Kligerman enters this weekend’s Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City with three goals: raise awareness, raise money and raise the banner. Kligerman’s No. 77 Camry will be outfitted with a special Kyle Busch Foundation “Project Pink: Protect Your Pair” paint scheme in an effort to raise awareness and money for Pretty In Pink – a Raleigh, N.C.- based foundation whose mission is to provide financial assistance to uninsured and underinsured breast cancer patients regardless of their ability to pay. The best way for the talented youngster to raise awareness for this great cause would be to pick up his first Nationwide Series victory and raise another banner inside Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM).

Kansas Speedway is a place where Kligerman already had one weekend he will never forget. In 2009, the then-19-year-old, won the ARCA Racing Series event on Thursday, leading 75 of 103 laps en route to his eighth victory of the season. What did he do for an encore? How about capture the pole for his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut on Saturday, ousting now-boss Kyle Busch by .05-seconds. The talented youngster led the field to the green flag and stayed out front for the first seven laps before surrendering the lead to Busch. The Connecticut native ended his debut with a respectable 16th-place finish.

 

Although the track has been repaved since his last visit, Kligerman feels that the speed his KBM team showed at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, another freshly paved intermediate track, will translate to speed on Saturday. At Michigan, crew chief Eric Phillips saw rain approaching on the radar and elected to roll the dice for track position in the closing laps. The move allowed the No. 77 Camry to get to the front of the field, and once there his young driver pulled away and had a 1.5-second lead when the rain never came and he had to pit for fuel after leading 13 laps.

 

Kligerman, who has ranked inside the top 10 in the Nationwide Series championship standings for all but two weeks this season, enters this weekend’s event with confidence from a track he has had success at, combined with the speed his No. 77 team has shown in recent weeks. Although he will already be a winner for the awareness and money his team will raise for Pretty In Pink by running a special paint scheme, the talented youngster will look to add to his already fond memories of Kansas Speedway on Saturday as he continues in his quest to raise his first banner inside the shop at KBM. 

 

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