Parker Kligerman Dream Week

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The next seven days will be a dream week for Parker Kligerman. The talented youngster will be pulling double duty at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, running the O’Reilly Challenge NASCAR Nationwide Series event on Saturday in his No. 77 ToyotaDreamBuild.com Camry for Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) and making his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut on Sunday in the Swan Racing No. 30 Camry. Monday, the 23-year-old will head to Las Vegas, Nev. for the SEMA Show, where his CamRally will be on display as part of the Toyota Dream Build Challenge and the winner of the competition will be revealed next Tuesday.

In his first full season in NASCAR’s second division Kligerman has collected three top-five and 12 top-10 finishes and ranked inside the top 10 in the championship standings for 28 of the 30 weeks. The Connecticut native has held the 10th position for 14 straight weeks, but in recent weeks has closed the gap on Kyle Larson for ninth. When the series left Richmond (Va.) International Raceway, Larson held a 67 point cushion in the battle for the ninth spot, but over the past five races KBM’s talented wheelman has mounted a ‘rally’ thanks in part to four top-10 finishes and has closed the gap to just 17 points with three races remaining.

 

The No. 77 team with Kligerman behind the wheel heads to Texas Motor Speedway, a track which he dubs as one of his favorites, which is probably because of his success at the 1.5-mile oval in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. In five Truck Series starts in the Lone Star State, he collected two top-five and four top-10 finishes. In last November’s event in NASCAR’s third division, the Toyota driver started from the 10th position, made his way to the front for 16 laps before being passed by eventual race winner Johnny Sauter with 11 circuits remaining and ended up with a runner-up finish.

 

The talented youngster hopes that he can add another historic occasion to his “Dream Week” and bring home his first career Nationwide Series win on Saturday. If Kligerman can do that, it will most certainly help as he continues to ‘rally’ his way towards ninth-place in the championship standings.

 

KBM PR

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