Parker Kligerman celebrates with a burnout after winning Saturday’s ARCA Racing Series race at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Photo: ARCA Media
Parker Kligerman pulled off the perfect scorecard Saturday afternoon at New Jersey Motorsports Park, capped off with a big win in the ARCA Racing Series Twilight 150 at the Millville, New Jersey road course.
Kligerman, in the No. 22 Cunningham Motorsports Dodge, was fastest in both practice sessions, won the Menards Pole presented and earned his 10th career series victory, leading 56 of 67 laps en route to the winner’s circle.
“I’m on cloud nine,” Kligerman said. “This has been a banner day in my life and in my career. It’s been such a long drought for me…it feels so good to get back to victory lane. I feel especially good for Cunningham Motorsports. I wouldn’t be anywhere in this business without the Cunningham organization. They believed in me when no one else did. This win’s for them. I can’t thank car owners Kerry Scherer and Briggs Cunningham enough for this opportunity.”
It was the second consecutive series win for the 22 car, and second consecutive victory for the 22 at NJMP. It was also Cunningham Motorsports’ 30th career ARCA Racing Series victory overall. For Kligerman, it was a hometown win.
“I live three hours away…this is my home track. I love this place…love road course racing. I made my first ARCA start here. This truly is a wonderful day for me, personally.”
Kligerman gave up the lead just three times for 11 laps. Outside of that, the Westport, Connecticut driver was able to pull away as necessary throughout the 150-mile race before Tom Hessert took a run at the eventual winner late in the going. Hessert chopped two seconds off Kligerman’s four-second lead, en route to finishing second.
“Fortunately, we had a really good race car,” Hessert said. “I felt like we were running down Parker on fresher tires…just ran out of time. All in all, a really good day for Venturini Motorsports. The team has worked really hard over the last two weeks…I’m just proud to bring them home a good finish.”
Hessert battled back from a variety of issues all day, including an off-road excursion in practice that set the team back. As a result, Hessert’s team missed the “in-line” time for qualifying and had to start at the rear of the field.
“This Venturini team battled hard all day. We had a throttle issue early on and then I ran us off track in turn one in practice. We battled hard for this one…I’m calling this a great day.”
Dalton Sargeant finished third, fighting hard for every inch in his ARCA road course debut. Sargeant drove his car up to second inside of 10 laps remaining, but fell back to third in the end.
“I’m really pleased with everything overall,” Sargeant said. “Thanks to everyone at Venturini Motorsports. The main thing I learned today was to make as few mistakes as possible. Overall, it was a great learning day for me.”
Sargeant got off course early in the race, and had to battle back from a lap down.
“I burned my stuff up so bad getting back to the front. I feel like we fell off a ledge late in the going…slipping and sliding all over the place. If we could have gotten a late-race caution to let everything cool back, we might have been able to take a better run at it. I’m thankful…every week it gets better and better. It was a great day for Venturini Motorsports.”
Chase Briscoe finished fourth in his ARCA road course debut. David Levine, making his first ARCA start of the season, finished fifth.
Rookie Christopher Bell was in contention to challenge for the win late in the going before he got off-track on the final restart. Bell was running second when he and Josh Williams made contact in turn one. Williams motored on while Bell spun off course. Bell was able to get going again, but not before losing several positions.
Williams, Kyle Weatherman, Matt Kurzejewski, Steve Minghenelli and Bell rounded out the top ten.
Despite dominating the race, Kligerman said his win was in no way an easy feat. Hessert was clearly catching Kligerman over the final eight laps.
“It wasn’t easy out there at all today,” Kligerman added. “It was so hot inside the car. We went nearly 40 laps on that last set of tires. The General Tire held up well all day, but I know Tom (Hessert) had fresher tires. I wasn’t holding back. I was not conserving anything. We were going as hard as we could all day.”
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The ARCA Racing Series next to Pocono Raceway on Friday, June 3.
ARCA Racing Series
New Jersey Motorsports Park – Millville NJ
Twilight 150 – May 28, 2016
1. Parker Kligerman
2. Tom Hessert
3. Dalton Sargeant
4. Chase Briscoe
5. David Levine
6. Josh Williams
7. Kyle Weatherman
8. Matt Kurzejewski
9. Steve Minghenelli
10. Christopher Bell
11. Sheldon Creed
12. Bob Schacht
13. Ed Pompa
14. Dustin Knowles
15. Willie Mullins
16. Will Kimmel
17. Benny Chastain
18. Rick Clifton
19. Bo LeMastus
20. Brad Smith
21. Thomas Praytor
22. Mike Senica
23. Steve Fox
24. Con Nicolopoulos
25. Dale Matchett
26. Chase Storch
27. Wayne Peterson
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