• Saturday’s O’REILLY AUTO PARTS 150 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
WINNER: PARKER KLIGERMAN
Parker Kligerman may be a popular television race commentator but the 31-year old Connecticut driver reminded the NASCAR world that he is first, a race car driver, winning Saturday’s Inaugural O’Reilly Auto Parts 150 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in a highly spirited final-laps battle with Zane Smith.
Kligerman held off the three-time race winner Smith – the two crossing the line side-by-side with Kligerman’s No. 75 Henderson Racing Chevrolet taking a .119-second margin of victory in a race that concluded with all the drama expected of a road course event.
Smith – who won at Circuit of the Americas and finished runner-up at both Sonoma, Calif. and Mid-Ohio – takes a great “consolation prize” with his second-place finish Saturday. He heads into the regular season finale in two weeks now only two points away from earning the 2022 regular season Camping World Truck Series championship.
The victory was the third career series win for Kligerman and first since 2017. He became the series’ 17th consecutive different winner on a road course.
The regular season concludes July 23 at Pocono (Ra.) Raceway with the CRC Brakeleen 150. The top 10 drivers in the standings will contend in a seven-race Playoff to determine the 2022 Camping World Truck Series champion.