In June, fresh off of an eighth-place finish in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Portland International Raceway, Parker Kligerman went for a run in the mountains. He’d spent years chasing the top levels of motorsport, reaching them, falling out of them, then climbing them again. During that time, he’d have waves of emotions about how his driving career would end. When morale was low, he’d think: “Damn it, you probably should stop chasing this.”
But it wasn’t until this year, amid a steady Xfinity Series career and a top-10 run in the series championship, that Kligerman reached the top of that mountain and had a moment of clarity.
