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[/media-credit]SRT Motorsports – RAM NCWTS Race Advance
Lucas Oil 200
Dover International Speedway
Friday, June 1, 2012
PARKER KLIGERMAN – No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM Crew Chief: Doug Randolph
Career Stats: Starts: 31 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 4 Top 10s: 11 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 31
2012 Season Stats: Starts: 5 Wins: 0 Top Fives: 0 Top 10s: 2 Poles: 0 Laps Led: 0
• Has two top-10 finishes in the first five races: ninth-place at Rockingham (N.C.) Speedway and eighth-place at Kansas Speedway.
• Fifth in the series championship standings, 30 points behind leader Justin Lofton and 12 behind fourth-place James Buescher. Only 14 points separate Kligerman from third-place Ty Dillon. Has gained one or more positions in the standings in four of five races.
• Is one of just six drivers to complete all 860 possible laps in the NCWTS this season.
• One previous NCWTS start at Dover came in 2011; he started ninth in the No. 29 Penske Truck Rental RAM and finished 21st.
• Both top 10-finishes this season came in superspeedway races.
• Average starting position is 14.8 while his average finish is 10.0.
RAM DRIVER QUOTES “I love Dover. The first time I went around it in our RAM we were P1 (position one) for a while (in practice). I’d never been there in my life and I took to it like a fish does to water. I think it’s the first place that I’ve ever gone in a stock car where I was like, whoa, that feels fast. It’s close to my heart because it’s one of two tracks that are kind of close to my home and you want to excel at one of your home venues. I think to run well there would be huge for myself. Hopefully we can go out there and have a great run. Those high banks, the way you drop into the corner and the unique banking angle just add to the challenge of racing at Dover.” — Parker Kligerman
DOVER INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY NUMBERS
• RAM has FOUR wins at Dover: Scott Riggs (2001), Ted Musgrave (2002), Jason Leffler (2003) and Chad Chaffin (2004).
• RAM drivers have finished 1-2 twice at Dover (2002 and 2003).
• RAM has TWO poles at Dover: Riggs (2001) and Bobby Hamilton (2003).
• The most RAM drivers to finish inside the top 10 at Dover are four (three times, most recently 2003).
• The most recent RAM driver to finish inside the top five is Jason White (fourth-place in 2009).
• RAM drivers have recorded nine top-five and 20 top-10 finishes in 12 previous races at Dover.
RAM IN THE CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES
• Bobby Hamilton (2004) and Ted Musgrave (2005) won the season championship driving a RAM.
• RAM has captured the manufacturer’s championship three times in the 17-year history of the series – 2001, 2003 and 2004.
• Tony Raines gave RAM its first win in the series in 1997, winning at I-70 Speedway in Odessa, Mo.
• RAM won 15 of the 24 NCWTS races during the 2001 season, 13 of 25 in 2003 and 11 of 25 in 2004.
• There have been 422 races in the NCWTS beginning at Phoenix International Raceway on Feb. 2, 1995. There were three RAM drivers – Joe Bessey, Bob Keselowski and Walker Evans – in the 33-truck starting field. Bessey scored a fourth-place finish while Mike Skinner took the win.
RAM TALK “The track itself at Dover stays very consistent. If you unload, work on your truck and get something pretty good you’re probably going to be pretty good the whole time you’re there, through the race runs and all that.” Doug Randolph, Crew Chief, No. 29 Cooper Standard RAM
