Parker Kligerman announced on his podcast “The Money Lap” that he won’t be returning to Big Machine Racing for the 2025 Xfinity Series season and is done pursuing full-time rides at NASCAR.
Kligerman returned as a full-time competitor in 2023, after more than a decade of making sporadic starts for multiple teams across all three national touring levels. He finished the 2023 season 10th in the championship standings, with a career-high eight top-five finishes.
“It’s not a small decision and definitely didn’t happen overnight,” Kligerman said while explaining his decision to step away from full-time racing. “It was a lot of months of deliberating and thinking about it and going down one path and then another and going back and forth.
“There was one seminal moment back in June after the Portland race, we went to Sonoma for the next week because we all stay out there. I went for a run and ended up on top of the mountain overlooking the water in San Francisco and I had this moment where I was like, ‘I think I’m good. I think I want to finish this year out and then see what’s next.’
Kligerman noted that his end goal was to get to the Cup Series and it became apparent that wouldn’t be an opportunity that was going to present itself.
“I find myself saying, I feel like I’ve done this,” he said. “Not been nearly as successful as I’ve wanted to be. … “I think that started sitting in my mind a little bit. My focus has been trying to win races and fight for this championship with Big Machine Racing.”
With two races remaining in the regular season, Kligerman sits 11th on the playoff grid, 74 points above the elimination line.
