Parker Kligerman describes his feelings after coming up just short of a Round-of-8-clinching win at the Roval.
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00:00I might have teared up when I thought we got it there with the white flag and the caution comes out
00:04And then I had to refocus and and I was like hey
00:08I watched AJ in the cup race last year nail a bunch of whatever years it was nail restarts
00:13I was like if I want to be this level. I got a nail this restart and we did that
00:18And just I tried my I thought I'd cut off turn seven enough
00:23But he somehow got below me and then it was you know on from there
00:27Damage and it was full contact, you know, Sam didn't do anything egregious. It was hard racing
00:31But but as close as you could be to the line
00:35I'm just I want to I said I wanted to cry. I'm not gonna cry but I
00:40I
00:41Really love this game and I I just really really wanted that and I would have would have met the world
00:47But you know what it meant the world to be in that position and thank you to Scott Borschetta and everyone
00:51It's my course everyone to make this possible big machine racing, you know, they called the strategy
00:56I didn't agree with it
00:56I wanted to go for points, but they were right put us in the position to go and get that
01:00And God, I was driving my heart out for those that last run
01:03but I just I I need what ten five more feet or something, I don't know but
01:07and I think if it went green at the end we had it like we had him yeah built to the one and I
01:13I don't know. I I
01:16Don't know how to process this. It's gonna take a while
01:18but you know just really thankful to be in this to have the opportunity and
01:22God, I love this game. I just I want to get a trophy
01:24You and I talked yesterday about how much you love this and the pressure and rising up
01:29Let's talk about that five feet short
01:31And we're gonna we can show it to you on the monitor here if we can get our monitor over here to you
01:35It was it was very very tight. Oh, man. Oh
01:38My gosh, you're kidding me
01:40what I
01:44Don't know, you know, I've seen I've seen enough from the TV side, you know the what that you know, the heart wrench and and and
01:51Guttedness that these people go through and you're in that moment and that's part of this sport
01:55it's why people buy tickets and it's why they watch on the CW and I
02:00You know, I just I'm thankful to be in the position to have the opportunity in my life
02:04I've loved this so much and I I just really wanted to get to the next round but it's not to be so we'll go and
02:11try to get a checker flag on one of these next ones and
02:14You know be as fast as the Internet you're a lucky guy. We loved watching that today. What a fight from Parker Klugerman