Landon Cassill suggests NASCAR Truck drivers purposely wreck to avoid disqualification after Parker Kligerman Daytona incident

Former NASCAR driver Landon Cassill suggested Truck Series drivers should purposely get into a wreck to avoid being disqualified from a race. Cassill said this after learning that NASCAR disqualified Parker Kligerman from the Daytona race on Friday night.

“The penalty for finishing a NASCAR race with no damage is that you have to pass post race heights,” Cassill wrote on X/Twitter. “Drive it into the fence on the cooldown lap. It’s your only choice. I had no damage in New Hampshire, so they checked my heights: too low, DQ. Later I ran P4 at Phoenix, and made sure that didn’t happen again.”

NASCAR announced that Kligerman’s No. 75 truck from Henderson Motorsports was too low to the rear. Following the announcement, NASCAR declared Corey Heim the winner of the Fresh From Florida 250.

“Biggest win of my life,” Parker Kligerman posted to X/Twitter. “Thank you all for the wonderful messages. Over 700 texts. I will not be commenting any further until we are able to present what I believe is a very, very valid case.

“Until then, I’m fully focused on my job with [The CW Sports] and [NASCAR Xfinity Series] because the drivers and teams deserve the full focus on the massive stage ahead of them.”

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Corey Heim spoke to reporters after the race and expressed sympathy for Kligerman. “Well, it’s my first time having this kind of scenario happening either way, so certainly glad to be on the right side of it,” Heim said, per NASCAR.com. “It sucks for Parker and those guys.

“It seemed like they put themselves in a position at the right time to win the race, but obviously, there is another level to it after the race. Grateful to be in the spot to take advantage of that.”

Kligerman competed in his 117th Truck Series race on Friday. In 2023 and 2024, the 34-year-old competed in the Xfinity Series full-time, driving the No. 48 car for Big Machine Racing. Kligerman also covers NASCAR for The CW and co-hosts The Money Lap podcast with Landon Cassill.

Cassill last competed in a NASCAR race in 2022. In his Cup Series career, Cassill competed in 343 races and finished in the top 10 twice. While competing in the Xfinity Series, Cassill earned 22 top-10 finishes in 209 races.