Kligerman’s move to the Nationwide Series and Kyle Busch Motorsports left a vacant seat in the No. 7 Camping World Truck Series entry of Red Horse Racing. John Wes Townley was announced as the driver to fill the No. 7 truck seat, and he’ll bring his Zaxby’s sponsorship along with him.

Also announced by Red Horse on Tuesday was the hiring of Mike Beam to serve as crew chief for Townley and the No. 7 team.

The 2013 season will be KBM’s second year of full-time Nationwide Series competition. Car owner Kyle Busch and brother Kurt Busch shared seat time in the organization’s No. 54 in 2012. The team posted one win with Kurt Busch behind the wheel.

“When you think of Kyle Busch and Kyle Busch Motorsports, you think of an owner and a team that have established a tradition of winning and pride themselves on it, so I feel honored to be given the chance to come in and continue in that tradition,” Kligerman said.

Kligerman raced full-time in the Truck Series in 2012, starting the season with Brad Keselowski Racing and them moving to Red Horse Racing after losing his ride at BKR. Kligerman also has limited Nationwide experience. He has 18-career starts in the series, including three in 2012.

Meanwhile, Townley inherits a truck ride that claimed two race wins in 2012. John King and Kligerman each drove the No. 7 to victory lane this past season.

“I’m a competitive race car driver, and I want to race and compete for wins,” Townley said. “Red Horse Racing has worked hard and continues to excel in the Truck Series. The success that this Red Horse Racing organization was able to accomplish last season is the same success we are looking forward to next year.”

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“Fantastic truck,” DeLoach said after the race. “Parker did a fantastic job.”

Kligerman was pushed out to the lead on the final lap by a fellow-Toyota driver, Johnny Sauter.

“I don’t know what it is about these Toyota trucks, but you get them in the draft and they run,” Sauter said.

Sauter finished second.

Kligerman may have been near the front to take advantage of the push from Sauter on the final lap, but the final stages of the race weren’t exactly smooth sailing for the soon-to-be first-time winner.

“We fought everything possible you could fight today,” Kligerman said. “We had a vibration. Then, we had a battery go down.”

The battery issue resulted in a lengthy pit stop during a caution with about 18 laps to go that sent Kligerman back to the 21st spot on the restart that followed.

But Kligerman made his way to the front by the time a multi-truck, chain-reaction incident brought out the yellow flag on the last lap. The final-lap incident brought out the yellow flag for the seventh time in the race, and among those involved was Jason White, whose No. 23 truck ran near the front for most of the race.

Others collected in the wreck included Matt Crafton, Miguel Paludo, Justin Lofton, Ross Chastain and Rick Crawford, among others.

Championship contenders James Buescher and Ty Dillon finished third and fourth. Dillon then left Talladega with the same one point lead he held over second-place Buescher heading into the race.

Ryan Blaney rounded out the top-five. Timothy Peters finished sixth to give DeLoach two finishes inside the top-10 in his milestone race. Kurt Busch was seventh, Germain Quiroga eighth, Tim George Jr. ninth and Cale Gale was 10th.

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