Jason Charles Leffler (September 16, 1975 – June 12, 2013) was an American professional
open-wheel and
stock car racing
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driver. Leffler began racing in the open-wheel ranks, competing in the
2000 Indianapolis 500 before moving to primarily
NASCAR
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competition. He died from injuries sustained in a
410 sprint car race at
Bridgeport Speedway in
Bridgeport, New Jersey
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.
Racing career
Open wheel career
Leffler began his career racing
midget cars
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in the
USAC series, where he won three consecutive midget championships from 1997 and 1999, as well as the Silver Crown series championship in 1998. He was the third driver to win three consecutive midget car championships.
He won the
Hut Hundred and Belleville Nationals in 1997, and the
Turkey Night Grand Prix and Copper Classic in 1999.
He won his second Turkey Night Grand Prix in 2005.
Roger Penske
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met Leffler at the 1998 Hut 100. Leffler's success also caught the attention of
Joe Gibbs Racing
Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) is an American professional stock car racing organization owned and operated by former Washington Redskins (today the Washington Commanders) coach Joe Gibbs, which first started racing on the NASCAR circuit in 1991. His ...
, a team which had previously signed
Tony Stewart
Anthony Wayne Stewart (born May 20, 1971), nicknamed Smoke, is an American semi-retired professional stock car racing driver, current NASCAR team co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing, and current co-owner of the Superstar Racing Experience. He is ...
from the USAC ranks. Leffler joined the team in 1999 and made four starts in the
Busch Series
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during the season with moderate success. At the same time, he also started a race in the
Indy Racing League at
Walt Disney World Speedway in the No. 5
Treadway Racing machine, but finished last after crashing early in the race.
Leffler made his first, and only, start in the
Indianapolis 500
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in 2000. This effort was put forth by Treadway Racing with backing from
Roger Penske's United Auto group. Leffler qualified in the 17th position, which was also where he finished.
NASCAR career
During the 2000 season, Leffler drove full-time for the No. 18
MBNA sponsored Joe Gibbs Racing team in the Busch Series. He finished twentieth in the final standings, earned three pole positions during the year, and finished second at
Phoenix. He also made two IRL starts, among them a start for Treadway in the
Indianapolis 500
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where he started and finished seventeenth. After that season he moved up to the Winston Cup Series to become the driver of the #01 Cingular Wireless Dodge for
Chip Ganassi Racing
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as the permanent replacement for
Kenny Irwin Jr.
Kenneth Dale Irwin Jr. (August 5, 1969 – July 7, 2000) was an American stock car racing driver. He had driven in all three NASCAR national touring series, and had two total victories, both in the Craftsman Truck Series (today Camping World Truck ...
, who was killed in a practice crash while driving for the same team at New Hampshire in 2000. Leffler's car retained sponsorship from
BellSouth through its
Cingular Wireless
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property, and with Ganassi's purchase of a stake in
Felix Sabates' former team came a switch in manufacturer as Leffler became one of several drivers to drive
Dodge Intrepids in the brand's return to NASCAR. It was a controversial decision, as Leffler performed poorly the season prior in excellent Joe Gibbs equipment in the Busch series. During his inaugural Cup season, he had only one top 10 finish and four failures to qualify. He was, however, the inaugural pole setter at Kansas Speedway. After his 37th-place finish in the 2001 championship, Ganassi replaced him with
Jimmy Spencer for the 2002 season and remade Leffler's former car into the #41 Target Dodge.
Leffler joined
Ultra Motorsports in 2002 to drive the #2
Carquest
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/Team ASE
Dodge Ram in place of the departed
Scott Riggs and had great success early on with the team. In his first year, he tied a single season
Craftsman Truck Series
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record by scoring eight pole positions, and qualified no worse than eighth at any race during the season. Despite not winning a race, he had six second-place finishes and a fourth-place finish in the championship. He also won the
Night Before the 500 midget race and got to drive Ultra's #7 car in the final two races of the Cup Series season after the team fired
Casey Atwood. Leffler finally broke through in
2003
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when he scored his first career victory at
Dover
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.
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Despite the success, Leffler ended up losing his ride at Ultra in controversial fashion.
Haas CNC Racing, which was fielding its first full-time Cup Series team, had fired its driver
Jack Sprague
Jack Sprague (born August 8, 1964) is an American former stock car racing driver who has competed in all of NASCAR's three top divisions, most notably in the Craftsman Truck Series, where he won series championships in 1997, 1999 and 2001.
Raci ...
after the
Tropicana 400. Team owner Gene Haas named
John Andretti as his replacement, but he was unavailable for the
Brickyard 400
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due to a prior commitment with
Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
Dale Earnhardt, Inc. (DEI) was a race team founded by Dale Earnhardt and his wife, Teresa Earnhardt, to compete in the NASCAR series, the highest level of competition for professional stock car racing in the United States. From 1998 to 2009, th ...
Haas approached Leffler to drive the #0
NetZero Pontiac Grand Prix
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First introduced as a full-size performance coupe for the 1962 model year, the model varie ...
in the race and he agreed to do so. Ultra, which had warned Leffler that such a move would be in violation of his contract, responded by firing him.
Leffler made ten starts in the #0, becoming the permanent driver after the
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. The team then signed
Ward Burton away from
Bill Davis Racing to take over the car, and he joined the team before the season was over to get a head start. Leffler was moved to the #00
Haas Automation car in the Busch Series for the remainder of 2003, with the idea that he would remain there for 2004. At
Nashville Superspeedway in 2004, Leffler scored his first career
Busch Series
The NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) is a stock car racing series organized by NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's second-tier circuit to the organization's top level Cup Series. NXS events are frequently held as a support race on the day prior to a ...
victory. He also was involved in a controversial finish at the Winn-Dixie 250; he was penalized by NASCAR for "over-aggressive driving" on the final lap, that saw
Michael Waltrip
Michael Curtis Waltrip (born April 30, 1963) is an American former professional stock car racing driver, racing commentator, and published author. He competes full time in the Camping World Superstar Racing Experience. He is the younger brother ...
get spun, and then
Dale Earnhardt Jr. get wrecked, both by Leffler. He was running third in the points when the team released him from his contract. He ended up finishing twelfth in the championship despite missing the last seven races.
Shortly after his dismissal, Leffler signed a deal to re-join Joe Gibbs Racing for 2005, taking over a newly created Cup team sponsored by
FedEx
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. The No. 11 Chevrolet was regularly outside of the top 35 in points, meaning that it was not guaranteed a starting spot for all races; Leffler was unable to qualify for the
Coca-Cola 600 because of it. He was replaced by
Terry Labonte
Terrance Lee Labonte (born November 16, 1956), nicknamed Texas Terry or The Iceman, is an American former stock car driver who raced from 1978 to 2014 in the former NASCAR Winston Cup and Sprint Cup Series (now called the NASCAR Cup Series). A tw ...
for the two road-course races and, eventually, was fired from JGR after nineteen starts in which he failed to record a top ten finish. He was replaced by a mix of Labonte and JGR developmental drivers
J. J. Yeley
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and
Denny Hamlin, the latter of whom took over the car full-time the following season.
While racing with Gibbs, Leffler briefly raced with Braun Racing in the Busch Series, a team that had lost their regular driver,
Shane Hmiel
Shane Riley Hmiel (born May 15, 1980) is an American former racecar driver, who competed in all three of NASCAR's national series. Hmiel's controversial stock car career, marred by accidents from his aggressive driving style, ended in 2006 after ...
, to a drug suspension. After leaving Gibbs, Leffler joined Braun Racing on a full-time basis for the remainder of the season. Leffler had scored four top ten finishes with Braun in nine starts for the team.
For the 2006 season, Leffler was signed to return to
Braun Racing
Braun Motorsports, formerly known as Braun Racing, was an American professional stock car racing team that last competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. The team is based in Mooresville, North Carolina. Best known as one of the top ...
to drive the No. 32 Chevrolet. The team carried sponsorships from
Lucas Oil
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,
Fraternal Order of Eagles
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, and
ABF U-Pack Moving. The No. 32 team became the No. 38 team with sponsorship from Great Clips after it merged with
Akins Motorsports
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. Jason also attempted to qualify for the second to last race of the chase at
Phoenix
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* Phoenix (mythology), a legendary bird from ancient Greek folklore
* Phoenix, Arizona, a city in the United States
Phoenix may also refer to:
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Greek mythological figures
* Phoenix (son of Amyntor), a ...
in the No. 71 for
Braun Racing
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but failed to qualify. He also owned the 2006 USAC Silver Crown championship team.
![JasonLefflerToyotaMilwaukeeMile2009](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/JasonLefflerToyotaMilwaukeeMile2009.jpg)
During the 2007 season, Leffler won the pole for the
Winn-Dixie 250
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at
Daytona International Speedway
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. He finished ninth. Leffler would make
NASCAR
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history on July 28, 2007 as he passed
Greg Biffle with two laps remaining to win the Busch Series
Kroger 200 at
O'Reilly Raceway Park
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. The win marked the first race victory for a
Toyota Camry
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in Busch Series competition, and the first win for a foreign manufacturer in a top-tier
NASCAR
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series since Al Keller won in a Jaguar in 1954. The win also marked Leffler's second career
Busch Series
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win and first win since the 2004 season. Leffler returned to Sprint Cup in 2008 for a few races in the No. 70 Haas CNC Chevy while driving full-time for Braun Racing's No. 38 Toyota Camry.
In 2009 at the July Daytona race weekend it was announced that the No. 38
Toyota
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car would be shared with
Kasey Kahne
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for the
2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series season. Leffler remained in the Great Clips Toyota in 2010 and 2011. In late 2011 he was informed that he was free to pursue other opportunities for the 2012 season. During the second-to-last race of the
2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series season at
Phoenix International Raceway, Leffler was racing with
Elliott Sadler
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, who was 17 points back of first place in the standings coming into the race, and
Aric Almirola for 10th when Leffler bumped into the rear bumper of Sadler in turn 3 turning Sadler around and collecting himself, Almirola,
Jeremy Clements
Jeremy Wayne Clements (born January 16, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He is the son of Tony Clements, owner of Clements Racing Engines. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 51 Chevrole ...
, and
Morgan Shepherd
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. The wreck ended up costing Sadler the championship as Sadler lost the championship by 45 points to
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Leffler in his interview took full responsibility for what happened between him and Sadler saying that it was his own fault.
On January 9, 2012,
Kyle Busch Motorsports
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announced that Leffler would drive the No. 18 truck for fourteen races with sponsorship from
Dollar General. However, strings of bad luck and poor finishes plagued the team, and Leffler was released on August 14.
Leffler also returned to the Cup Series in 2012, driving for
Robinson-Blakeney Racing
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at
Watkins Glen International
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, and for
Humphrey Smith Racing at
Michigan International Speedway
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.
Leffler made a single Cup Series start in 2013, driving Humphrey Smith Racing's No. 19
Toyota Camry
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at
Pocono Raceway
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in early June, three days before his death; he
started and parked, finishing 43rd in the event.
Death
On June 12, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Leffler was involved in a crash during a 410
sprint car
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heat race
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at the
Bridgeport Speedway in
Logan Township, New Jersey
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Logan Town ...
. Running second with a few laps left, his car suffered a front suspension failure, causing it to crash into a wall and flip several times.
Leffler instantly lost consciousness in the accident. When it was found that Leffler was not breathing, the rest of the race was cancelled and victory lane ceremonies did not take place. He was transported by ambulance to
Crozer-Chester Medical Center
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History
In 1893, the 48-bed Chester Hospital opened to serve the growing pop ...
in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he was pronounced dead at 9:00 PM
EDT, 30 minutes after the accident. An autopsy report stated that the cause of death was a severe
blunt force
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neck and backbone injury.
After his death, many drivers and racing associations such as
NASCAR
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and
IndyCar made statements on the death and gave their condolences. NASCAR drivers competing in the
2013 Quicken Loans 400 had special stickers placed on their cars in honor of Leffler. Denny Hamlin, who replaced Leffler in the
No. 11 FedEx Toyota in late 2005 had his car repainted to resemble Leffler's livery.
Personal life
Leffler was the son of Charles and Patricia Leffler. Leffler had a son with Alison East, Charlie Dean, who was five years old at the time of his father's death. He shared his life with live-in girlfriend Julianna Patterson; they resided in
North Carolina
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and were engaged at the time of his death.
Career awards
Leffler was inducted into the
National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame
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Sun Prairie is a city in Dane County in the U.S. state of Wi ...
in 2003.
He had 19 USAC national championship midget car wins at that time.
He was inducted in the USAC Hall of Fame in 2018.
He also had six USAC Silver Crown wins.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
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Nationwide Series
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ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series
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IndyCar Series
Images
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in 2012
See also
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Driver deaths in motorsport
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List of people from Long Beach, California
References
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1975 births
2013 deaths
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Racing drivers from California
Indianapolis 500 drivers
NASCAR drivers
IndyCar Series drivers
Racing drivers who died while racing
Sports deaths in New Jersey
Burials in North Carolina
ARCA Menards Series drivers
Chip Ganassi Racing drivers
Joe Gibbs Racing drivers
Stewart-Haas Racing drivers
USAC Silver Crown Series drivers
Kyle Busch Motorsports drivers