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Jason Charles Leffler, nicknamed, 'Left-turn', (September 16, 1975 – June 12, 2013) was an American professional open-wheel and stock car racing driver. Leffler began racing in the open-wheel ranks, competing in the 2000 Indianapolis 500 before moving to primarily NASCAR competition. He died from injuries sustained in a 410 sprint car race at Bridgeport Speedway in Bridgeport, New Jersey.

• 1Racing career
• 5Motorsports career results
  • 5.1NASCAR
    • 5.1.1Sprint Cup Series
  • 5.3American open-wheel racing

Racing career[edit]

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Open wheel career[edit]

Leffler began his career racing midget cars 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.^[1] He won the Hut Hundred and Belleville Nationals in 1997, and the Turkey Night Grand Prix and Copper Classic in 1999.^[1] He won his second Turkey Night Grand Prix in 2005.

Roger Penske met Leffler at the 1998 Hut 100. Leffler's success also caught the attention of Joe Gibbs Racing, a team which had previously signed Tony Stewart from the USAC ranks. Leffler joined the team in 1999 and made four starts in the Busch Series 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 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[edit]

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 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 as the permanent replacement for Kenny Irwin, Jr., 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 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/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 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 when he scored his first career victory at Dover.

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 after the Tropicana 400. Team owner Gene Haas named John Andretti as his replacement, but he was unavailable for the Brickyard 400 due to a prior commitment with Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Haas approached Leffler to drive the #0 NetZeroPontiac Grand Prix 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 Sirius Satellite Radio at the Glen. 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 victory. 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. 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 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 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, 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 to drive the No. 32 Chevrolet. The team carried sponsorships from Lucas Oil, Fraternal Order of Eagles, 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. Jason also attempted to qualify for the second to last race of the chase at Phoenix in the No. 71 for Braun Racing but failed to qualify.

During the 2007 season, Leffler won the pole for the Winn-Dixie 250 at Daytona International Speedway. He finished ninth. Leffler would make NASCAR history July 28, 2007 as he passed Greg Biffle with two laps remaining to win the Busch Series Kroger 200 at O'Reilly Raceway Park. The win marked the first race victory for a Toyota Camry in Busch Series competition, and the first win for a foreign manufacturer in a top-tier NASCAR series since Al Keller won in a Jaguar in 1954. The win also marked Leffler's second career Busch Series 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 car would be shared with Kasey Kahne 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.

On January 9, 2012, Kyle Busch Motorsports announced that Leffler would drive the No. 18 truck for fourteen races with sponsorship from Dollar General.^[2] However, strings of bad luck and poor finishes plagued the team, and Leffler was released on August 14.^[3]

Leffler also returned to the Cup Series in 2012, driving for Robinson-Blakeney Racing at Watkins Glen International,^[4] and for Humphrey Smith Racing at Michigan International Speedway.^[5]

Leffler made a single Cup Series start in 2013, driving Humphrey Smith Racing's No. 19 Toyota Camry at Pocono Raceway in early June, three days before his death; he started and parked, finishing 43rd in the event.^[6]

Death[edit]

On June 12, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Leffler was involved in a crash during a 410 sprint carheat race at the ⁵⁄₈-mile (1.0 km) Bridgeport Speedway in Logan Township, New Jersey.^[7] 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.^[8]

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 airlifted by helicopter to Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Chester, Pennsylvania,^[9] where he was pronounced dead at 9:00 PM EDT, 30 minutes after the accident.^[10] An autopsy report stated that the cause of death was a severe blunt force neck and backbone injury.^[11]

After his death, many drivers and racing associations such as NASCAR 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.^[12]

Personal life[edit]

Leffler was the son of Charles and Patricia Leffler. Leffler had a son, Charlie Dean, with Alison East, who was five years old at the time of his death. He shared his life with live-in girlfriend Julianna Patterson;^[13] they resided in North Carolina. Leffler was engaged at the time of his death to Julianna Patterson.

Career awards[edit]

Leffler was inducted into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2003. He had 18 national championship midget car wins at that time.^[1]

Motorsports career results[edit]

NASCAR[edit]

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Sprint Cup Series[edit]

Daytona 500[edit]

Nationwide Series[edit]

Camping World Truck Series[edit]

¹ Ineligible for series points

ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series[edit]

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

American open-wheel racing[edit]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

IndyCar Series[edit]

Images[edit]

• 2010 Nationwide No. 38

• Racing at the 2011 Nationwide race at Road America

• At Rockingham Speedway in 2012

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abc'Biography'. WorthyOfHonor.com. National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2018.Cite uses deprecated parameter deadurl= (help)
2. ^'Leffler joins Kyle Busch's truck team'. Fox Sports. January 9, 2012. Archived from the original on January 13, 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-10.Cite uses deprecated parameter deadurl= (help); Cite web requires website= (help)
3. ^Pistone, Pete (August 14, 2012). 'Jason Leffler out at Kyle Busch Motorsports'. Eye on NASCAR. CBS Sports. Archived from the original on November 15, 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-15.Cite uses deprecated parameter deadurl= (help)
4. ^Marquart, Chris (August 11, 2012). 'Watkins Glen Notebook: Montoya will start first in Finger Lakes 355 at The Glen'. Finger Lakes Times. Geneva, NY. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
5. ^Pistone, Pete (August 14, 2012). 'Michigan entry list features 45 drivers'. Eye on NASCAR. CBS Sports. Archived from the original on November 15, 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-15.Cite uses deprecated parameter deadurl= (help)
6. ^'Jason Leffler – 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Results'. Racing-Reference. USA Today Sports Media Group. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
7. ^'Leffler remembered as friend, teammate, father'. Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. June 13, 2013. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.Cite uses deprecated parameter deadurl= (help)
8. ^Gluck, Jeff (June 21, 2013). 'Police say mechanical failure caused Leffler's crash'. USA Today. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
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   • Utter, Jim (June 13, 2013). 'NASCAR driver Jason Leffler dies after accident in dirt car event'. WCNC-TV. Charlotte, North Carolina. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.Cite uses deprecated parameter dead-url= (help)
   • Ryan, Nate; Jeff Gluck (June 13, 2013). 'NASCAR's Jason Leffler dead after dirt track crash'. USA Today. Tysons Corner, Virginia. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
   • Boren, Cindy (June 13, 2013). 'NASCAR driver Jason Leffler killed in race'. The Washington Post. Washington, DC. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
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    • 'Leffler Dies After Accident in Dirt Car Event'. ABC News. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
    • 'NASCAR driver Jason Leffler dies from injuries sustained in crash'. UPI. 12 June 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
11. ^Gluck, Jeff (June 14, 2013). 'Autopsy reveals Jason Leffler's cause of death'. USA Today. Tysons Corner, Virginia. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
12. ^'No. 11 car a tribute to Jason Leffler'. ESPN. Associated Press. June 2013.
13. ^'Girlfriend of dead NASCAR driver defends steps he took for young son after ex-wife's family claims he 'didn't really leave anything' for the boy'. DailyMail.co.uk. Retrieved January 22, 2018.

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Jason Leffler driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Jason Leffler at Find a Grave

Jason Keller (born April 23, 1970) is an American professional stock car racing driver. Previously, he was a mainstay in NASCAR's second-tier series, competing in 519 Nationwide Series races between 1991 and 2010. On May 15, 2010, Keller made his 500th career start, the first driver in series history to do so.^[1]

• 1Racing career
• 2Motorsports career results
  • 2.1NASCAR

Racing career[edit]

Early career[edit]

Keller was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and began his racing career on kart tracks, moving up to Late-Model Sportsman dirt-track racing at the age of 16. He drove the #57 Chevy owned by Jack Finley of Easley, South Carolina.

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Keller made his Busch series debut in the 1991 May race at Lanier Speedway. He piloted the #54 Air Products Buick home in 29th after starting 8th.

Air Products would sponsor his family-owned team from 1991 to 1994, during that time using the numbers 54 and 45, before finally settling on the #57, a number Jason would use until the end of the 2003 season. Keller grabbed his first top-10 finish in his 7th start at the North Carolina Speedway in February 1993.

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His first top-5 would come one year later in the fall race of 1994 at Dover Downs. 1994 would be his first full season, and he finished 17th that year in the points. He did miss a race that season, but up to December 1, 2005, Keller has not missed one since. He won three poles in 1994, his first career coming at Rougemont.

In 1995, Keller received backing from Budget Gourmet, and rewarded them by finishing 4th place in the standings. His first career win occurred in August, as he outpaced the field at Indianapolis Raceway Park. In addition, Keller had 6 top-5s and 12 top-10s that season.

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Slim Jim came on board for the 1996 season. Keller secured another top-10 finish in points (6th) with a 10 top-10s season.

Keller struggled through 1997 and 1998, finishing 13th and 16th in the points respective years. He only had 4 top 5s and 17 top 10s in those two years. In 1998, Keller's family owned team had no decals on the car, and that forced the team to sell to the newly formed ppc Racing team.

Breakout[edit]

In 1999, with sponsorship from IGA, Keller won 3 poles (Spring Bristol, IRP, Richmond spring) and 2 wins at Bristol Motor Speedway (spring) and IRP. With 5 top 5s and 12 top 10s, Keller came home 8th in the standings.

In 2000, Keller's ppc team received funding from Excedrin. This began to this date, Keller's best streak in his career. In four years (2000–2003), Keller wrapped up 7 wins (one at Dover, two at Nazareth, one at Rockingham, one at Richmond, one at Milwaukee, and one at Talladega.) He won 4 BUSCH poles, and finished 2nd twice in the standings (2000 and 2002), 3rd (2001), and 5th (2003).

Keller has run 2 races in the Cup Series. In 2003, he drove the No. 01 U.S. Army for MB2/MBV Motorsports Pontiac home 32nd in the spring Richmond race, subbing for the just injured Jerry Nadeau, and 26th in the fall Talladega race in the No. 1 for DEI.

The No. 57 team lost Albertsons sponsorship at the end of 2003, and Miller High Life came on board, changing the team's number to 22. Keller had 6 top-5s and 12 top-10s in the year, finishing 6th in 2004.

Later career[edit]

In 2005, again without sponsorship, Keller left ppc Racing, and headed towards Team Rensi Motorsports's second operation sponsored by McDonald's. They struggled all year. Despite a 9th-place finish in points, Keller was never competitive. He only had 1 top-5 all year (Talladega) and 6 top-10s. Keller signed with Phoenix Racing for 2006, but was released after just eight races.

Keller was consistent in the first eight races. He ran the No. 1 Miccosukee Dodge to a best finish of 11th at Daytona, but he was running 12th in points after the eighth race of the year. However, on April 18, 2006, Keller was released from the team in what many viewed as a 'cheap shot' from Finch. He was replaced by Mike Wallace. Keller would then try to race the No. 34 Frank Cicci Racing Chevy at Richmond, but he did not qualify and declined further rides with the team. Instead, Brewco Motorsports hired Keller to qualify and practice Greg Biffle's No. 66 Ford for select races when Biffle was working on his Nextel Cup Series team. Keller did a good job, and Brewco rewarded Keller with a race at ORP. Keller ran in the top-five for the first half of his 400th career start, but a mid race spin dropped Keller to 15th in the rundown. Keller will drive part-time for Brewco Motorsports, sharing their No. 27 with NEXTEL Cup driver Ward Burton, as well as a part-time schedule for CJM Racing. On October 12, 2007, Keller broke Tommy Houston's record for most career starts in the Busch Series with his 418th appearance. He also holds the record for most Busch Series earnings with over $11M (USD).

In 2008 Keller drove for CJM Racing in their No. 11 Chevrolet in the Nationwide Series full-time with sponsorship from America's Incredible Pizza Company. Keller tested the No. 98 for then-Evernham Motorsports at Daytona Preseason Thunder Testing. Keller was released from CJM Racing in September during the off week after the fall Richmond race and replaced by Scott Lagasse Jr., with AIPC citing that they wanted to take the company in a new direction. He then signed with Baker Curb Racing to drive the No. 27 Ford Fusion through the rest of 2008 and 2009.^[2] For 2010, Keller drove for TriStar Motorsports in the No. 35, though the team had to get by with little to no sponsorship. Although he did not qualify for several races early in the season, by mid-year he had raced his way into the top-30 in owner's points, locking him into the remainder of the races. His best finish in 2010 was 4th at Talladega. Keller did not return to the team in 2011, and Mike Bliss took this place in the renumbered No. 19. His 2010 teammate Tony Raines was also replaced by Eric McClure, who brought sponsorship to the team. In November 2011, Kenny Wallace surpassed Keller in the record books when he made his 520th Nationwide Series start, most all-time.

Motorsports career results[edit]

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NASCAR[edit]

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Winston Cup Series[edit]

Nationwide Series[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Nationwide Series at a crossroads - ESPN.com, 7/8/09.
2. ^Baker Curb Racing newcomer Keller just glad to be working
3. ^'Jason Keller – 1991 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
4. ^'Jason Keller – 1992 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
5. ^'Jason Keller – 1993 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
6. ^'Jason Keller – 1994 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
7. ^'Jason Keller – 1995 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
8. ^'Jason Keller – 1996 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
9. ^'Jason Keller – 1997 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
10. ^'Jason Keller – 1998 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
11. ^'Jason Keller – 1999 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
12. ^'Jason Keller – 2000 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
13. ^'Jason Keller – 2001 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
14. ^'Jason Keller – 2002 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
15. ^'Jason Keller – 2003 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
16. ^'Jason Keller – 2004 NASCAR Busch Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
17. ^'Jason Keller – 2005 NASCAR Busch Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
18. ^'Jason Keller – 2006 NASCAR Busch Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
19. ^'Jason Keller – 2007 NASCAR Busch Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
20. ^'Jason Keller – 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
21. ^'Jason Keller – 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
22. ^'Jason Keller – 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results'. Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 31, 2015.

External links[edit]

• Jason Keller driver statistics at Racing-Reference