8:04 AM Pacific Time/Washington State
6/13/2013
RIP Jason Leffler died
over night. For those of you not familiar with the name he was a Nationwide
Nascar Driver who drove the #38 for Great Clips and the #18 in the Camping
World Truck Series. I still do not know the details of the wreck but once its
on Youtube ill share it. With all the safety precautions that have went into
Nascar???? One NFL expert said the other day that NASCAR is safer than the NFL
and I truly believe that with all the great devices and restylings of the cars
and the new walls he must of hit something extremely hard because I dont know
of any track where someone would actually die at. There are some tracks without
safer barriers on the inside but I dont know yet ill post it when I see it.
8:09AM Pacific Time/Washington State
6/13/2013
This was the race and he
is the yellow sprint cup do not get it confused with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
its a different type of car and its a dirt track which is called a hometrack
they are not sanctioned to the same rules as NASCAR has. So if you look at this
video their is no safer barrier, the cars are shaped much differently they are
shaped for downforce and speed. Please keep your prayers and thoughts with
Jason Lefflers family. This is not the death video and because of the shape of
the track and where the wreck happened you probably wont ever see a death video
because there is no seating where the wreck happened.
8:21AM Pacific Time/Washington State
6/13/2013
The simple nature of the wreck was left rear blew out
sending him into the turn 4 wall and rolling down the straightaway 2-4 times.
BTW this is a typical type of wreck there is nothing strange about it other
than maybe it tweaked him the wrong way. Dale Earnhardt Sr's wreck was eerily
similiar in that Sterling Martin gave him just a little nudge and it just
turned Sr's car wrong and straight up head on into the wall. Nothing weird
nothing strange just a hard hit that broke his neck. BTW I remember Sr's wreck
like it was yesterday he was protecting Michael Waltrip who was in 1st and Dale
Earnhardt Jr. Who was in 2nd and Sr. was in 3rd. All 3 cars belonged to the
Earnhardt company and Sr. just wanted them to go at it as he had fought for
over 20 years to win the Daytona 500. It came out Michael Waltrip won that race
and it was one of the only times Michael Waltrip ever won. Sterling Martin was
a great driver up until that time and he started getting death threats. I
remember Jr. calling a news conference and telling everyone to leave Sterling
alone it was just good old hard fashioned racing.
Jason Lefflers Career Highlights:
Inducted into the National
Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2003
He had 18 national
championship midget car wins at the time of the presentation.
1997, 1998, 1999 USAC
National Midget champion
1998 USAC Silver Crown
champion
He did run the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400-One
and open wheel race and the other a NASCAR race.
NASCAR Level of Racing Statistics:
At the Sprint Cup Level of
racing he had 1 Top Ten and 1 Pole over 73 races and a 9 year run
His best year at the
Sprint Cup level was 37th in 2012
At the Nationwide Level of
racing he had 2 Wins 107 Top Tens and 8 Poles over 294 races and a 12 year run
Best year at the
Nationwide Level was 3rd in 2007 out of all the teams.
At the Camping World Truck
Level of racing he had 1 Win 35 Top Tens and 10 Poles over 56 races and 7 year
run
Best year in Camping World
Truck Series 2002 was his best year with a 4th place finish out of all the
teams.
In 2012 was his last year in that series he ended up 23rd of
all the teams
IndyCar Series Career:
He raced for Treadwell
Racing from 1999-2000
Best finish 30th in 2000
He had 0 Wins 0 Podiums
and 0 Poles
He did not make much into
a Indycar career.
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