BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The $10,000-to-win Jason Leffler Memorial returns to the USAC NOS Power Drink Midget Nationwide Championship schedule on November 25 in a brand new location at Bakersfield Speedway at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway in California.
Again in October 1998, Leffler was victorious in a USAC Western States Midget occasion at Bakersfield Speedway in entrance of a stay nationwide viewers on ESPN2.
The eleventh working of the occasion, honoring the reminiscence of the four-time USAC nationwide driving champion, will resume after a one-year hiatus, and can now happen in Leffler’s dwelling state of California. The Jason Leffler Memorial had been beforehand held in Illinois at Wayne County Speedway and the Southern Illinois Heart.
“We began this race to honor Jason’s legacy and assist his son, Charlie,” mentioned Doug Stringer, the previous proprietor of Wayne County Speedway and promoter of the Jason Leffler Memorial. “It was nice to see it grow to be an enormous occasion on the midget racing panorama. Now, we will proceed that with an important occasion near his dwelling, and all of his household and associates can proceed that legacy.”
Leffler captured USAC Nationwide Midget titles in 1997-1998-1999 and in addition scored the 1998 USAC Silver Crown championship. Amongst his 19 profession USAC Nationwide Midget function wins are the 1997 Belleville Nationals, the 1997 Hut 100, the 1999 Copper World Basic, the 2002 Evening Earlier than the five hundred. and the 1999 & 2005 Turkey Evening Grand Prix.
In USAC Silver Crown competitors, Leffler amassed six victories, together with the 2000 Copper World Basic and the 2002 Hoosier Hundred. He additionally competed within the 2000 Indianapolis 500 and was a winner with the NASCAR Busch Collection and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection. He’s additionally an inductee of the Nationwide Midget Auto Racing Corridor of Fame and the USAC Corridor of Fame.
Earlier winners of the Jason Leffler Memorial embody Zach Daum (2013), Daryn Pittman (2014), Bryan Clauson (2015), Brady Bacon (2016), Tyler Thomas (2018), Tyler Courtney (2019), Tanner Thorson (2020 & 2023), Christopher Bell (2021) and Mitchel Moles (2022).
The 2025 version of the Jason Leffler Memorial shall be one in every of eight races on the USAC Nationwide Midget west coast swing late within the season in California: November 14-15 at Placerville Speedway; November 19 at TBA; November 21 at Thunderbowl Raceway; November 22-23 at Merced Speedway; November 25 at Bakersfield; and the finale on November 29, the Turkey Evening Grand Prix at Ventura Raceway.
