Jason Leffler, who raced out of Long Beach, Calif. until his demise in a sprint car crash at Bridgeport, N.J. in 2013, earned a trio of USAC National Midget Championships in 1997-98-99 and capped his USAC career with a 1998 USAC Silver Crown title. He won six Silver Crown races and captured 19 trophies in the National Midget series. A winner of the famed “Copper World Classic” at Arizona’s Phoenix International Raceway and a two-time winner of the Turkey Night Grand Prix at Gardena, California’s Ascot Park, he also won the famed Belleville Midget Nationals in 1997. Leffler also excelled in a variety of disciplines, including scoring victories in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series. In 2000 he competed in the Indianapolis 500. In 2003 he was inducted into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame.

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