Today marks one year since the death of NASCAR Jason Leffler in a sprint car crash in Chester, Pennsylvania. Leffler's death raised safety concerns about sprint cars, which were increased two months later when Tony Stewart was injured in a sprint car crash in Iowa, forcing him to miss the rest of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season.
Leffler began competing in the Cup series in 2001 with Chip Ganassi. He then went on to drive at Evernham Motorsports, Haas CNC Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing and some other teams. Leffler's last Cup start came three days before his death at Pocono in TriStar Motorsports' #19 car. Leffler's death came less than a month after the suicide of Dick Trickle, whose last Cup start came in 2002. This made for quite a bit of tragedy, although not as much as the death of Dale Earnhardt, whose death in 2001 is the most recent in any NASCAR top series.
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