Jason Leffler News

Leffler in the Indy 500?

Leffler in the Indy 500?

January 21, 2001
Leffler in the Indy 500? Jason Leffler doubts he will run the Indy 500 this year as he wants to concentrate on his new #01 Ganassi Racing Winston Cup ride - per TNN's Raceday(1-21-2001) (1-20-2001)

Leffler to Cup – #01 Driver…for 2002 UPDATE 4 – make that 2001:

Leffler to Cup – #01 Driver…for 2002 UPDATE 4 – make that 2001:

January 15, 2001
BGN driver Jason Leffler confirmed Friday night that he will take over the driving duties of the #01 Dodges for Chip Ganassi Racing in the Winston Cup series beginning with the 2002 season. Leffler has agreed to a three-year deal, but will complete the 2001 BGN series

#01 Driver…for 2002 UPDATE 7 Leffler is it:

#01 Driver…for 2002 UPDATE 7 Leffler is it:

January 15, 2001
#01 Driver...for 2002 UPDATE 7 Leffler is it: BGN driver Jason Leffler confirmed Friday night that he will take over the driving duties of the #01 Dodges for Chip Ganassi Racing in the Winston Cup series beginning with the 2002 season. Leffler has agreed to a three

Talladega Testing:

Talladega Testing:

December 21, 2000
Talladega Testing: Fourteen BGN teams were at Talladega this past Monday for a closed session to experiment with recent changes in cylinder heads and engine compression ratio. The teams got about a 1-hour late start on the session, then drove through the rapidly plunging

Gibbs Info UPDATE:

Gibbs Info UPDATE:

December 13, 2000
Gibbs Info UPDATE: Doug Richert has been placed in a team manager role for both Gibbs BGN teams(#4 and #18) in addition to his crew chief role for Jeff Purvis on the #4. Richert is also looking to hire a shock specialists and a data aquisition engineer for the organization

UPDATE:

UPDATE:

November 24, 2000
Tony Stewart, a six-time Winston Cup winner this year, and 1999 U.S. Auto Club midget champion Jason Leffler, who put on the season's most exciting race in last year's Turkey Night Grand Prix before Leffler won, are returning this year for an encore. They will be part

Homestead Testing:

Homestead Testing:

October 10, 2000
Homestead Testing: Kyle Petty tested the #45 Sprint Chevrolet on Tuesday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the beginning of a two-day Busch Grand National Series test session. On Wednesday, Petty will be joined by more Busch Series teams, including drivers #66-Todd Bodine

Speaking of Jarrett:

Speaking of Jarrett:

October 4, 2000
Jason Jarrett qualified 3rd for tonight's ARCA event at Lowe, Jarrett's first ARCA race venture, and his #88 car will be serviced by the pit crew from Dale Jarrett's #88 Ford Credit Winston Cup team. Although there are usually a number of cautions in the 67-lap sprint

Kentucky Testing:

Kentucky Testing:

August 11, 2000
Kentucky Testing: hearing that Gibbs Racing “ #4-Jeff Purvis and #18-Jason Leffler are testing their Busch cars at Kentucky Speedway 810 “ 8/11, along with Ryan Newman who is testing (with the help of Buddy Baker) for the ARCA race at Kentucky in two weeks(8-11-2000

Stewart at IRP UPDATE 2:

Stewart at IRP UPDATE 2:

August 4, 2000
Tony Stewart will compete at the DuPont 100 USAC Coors Light Silver Bullet Championship race at Indianapolis Raceway Park tonight(Aug 2nd on ESPN2). BGN driver, Jason Leffler, will also run the race(The Republic, Columbus, IN)(8-2-2000) UPDATE: the race has been postponed

More Ultra Motorsports News:

More Ultra Motorsports News:

July 26, 2000
actually hearing the #7 team may run a Ford as soon as Charlotte and not wait until Talladega AND that BGN driver Jason Leffler will run a second Ultra Motorsports truck Indianapolis Raceway Park(7-26-2000)

More Ultra Motorsports News:

More Ultra Motorsports News:

July 26, 2000
actually hearing the #7 team may run a Ford as soon as Charlotte and not wait until Talladega AND that BGN driver Jason Leffler will run a second Ultra Motorsports truck Indianapolis Raceway Park(7-26-2000)

#72 HRT team returns:

#72 HRT team returns:

June 20, 2000
#72 HRT team returns: Jaime Guerrero, younger brother of accomplished open-wheel driver Roberto, will try to qualify for his first BGN event this weekend at Watkins Glen as the fledgling Hispanic Racing Team runs its first event with Jaime at the controls. The team

Home Depot leaving? UPDATE:

Home Depot leaving? UPDATE:

May 29, 2000
Home Depot, negotiating to re-up with Joe Gibbs' #20 Tony Stewart team, may not come back, and if it doesn't, MBNA could return to a full time Cup sponsorship(it used to sponsor the #22 Ward Burton/Bill Davis car). MBNA currently sponsors the #18 BGN Gibbs car in the

Robby Gordon makes the Indy 500 UPDATE:

Robby Gordon makes the Indy 500 UPDATE:

May 22, 2000
For the second straight year, Robby Gordon has taken the #32 Team Menard Indy entry to the fourth position on the grid in qualifying for the Indy 500. Gordon ran consistent laps of 222.894, 222.932, 222.894 and 222.822 for an average of 222.885mph. It was Gordon's