Hope The Leffler Memorial Is As Good As Last Year

[CIRF]

The October 20th running of the Jason Leffler Memorial at Wayne County Speedway near Wayne City is upon us once again. We've made the 5 hour drive down to Southern Illinois the past 2 years and it was one of the best races of the season both years.

$20,000.00 to win and a nice payout down through the finishing order. This is a bullring in every sense of the word but it's conducive to 2 and 3 wide midget racing lap after lap similar to Little Belleville and Mighty Macon. Just a bit smaller.

Anyone looking for a some great racing the Leffler Memorial will more than fill the bill. It's quickly becoming a crown jewel of midget racing. Not quite up there with The Belleville Nationals and Turkey Night but it inches closer every year.

Leaving at around 7 AM tomorrow morning!! Can't hardly wait, see you there.

[CIRF]

CLAUSON AND STENHOUSE RACE ON IN BRYAN’S MEMORY THURSDAY AT WAYNE CITY

BY: RICHIE MURRAY - USAC MEDIA

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One year ago at the “Jason Leffler Memorial,” we were fortunate enough to witness a classic Bryan Clauson performance.*

On the gas, smooth and steady, never flinching a muscle, Bryan was able to fend off a relentless Rico Abreu during the final 12 circuits of an intense 40-lap feature to take the victory on the one-eighths-mile bullring.

This Thursday night at Wayne County Speedway in Wayne City, Illinois, there will certainly be a void with the absence of Bryan.* It’s the difficult reality we’ve all had to accept over these past two months.

However, the Clauson name will still retain a presence in this year’s “Leffler Memorial” with the formation of a new team fielded by Bryan’s father, Tim Clauson, and Priority Aviation’s Richard Marshall.

The Clauson/Marshall Racing No. 39 will be raced this Thursday night by Bryan’s close friend, former roommate and current NASCAR Sprint Cup competitor Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. of Olive Branch, Mississippi.

“It’s a huge honor to be a part of this team and to drive this car in honor of Bryan for the rest of the year,” Stenhouse said.* “It’s special for a lot of reasons.* Bryan had a passion for the ‘Leffler Memorial’ and it’s special with it being Tim (Clauson)’s first race back working on the car.* Bryan let me race for him over the years and it’s always been fun driving his car, especially for this race.”

Tim is looking forward to returning to the track and being surrounded by his friends in the racing community as well as working with family friend Stenhouse behind the wheel once again.

“It will be great getting back to the track and seeing all of our friends again, first and foremost,” Clauson said.* “On the competition side of things, though, we’re bringing a really nice racecar.* Bryan, like most race car drivers, didn’t really want anybody else driving his car, but Ricky is the exception.* Ricky represents Bryan on so many levels.* He’s an ambassador to the sport and to our family. For our first race back, there’s nobody else we’d rather have in the car than Ricky.”

The Clauson/Marshall partnership is a continuation of what the Clausons and Marshall began in the late 2000s to provide young up-and-coming drivers an opportunity to race their team’s midgets, giving back to the sport just as Bryan was making the transition to NASCAR, following a similar path that a four-time USAC National champion took nearly a decade earlier – the namesake of Thursday night’s race, Jason Leffler.

“When Bryan first went down south, Jason was the big USAC guy and Bryan was the new kid in town,” Clauson recalled.* “Last year at Wayne City, I remember listening to Bryan speak in victory lane.* He spoke about Jason with such reverence.* It was in that moment, I realized the respect Bryan had for Jason, our sport and its history.”

Stenhouse’s most recent USAC National Midget starts came for Bryan Clauson Racing during a pair of races at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas back in June of 2016.* Stenhouse only managed finishes of 16th and 9th, an appearance most noteworthy of him incidentally creating a viral video in which he flipped down the back straightaway during Friday night’s feature, but managed to land on all four wheels and keep going.

However, it was Ricky’s friend pitted right next to him where the word ‘perseverance’ was on full display.

“We had motor problems with Bryan’s car all day Saturday and all of us kept digging and digging with our crew and Ricky’s dad.* After struggling all day, we wound up winning that night.* Whenever Ricky and I talk, that weekend is the first thing to come up.”

It was a special bond that Bryan and Ricky had, not only through racing together, but also off the track.* A bond that Ricky describes as more like family.

“Bryan was kind of like my older brother,” Stenhouse said.* “I moved in with him back in North Carolina.* We spent every day and night together going to basketball games, golfing, bowling and rodeos. *We have a lot of similarities with the way we presented ourselves.* We had a great friendship and had a lot of fun.”

Stenhouse will pilot the Priority Aviation - B & H Contractors - Elk Grove Ford/Spike/Stanton SR-11 for Clauson/Marshall Racing Thursday night at Wayne City.* Marshall, along with Brodie Hayward and Matt Wood, played an essential role in Bryan’s career, not only through their sponsorships, but through their friendship over the years.

Watch Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. and the Clauson/Marshall Racing number 39 this Thursday night, October 20th in the 4th annual “Jason Leffler Memorial” at Wayne County Speedway in Wayne City, Illinois.

Pit gates open at noon with the front gates opening at 5pm.* Cars hit the track Hot laps at 6pm and racing getting underway at 7pm.* General admission tickets are just $15.* Pit passes are $35.

[calverton]

it s great for a boat right now

[calverton]

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[CIRF]

Postponed until Friday October 21st. All times remain the same. Pits open at noon, front gates at 5 PM and hot laps start at 6 PM.

We got to the track at around noon today (Thursday) and it was evident at that time there was no chance they could have gotten the race in tonight.

Gonna' get a room in Mt. Vernon, Illinois and have a beer or two and a sandwich at one of the local establishments and watch the Cubs and Dodgers and the Bears and Packers.

Lookin' forward to tomorrow night and some GREAT open wheel racing on the dirt!!

[calverton]

Who wants to make a bet that cirf will brag about this event for days saying this no other and no other classes come close to these mighty lil cars they call midgets and everyone of them has a shot of making nascar or indy please tell me i am wrong

[CIRF]

This years Jason Leffler Memorial wasn't quite as exciting of a race as last year but a it was pretty good, nonetheless. Congrats to Brady Bacon. Brady had the fastest car all night. It's too bad Rico and a few others weren't able to race on Friday due to the Thursday rain out.

Next race for us- the Thanksgiving Night TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX at Ventura Raceway in Ventura, California!! REALLY looking forward to watching great racing about 100 yards from the mighty Pacific Ocean! Can't wait.








BACON A BEAST IN “JASON LEFFLER MEMORIAL” SCORE AT WAYNE CITY

Wayne City, Illinois………Wayne County Speedway in southern Illinois is a place that’s become near and dear to Brady Bacon and the FMR Racing team.

Nearly exactly one year to the day of Bacon and FMR’s initial series start, the duo reached its greatest height yet Friday night – their very first USAC National Midget feature victory in the midget racing season’s largest winner’s payout share in North America.

Bacon, the 2014 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car champion, sped past Chris Windom on the eighth lap and immediately pulled away, leading the final 33 laps of the 40-lap “Jason Leffler Memorial” to, ultimately, take the commanding half-straightaway victory worth $20,000.*

It was the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma driver’s third career USAC National Midget feature win and his first in the series since winning the “Hut 100” at Haubstadt, Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway in 2012.

“I think it’s amazing how far we’ve come from this race last year to now,” Bacon said. *“We were good at this race last year, but at the beginning of this year, we had some struggles and had to fine-tune some stuff and get things rolling to catch Keith (Kunz Motorsports) and some of the faster guys.* I’m impressed how fast we’ve been able to do it.”

The team’s Wayne City performance follows up a frustrating three-day weekend at the “Gold Crown Midget Nationals” in Granite City, Illinois two weeks prior in which the team ran into misfortune night-after-night despite having one of, if not the, fastest cars on the racetrack.

FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Tanner Thorson, 3. Carson Macedo, 4. Chris Windom, 5. Andrew Felker, 6. Alex Bright, 7. Chett Gehrke, 8. Spencer Bayston, 9. Dave Darland, 10. Jerry Coons Jr., 11. Shane Cottle, 12. Justin Peck, 13. Grady Chandler, 14. Jonathan Beason, 15. Chad Boat, 16. Riley Kreisel, 17. Ryan Robinson, 18. Tucker Klaasmeyer, 19. Andy Malpocker, 20. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 21. Jake Neuman, 22. Brayton Lynch, 23. Damion Gardner, 24. Colten Cottle, 25. Holly Shelton, 26. Jason McDougal, 27. Rico Abreu, 28. Gage Walker. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Windom, Laps 8-40 Bacon.

KSE RACING PRODUCTS HARD CHARGER: Alex Bright (16th to 6th)

NEW USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Thorson-1,194, 2-Bayston-1,185, 3-Boat & Bacon-1,129, 5-Macedo-1,058, 6-Robinson-872, 7-Shelton-810, 8-Bryan Clauson-720, 9-T.Thomas-714, 10-Greth-572.

NEXT USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: November 24 – Ventura, California - Ventura Raceway – 76th "Turkey Night Grand Prix"

[calverton]

yep he took it hook line and stinker

[CIRF]

litey, you're so ignorant you wouldn't know a hook, line and sinker from a dog turd if the turd was half way up you nose. LOLOL!!

[calverton]

but I can read you like a book

[CIRF]

Don't try and flatter yourself, you couldn't read a kindergarten version of Fun With D ick & Jane if someone spotted you Jane! LOL!!

The way you follow me around is getting creepy, as in stalker creepy. Yeeeeeesh.


Go leach on to someone else for a while cause you are weirding me out. I'm starting to get the yucky feeling you jerk off to Dirt Late Model magazine and that's a notion I do not want to conjure up. LOL!!


Besides that you're downright stupid.

[calverton]

I know you like a book

[CIRF]

Boomhauer, you're really creepy the way you follow me around. You remind me of a spurned stalker.

Now go leach onto someone else. The weird you project is palpable.

[calverton]

poor thing I got your number

[CIRF]

Boomhauer, you got nothin' except a dirt late model and mortified inferiority complex. LOL!! You constantly try to quantify and legitimize late models and mortifieds as a big time racing division when in fact they are niche divisions on the bottom end of the racing totem pole that are not even stepping stone classes. You're merely a moron who knows nothing else but the dead end dirt late models and mortifieds. It gets boring making fun of you and you're too stupid to know your being made fun of!! LOL!

Boomhauer, go put on your precious faded World Hundred T-shirt (LOL!!) and bask in the fog of your illiterate bliss. Following me around stalking me isn't going to gain you any points because me knowing what I'm talking about isn't ever going to rub off on you, so stop trying.

Do you actually enjoy being ridiculed and made fun of, or are you too ignorant to know when it's happening. LOLOL!!!