Posted on 06/12/2013 11:39:25 PM PDT by South40
SWEDESBORO, N.J. (AP) — NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died after an accident Wednesday night in a heat race at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway.
The 37-year-old Leffler, a two-time winner on the NASCAR Nationwide Series who had the nickname "LefTurn" above the driver's side window on his race cars, was pronounced dead shortly after 9 p.m., New Jersey State Police said.
"NASCAR extends its thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to the family of Jason Leffler who passed away earlier this evening," NASCAR said in a statement. "For more than a decade, Jason was a fierce competitor in our sport and he will be missed."
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If you’re afraid of dying go be a couch potato and shut up!
What a great story! I’m lmfao at it!
Horse Chit anybody who would say that has no idea what feeds a passion and most likely has never had one. What a wasted and boring life it must be.
Try riding the skids on a Huey with green tracers coming at ya.
Handling dynamite and then touching your face can be good for that, too. The stuff sweats nitroglycerine, which is a powerful vaso-dialator. It'll go right into your bloodstream through thin skin, and you can give yourself one hell of a headache if you aren't careful.
Dang. RIP
Well, passion is wonderful but that sweet kid in the picture is gonna’ grow up wishing pop had been a plumber or used care salesman.
I’ve been in more motorcycle crashes than I can count (literally). I’ve leaped out of perfectly functional air craft and even have a nice skydiving accident story that I can tell anyone who indicates an interest.
But when a man brings a son into the world he has a responsibility to be there to teach the boy to be a man. If he must die for his passion it ought to be a passion WORTH his life and the loss to his family. The passion of standing up for truth. Standing against evil. Doing right by your brothers and sisters. Doing good for your world.
I’d understand if pop caught it on some Iwo Jima somewhere but as a son I think I’d resent it deeply that he died in middle age trying to win a contest involving boys toys.
I can understand the lure of big horsepower and a loud, violent contest in controlling them and prevailing above the field, but when they put my son in my arms in that delivery room almost all of the boyish, adolescent selfishness that had been my life went right out the window.
The very idea of some other guy teaching and guiding my son and explaining the world to him absolutely repels me.
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But when a man brings a son into the world he has a responsibility to be there to teach the boy to be a man. If he must die for his passion it ought to be a passion WORTH his life and the loss to his family. The passion of standing up for truth. Standing against evil. Doing right by your brothers and sisters. Doing good for your world.
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you have a world of intelligence in you.
Well, when you are providing a good or service to people in our economy, it is usually to help them with a need that they have. I don’t really see race car driving as that. To want to be entertained by fast driving is not really a good need being fulfilled as I see it. And when you have children and a wife and have such a dangerous job, I see that as rather selfish actually.
passion = bs
I don’t think we are equipped to answer your question, anymore than you can understand our deep desire to do fun things.
If you ain’t never been in a dune buggy I get that you can’t understand the rush.
or surfing, mountain climbing, zip linning and those are things you can do any day.
I don’t have a wife and I don’t have children but, I can’t imagine giving up adventure for longer than it takes to heal from an injury.
I need it and don’t view is dangerous.
I view sitting in front of the TV as dangerous. Not to everyone but, for me.
What you see as dangerous the rest of us do quite frequently without much getting broken.
It’s fun.
BTW, race car driving is entertainment. Part of the service economy. It provides jobs for the organizers, the people who mind the track, the sportscasters, the food and beverage vendors, the print shops that manufacture the programs for the race and other announcements.
Think of racing like a any ball game. Football, baseball, soccer. Tons of jobs are there....
Great for the economy.
Forgot about that and he did hand me a glove.
Gawd that was hilarious....
Only if if I have to.
Would rather base jump....not really, I’d probably prefer to take my chances with bullets...
Not down with the roll but, pretty kewel to pass someone on a white horse and then wipe out.
Then again, I’m not down with falling 50-100 yards down the mountain because I thought I could do something that no one else would.
But, it was fun to get up and walk away.
I can understand completely the naysayers points about fathers/fatherless children. So to reinforce my following point for them, I’ll make it personal.
My dad hit the road when I was about 3 and never looked back. He was former military and served with honor there, but had none in him otherwise. I was raised by loving grandparents mostly. Gramps was an old school lumberjack and a bit old to be a normal father figure, but he did a fine job.
I have a daughter now 24. She has worked on 3 of the top 4 planes in the USAF as a jet mechanic and now holds some high level clearances. Her job came directly from my love of things that go zoom. Because I took her from many of those races I covered.
The one thing I instilled in her is that life is fleeting. I have several health issues that I was born with that I refused to let stop me. I have been quite dead and thanks to God and medical science in that order, I’m still here. My statement to her was make something of yourself and your life because you can die faster driving tomwork every day on a freeway or stepping off a curb than you can wrapped in 2,000 pounds of chro-moly steel and a 5 point safetyb harness.
She took that advice and has done more in 24 years than most men/women will do in a lifetime. And she did so because bottom line, when it’s our time to cash in, we won’t go a second before or after.
We were not put here to exist. We were put here to LIVE.
Other opinions may differ.
I’m really glad to hear about your daughter. I spend a little time with women of that age and many are absolutely afraid of living.
I am really blessed that this one isn’t. But you are right. She tells me often how many of her old school friends never really made it out of high school mentally, and ‘exist’.I truly envy the life she’s made thusfar. It could so easily have gone in a different direction.
Zactly¡¡¡
Live it up baby¡¡¡
Yer gonna be for 80 some odd years, God willin.
Have fun. Bein afraid is good but, it’s a tool and shouldn’t stop you from at least trying something.
If I had the attitude I might get hurt at doing things I’d never have fun.
Accept it. You’re gonna at least get a boo boo doing most anything and you might even break something.
You’ll live.
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