JASON LEFFLER MEMORIAL FOR USAC MIDGETS PAYS $10,000 TO WIN ON TUESDAY NOVEMBER 25
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (November 22, 2025) – Bakersfield Speedway at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway hosts the 11th annual Jason Leffler Memorial on Tuesday night November 25, featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midgets competing for $10,000 to win. The California Lightning Sprints will also be competing in their 2025 season championship race. More than 30 National Midgets will take on the one-third mile dirt track, racing in memory of Riverside, California’s Jason Leffler.
Grandstand gates open at 4pm followed by the first hot laps at 5pm. General Admission tickets are on sale now at www.BakersfieldSpeedway.com or available at the gates. Adult general admission tickets are $30 with kids ages 6-12 admitted for $15 while kids five and under are free!
The Jason Leffler Memorial honors the memory of the four-time USAC national driving champion and resumes after a one-year hiatus. The event previously held in Illinois moves to Leffler’s home state in 2025.
Leffler captured USAC National Midget titles in 1997-1998-1999 and also scored the 1998 USAC Silver Crown championship. Among his 19 career USAC National Midget feature wins are the 1997 Belleville Nationals, the 1997 Hut 100, the 1999 Copper World Classic, the 2002 Night Before the 500. and the 1999 & 2005 Turkey Night Grand Prix. He is also an inductee of the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame and the USAC Hall of Fame.
No previous winners of the Jason Leffler Memorial are currently entered, ensuring a new victor out of the red hot field of drivers expected to compete. Two drivers with recent winged Sprint Car success at Kern Raceway are expected in action, with 2025 World of Outlaws feature winner Buddy Kofoid of Penngrove, Calif. and 2023 NARC feature winner Corey Day of Clovis, Calif. in action. Two-time Bakersfield Speedway USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget winner Logan Seavey of Sutter, Calif. takes his talents 20 miles west in 2025 to the new speedway. Surprise, Ariz.’s Drake Edwards is another driver with a victory at Kern on his resume, claiming a USAC Western Midget feature in 2024.
Championship contenders such as Oklahoma’s Cannon McIntosh, Ione, California’s Justin Grant, Kevin Thomas, Jr. from Alabama, and Jacob Denney of Ohio will be gunning for a critical victory in the series’ penultimate race. NASCAR Cup Series driver Ty Gibbs is expected along with popular multi-faceted driver Kaylee Bryson. West Coast standouts are headlined by Lemoore’s Carson Macedo, a 58-time winner with the World of Outlaws. Other Californians include Castro Valley’s Jake Andreotti, Bakersfield’s own Jett Yantis and Broedy Graham, and Riverside’s Dane Culver.
Tuesday’s event is also the 9th annual Western States Championship for the California Lightning Sprints. The three 2025 stops for the series at Bakersfield Speedway at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway have featured three different winners, with Eric Greco, Jeff Dyer, and Bobby Michnowicz claiming wins. Aiden Lange of Lakewood leads Drake Cardey of Riverside by 52-points heading into the $500 to win finale.
For more information on Bakersfield Speedway at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway, visit www.BakersfieldSpeedway.com or follow the speedway on social media. Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway is located at 13500 Raceway Blvd, near Enos Ln and Interstate 5 in Bakersfield.
