Hailie Rochelle Deegan was born on July 18,2001 and is an American professional stock car racing driver.
49 Facts About Hailie Deegan
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Hailie Deegan competes full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No 13 Ford F-150 for ThorSport Racing.
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Hailie Deegan grew up racing off-road and on dirt, but transitioned to competing on asphalt in 2016 to pursue a career in stock car racing.
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Hailie Deegan became the first female driver to have won races in the West Series, doing so in the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
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Hailie Deegan began riding dirt bikes at age seven, and started competing in short course off-road racing after being gifted a Trophy Kart for her eighth birthday.
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Hailie Deegan raced in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Junior 1 Karts' final two races at Primm Valley Motorsports Complex.
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Hailie Deegan became the Modified Kart Regional Champion in 2015 and became the Modified Kart National Champion the following year.
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Hailie Deegan was named 2016 Lucas Oil Off Road Driver of the Year.
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Hailie Deegan continued to race full-time in the Pro Lite division of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series in 2017.
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Hailie Deegan is one of four women to win a LOORRS class championship in its history alongside Corry Weller, Kali Kinsman, and Megan Mitchell.
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In 2016, Hailie Deegan began her transition to asphalt racing by driving legends cars for Rev Racing.
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Hailie Deegan was a NASCAR Drive for Diversity member in 2016, and she received the NASCAR Diversity Young Racer award the following year.
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In May 2017, Hailie Deegan was one of nine drivers named to the 2017 NASCAR Next class, in which she was both the youngest member and the only woman.
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Hailie Deegan became a member of Toyota's driver development program.
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Hailie Deegan went on to finish seventh in the race, earning her sixth top-ten finish in six West Series races.
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Hailie Deegan passed her BMR teammate Cole Rouse on the final lap, which ended up being the only lap she led throughout the race.
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Hailie Deegan's win was the second for a woman in a NASCAR touring series race, the first being Shawna Robinson's one win in the 1980s in the now-defunct NASCAR Dash Series.
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Hailie Deegan led the first six laps but eventually retired from the race, finishing 16th after suffering a mechanical issue at New Smyrna for the second consecutive year.
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On March 1,2019, Hailie Deegan announced plans to compete in six races for Venturini Motorsports in the ARCA Menards Series.
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Hailie Deegan ranked 12th in both practice and qualifying, finishing 18th and last after being involved in a crash with Joe Graf Jr.
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Hailie Deegan took pole position at the following race in Sonoma, though she never led a lap in the race and finished eighth after late-race contact with teammate Lawless Alan.
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At the combined East and West Series race at Gateway later that month, Hailie Deegan struggled and only managed a ninth-place finish while sparking an argument with series veteran Todd Souza.
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Hailie Deegan ended the 2019 season with a fourth-place finish at ISM Raceway, clinching third in the final championship point standings.
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Hailie Deegan switched from Toyota's development driver program to Ford's at the end of 2019, signing a full-time ARCA Menards Series contract with DGR-Crosley, which themselves had announced a move to Ford the previous week.
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At the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway, Hailie Deegan ran the fastest lap time in the opening practice session.
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Hailie Deegan followed with three consecutive seventh-place finishes before finishing third at Lucas Oil Raceway, tying the series record for best finish by a woman on a short track.
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Hailie Deegan finished one lap down in 16th, the best result in Truck Series history for a woman in a series debut.
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On October 17,2020, Ford Performance announced that Hailie Deegan was in line to drive full-time in the 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for DGR-Crosley, which was renamed David Gilliland Racing in January.
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Hailie Deegan ended the season with the Gateway top ten and a 17th-place points finish.
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Hailie Deegan regarded her social media presence as a boon in her racing development as her popularity provided patience among sponsors.
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Hailie Deegan was voted the 2021 Truck Series Most Popular Driver, marking the second straight season that a rookie received the award after Zane Smith did so in 2020.
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On October 4,2022, Hailie Deegan announced she would make her NASCAR Xfinity Series debut in the SS-Green Light Racing No 07 at Las Vegas.
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Hailie Deegan finished on the lead lap in 13th, the best result in Xfinity Series history for a woman in a series debut.
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Hailie Deegan's move to Ford in 2020 included a foray into the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge with Multimatic Motorsports.
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Hailie Deegan ran the 2020 series season-opener at Daytona with co-driver Chase Briscoe.
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Hailie Deegan returned to the series at Laguna Seca, teaming in the No 22 Ford with Sebastian Priaulx.
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In 2021, Hailie Deegan joined the newly formed Superstar Racing Experience.
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Hailie Deegan finished second to Tony Stewart in her first race at Knoxville Raceway, which was followed by starts at Slinger Speedway and Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway as a replacement for Tony Kanaan.
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Hailie Deegan returned to SRX in 2022 for the Stafford Motor Speedway and I-55 Raceway rounds.
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Hailie Deegan has embraced her reputation as an aggressive driver, attributing it to her family's roots in motocross.
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At Roseville in 2018, one week after scoring her first career victory on a bump-and-run pass, Hailie Deegan was penalized one lap late in the race for contact with Trevor Huddleston.
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In 2019, driving in her ARCA debut at Toledo, Hailie Deegan finished last after contact with Joe Graf Jr.
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The second incident involved owner-driver Bret Holmes, who was spun as he and Hailie Deegan battled for the lead.
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Hailie Deegan is the daughter of Brian Hailie Deegan, a motocross rider, off-road racer, and former X Games athlete.
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Hailie Deegan is in a relationship with dirt track racer and former NASCAR driver Chase Cabre.
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Hailie Deegan attended Rancho Christian High School in her hometown of Temecula, California.
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Hailie Deegan subsequently apologized after video of the incident was posted to social media.
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The next day, NASCAR announced that Hailie Deegan would be required to take sensitivity training prior to the start of the 2021 season.
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For Thanksgiving in 2020, Hailie Deegan partnered with Ford to deliver 3,325 pounds of turkey to families in Detroit.