Hailie Deegan

Her 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.

Hailie Rochelle Deegan (born July 18, 2001) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

She competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 15 Ford Mustang for AM Racing.

Deegan is currently a Ford Performance driver and formerly a Toyota Racing Development driver.

In 2009, she won in her first race in the SXS Stadium Series' Trophy Kart class.

She also raced in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) Junior 1 Karts' final two races at Primm Valley Motorsports Complex.

In 2013, she became the first female driver to win a LOORRS championship when she won the Junior 2 Karts class.

Kevin Harvick, NASCAR's 2014 Sprint Cup Series champion (who finished fourth), battled for position with Deegan at the end of the race and was impressed with her performance, saying, "If I had to pick one person to say, 'Alright, that's the person [ Kevin Harvick Incorporated ] would want to represent and has the most potential,' it would probably be Hailie Deegan. She did really, really well."

On May 15, Deegan was announced as a NASCAR Next class member for the second straight year as one of four drivers returning to the program from the previous season.

Deegan became the Modified Kart Regional Champion in 2015 and became the Modified Kart National Champion the following year.

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.

She was also named 2016 Lucas Oil Off Road Driver of the Year.

In 2016, Deegan began her transition to asphalt racing by driving legends cars for Rev Racing.

Deegan was a NASCAR Drive for Diversity member in 2016, and she received the NASCAR Diversity Young Racer award the following year.

Deegan continued to race full-time in the Pro Lite division of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series in 2017.

She is one of four women to win a LOORRS class championship in its history alongside Corry Weller, Kali Kinsman, and Megan Mitchell.

After moving to pavement racing, Deegan occasionally returned to off-road.

In December 2021, she participated in the Nitro Rallycross' side-by-side (SXS) support class at Florida International Rally and Motorsports Park, where she finished fifth and fourth in two races.

When the Truck Series had a weekend off on March 11–13, 2022, Deegan made her Mint 400 debut in the Unlimited Truck Spec class.

In 2017, she made her asphalt late model debut with a pair of CARS Super Late Model Tour starts, first at Tri-County Motor Speedway, and later at Hickory Motor Speedway.

In May 2017, 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.

She also became a member of Toyota's driver development program.

She began her career in NASCAR in 2018 in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West.

She became the first female driver to have won races in the West Series, doing so in the 2018 and 2019 seasons.

She is the daughter of Brian Deegan.

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.

On January 3, 2018, Deegan was announced as a full-time driver in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West for Bill McAnally Racing (BMR), a team that had won the West Series championship each of the three previous seasons.

It was announced that she would also run a part-time schedule for McAnally in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East.

Deegan was the only female driver who competed full-time in either 2018 K&N Series.

Deegan made her debut in the season-opening East Series race at New Smyrna Speedway on February 11, where she started ninth but retired on lap 19 due to mechanical problems.

On March 15, Deegan made her West Series debut at Kern County Raceway Park, finishing seventh.

Among those in the 2018–19 class, she was once again the only woman as well as the youngest member.

She scored her first career top-five finish on May 19, finishing fourth at Orange Show Speedway.

At Sonoma, Deegan qualified third and received her high school diploma during driver introductions.

She went on to finish seventh in the race, earning her sixth top-ten finish in six West Series races.

In her next race at Roseburg, Deegan finished second behind her BMR teammate, Derek Kraus, setting a new mark for her best career finish in the series and tying Kenzie Ruston, Nicole Behar, and Julia Landauer (all of whom are also NASCAR Next alumni) for the record for best K&N Pro Series finish by a woman.

At the Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Deegan qualified on pole position for the Star Nursery 100, becoming the first woman in NASCAR history to win a pole at the K&N level.

Despite a shifter issue during the first half of the race, she led 13 laps and equalled her career best result of second in the event.

On September 29, Deegan became the first woman to win at the K&N Pro Series level, taking the victory at the NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208 at Meridian Speedway in Idaho.

Deegan passed her BMR teammate Cole Rouse on the final lap, which ended up being the only lap she led throughout the race.