Hailie Deegan

Hailie Rochelle Deegan (born July 18, 2001) is an American professional racing driver who currently competes full-time in the ARCA Menards Series West driving the No. 16 Chevrolet SS for Bill McAnally Racing, She formerly competed in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

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 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.

In 2025, Deegan made a brief move to American open-wheel racing, driving the No. 38 entry for HMD Motorsports in Indy NXT, before returning to stock car racing in 2026.

Off-road racing

Deegan began riding dirt bikes at age seven, She also raced in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS) Junior 1 Karts' final two races at Primm Valley Motorsports Complex. Deegan became the Modified Kart Regional Champion in 2015 and became the Modified Kart National Champion the following year. She was also named 2016 Lucas Oil Off Road Driver of the Year. Deegan continued to race full-time in the Pro Lite division of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series in 2017.

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.

NASCAR Deegan was a NASCAR Drive for Diversity member in 2016, and she received the NASCAR Diversity Young Racer award the following year. She also became a member of Toyota's driver development program.

2018: K&N Pro Series, first victory

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 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 nineteen due to mechanical problems. On March 15, Deegan made her West Series debut at Kern County Raceway Park, finishing seventh. Kevin Harvick, NASCAR's 2014 Sprint Cup Series champion (who finished fourth), 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. 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, (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 thirteen 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. 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. With a sixth-place finish two races later at the K&N West season finale at Kern County, Deegan closed the year by clinching Rookie of the Year honors for the series.

2019: Return to K&N competition, ARCA debut

Deegan returned to BMR in 2019 for another full and partial schedule in the K&N West and East Series respectively. At the East season-opening race at New Smyrna, qualifying was rained out, allowing Deegan to inherit pole position after setting the fastest practice time. Deegan led the first six laps but eventually retired from the race, finishing sixteenth after suffering a mechanical issue at New Smyrna for the second consecutive year. Prior to the 2019 season, the Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway's race date was moved to serve as the season-opening race for the West Series. Deegan earned her second career K&N Pro Series win in the event with another last-lap pass, this time on Sunrise Ford Racing's Jagger Jones.

On March 1, 2019, Deegan announced plans to compete in six races for Venturini Motorsports in the ARCA Menards Series. Deegan made her series debut at Toledo in Venturini's No. 55 Toyota Camry on May 19. She ranked twelfth in both practice and qualifying, finishing eighteenth and last after being involved in a crash with Joe Graf Jr. At Colorado National Speedway, Deegan earned her third career K&N West win, though some deemed the victory controversial as she spun out Kraus, her teammate, for the win on the final lap. 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.

In August, Deegan made her debut for the DGR-Crosley team at the second K&N East race at Bristol. Despite having originally announced the race as part of her schedule with Venturini, At the combined East and West Series race at Gateway later that month, Deegan struggled and only managed a ninth-place finish while also sparking an argument with series veteran Todd Souza. Deegan and Souza made contact late in the race, with Souza calling her driving "disrespectful."

Deegan scored her first ARCA top-five finish in October at Indianapolis Raceway Park. The following weekend, she had a strong performance at Roseville in K&N West, setting the fastest time in both practice sessions, winning the pole, and finishing second in the race. Deegan ended the 2019 season with a fourth-place finish at ISM Raceway, clinching third in the final championship point standings.

2020: Move to Ford and DGR-Crosley, Truck debut 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. She cited Toyota's lack of available teams relative to their number of drivers as the reason for the switch, explaining, "there's so many Toyota drivers and there's not many seats. I think we made the best decision for my career long-term." Deegan's father Brian stated that she would focus on ARCA in 2020 to prepare her for the higher levels of NASCAR.

At the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway, Deegan ran the fastest lap time in the opening practice session. Despite a mid-race incident with Chuck Hiers, she would go on to finish second in the race behind Michael Self, tying Robinson and Erin Crocker for best ARCA finish by a woman. Deegan would not score another top-five finish until Lebanon I-44 Speedway, where she finished fifth after being involved in multiple incidents throughout the night, including spinning out on the last lap after contact with Ty Gibbs.

By mid-September, Deegan had expressed frustration with ARCA's limited practice and lack of live pit stops due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it "favors the drivers who have been there forever" and makes it more difficult to attract sponsorship. She also called the quality of the racing in ARCA "boring" due to the field being spread out, arguing, "I think [what] we've been lacking a lot in the ARCA Series [is] good racing." At the conclusion of the season, Deegan finished third in the point standings and claimed the series' Rookie of the Year award.

On October 7, 2020, DGR-Crosley announced that Deegan would make her NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series debut in the team's No. 17 Ford at Kansas. She finished one lap down in 16th, the best result in Truck Series history for a woman in a series debut.

2021: Full-time in Truck Series Deegan in the No. 1 truck at Daytona International Speedway in 2021 On October 17, 2020, Ford Performance announced that 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. Deegan's truck number, No. 1, was revealed on January 18, 2021.

In August, she finished seventh at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway. Besides being her first Truck Series career top ten, she became the first woman in series history to score such a finish outside of a superspeedway.

She ended the season with the Gateway top-ten and a seventeenth place points finish. Due to many races not having practice and qualifying as part of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, Deegan regarded her rookie season as a "learning experience" in growing accustomed to life in the Truck Series. She also regarded her social media presence as a boon in her racing development as her popularity provided patience among sponsors. She 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.

2022: Xfinity Series debut On October 4, 2022, Deegan announced she would make her NASCAR Xfinity Series debut in the SS-Green Light Racing No. 07 at Las Vegas. She finished on the lead lap in thirteenth, the best result in Xfinity Series history for a woman in a series debut. Deegan in the No. 13 truck at the Circuit of the Americas in 2023

2024: Part-time in Xfinity Series

On October 5, 2023, Deegan signed a multi-year deal with AM Racing to drive the No. 15 starting in 2024. Following a string of disappointing finishes, AM Racing replaced Deegan with two-time Cup Series champion Joey Logano for the Chicago street race. The team struggled throughout the season, only scoring four finishes of twentieth or better through seventeen races, with a best finish of twelfth at Talladega. On July 8, AM Racing and Deegan officially announced that they would part ways.

2026: Return to stock cars On January 21, 2026, Deegan announced she would be returning full-time to the ARCA Menards Series West for the 2026 season with Bill McAnally Racing, while also making part-time starts in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing.

IMSA Deegan's move to Ford in 2020 included a foray into the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge with Multimatic Motorsports. She ran the 2020 series season-opener at Daytona with co-driver Chase Briscoe. Deegan and Briscoe finished 43rd out of 51 cars. The pair's No. 22 Ford GT4 ran as high as fifteenth but developed mechanical problems about three hours into the four-hour event. Deegan returned to the series at Laguna Seca, teaming up in the No. 22 Ford with Sebastian Priaulx.

In 2022, she returned to the Michelin Pilot Challenge at Daytona, once again sharing a car with Briscoe. The pair placed 24th in the field of 48.

Superstar Racing Experience In 2021, Deegan joined the newly formed Superstar Racing Experience. She 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. The Slinger race was highlighted by a feud with Paul Tracy in which the two spun each other before arguing on Instagram.

She returned to SRX in 2022 for the Stafford Motor Speedway and I-55 Raceway rounds.

Open Wheel Deegan (behind) chasing Tommy Smith at Road America in 2025.

Indy NXT On October 14, 2024, It was announced that Deegan would race in the Indy NXT series in the No. 38 HMD Motorsports car for the 2025 season. She finished 14th in her series debut at the St. Petersburg street circuit. Deegan ended the season 14th in the championship standings with a season best of 11th place at Laguna Seca before returning to stock car racing in 2026.

Driving style Known for her aggressive on-track moves, all three of Deegan's wins in the K&N Pro Series West came after making contact with another car, while her last one saw her spin out her teammate entirely. attributing it to her family's roots in motocross.

At Roseville in 2018, one week after scoring her first career victory on a bump-and-run pass, Deegan was penalized one lap late in the race for contact with Trevor Huddleston. In 2019, driving in her ARCA debut at Toledo, Deegan finished last after contact with Joe Graf Jr. and declared she was "done playing nice." Deegan's rough driving in the K&N West race at Gateway led to an argument with series veteran Todd Souza. Souza stated that her on-track behavior was "full-on disrespect" and was quoted as saying Deegan "drives like she's a spoiled rotten little baby." Despite her spotter, Eric Holmes, encouraging her to relax the aggression, Deegan later sent Chuck Hiers into the wall coming off of turn 2, leading Autoweeks Matt Weaver to write, "Such drafting tactics are generally disapproved of at Daytona and Talladega, and that's something she will have to learn." Her younger brother Haiden Deegan is a professional AMA supercross and motocross racer, and was the 2023 AMA SMX 250 champion. Her youngest brother Hudson has also competed in motocross. Deegan is in a relationship with dirt track racer and former NASCAR driver Chase Cabre. Cabre served as her co-driver in the 2022 Mint 400.

She attended Rancho Christian High School in her hometown of Temecula, California. Deegan currently splits time between her two residences in California and Mooresville, North Carolina.

At the 2020 Daytona 500, Deegan expressed interest in meeting President Donald Trump, tweeting the morning of the race, "Today's goal. Get my helmet signed by Trump." Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., also attended the race and connected Deegan with President Trump, leading him to sign Deegan's helmet and pose for pictures with her.

In September 2020, Deegan was criticized when comments surfaced from an audio podcast in which she called the COVID-19 pandemic a "hoax." In January 2021, she attracted criticism for calling another player a "retard" during an iRacing livestream on her Twitch channel. Deegan subsequently apologized after video of the incident was posted to social media. The next day, NASCAR announced that Deegan would be required to take sensitivity training prior to the start of the 2021 season.

Motorsports career results

Career summary Off-road Season Series Wins Podiums Points Ref 2009 SXS Stadium Junior Kart Stock 2 1 2 5th 122 LOORRS Junior 1 Karts 2 0 0 33rd 20 2010 LOORRS Junior 1 Karts 6 0 0 20th 238 LOORRS Junior 2 Karts 5 0 0 15th 180 2011 LOORRS Junior 2 Karts 15 0 0 11th 406 LOORRS Regional Junior 2 Karts (SoCal) 4 0 2 4th 177 2012 LOORRS Junior 2 Karts 15 1 1 8th 536 2013 LOORRS Junior 2 Karts 11 3 6 1st 504 LOORRS Modified Karts 14 0 0 17th 334 2014 LOORRS Modified Karts 15 1 1 13th 424 2015 LOORRS Modified Karts 14 0 4 9th 440 2016 LOORRS Modified Karts 13 4 10 1st 622 2017 LOORRS Pro Lite 13 0 3 6th 499 2018 LOORRS Pro Lite 3 0 0 17th 126 2019 LOORRS Pro Lite 3 0 0 16th 126

Asphalt Season Series Team Wins Top fives Top tens Poles Laps led Points Ref 2017 CARS Super Late Model Tour Bond Suss Racing 55 2 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Bill McAnally Racing 19 6 0 0 0 0 3 20th 142 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series DGR-Crosley 17 1 0 0 0 0 0 58th 21 2024 AM Racing 15 Ford DAY37 ATL27 LVS15 PHO33 COA23 RCH31 MAR18 TEX23 TAL12 DOV31 DAR36 CLT20 PIR33 SON32 IOW25 NHA32 NSH28 CSC POC IND MCH DAY DAR ATL GLN BRI KAN TAL ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO 32nd 174

Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Pts Ref 2020 DGR-Crosley 17 Ford DAY LVS CLT ATL HOM POC KEN TEX KAN KAN MCH DRC DOV GTW DAR RCH BRI LVS TAL KAN16 TEX MAR PHO 58th 21 2021 David Gilliland Racing 1 DAY24 DRC28 LVS28 ATL21 BRD19 RCH17 KAN13 DAR20 COA14 CLT13 TEX24 NSH21 POC26 KNX21 GLN19 GTW7 DAR29 BRI25 LVS31 TAL24 MAR19 PHO17 17th 360 2022 DAY17 LVS33 ATL36 COA34 MAR19 BRD18 DAR29 KAN17 TEX17 CLT27 GTW15 SON32 KNX15 NSH28 MOH10 POC33 IRP13 RCH26 KAN22 BRI14 TAL6 HOM17 PHO31 21st 349 2023 ThorSport Racing 13 Ford DAY35 LVS32 ATL12 COA16 TEX6 BRD13 MAR20 KAN12 DAR20 NWS20 CLT33 GTW32 NSH28 MOH26 POC13 RCH15 IRP31 MLW22 KAN30 BRI17 TAL8 HOM28 PHO15 19th 385 2026 McAnally–Hilgemann Racing TBA Chevy DAY ATL STP DAR CAR BRI TEX GLN DOV CLT NSH MCH COR LRP NWS IRP RCH NHA BRI KAN ROV PHO TAL MAR HOM -* -*

Season still in progress Ineligible for series points

ARCA Menards Series (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) ARCA Menards Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pts Ref 2019 Venturini Motorsports 55 Toyota DAY FIF SLM TAL NSH TOL18 CLT POC7 MCH MAD12 GTW CHI ELK8 IOW POC ISF DSF SLM IRP5 KAN8 24th 1090 2020 DGR-Crosley 4 Ford DAY2 PHO7 TAL7 POC7 IRP3 KEN14 IOW18 KAN9 TOL8 TOL6 MCH6 DRC6 GTW9 L445* TOL6 BRI6 WIN12 MEM7 ISF2 KAN6 3rd 887 2026 Bill McAnally Racing 16 Chevy DAY PHO11 KAN TAL GLN TOL MCH POC BER ELK CHI LRP IRP IOW ISF MAD DSF SLM BRI KAN -* -*

ARCA Menards Series East ARCA Menards Series East results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pts Ref 2018 Bill McAnally Racing 19 Toyota NSM29 BRI22 LGY SBO SBO MEM13 NJM TMP NHA16 IOW21 GLN GTW23 NHA DOV 20th 142 2019 NSM16 BRI16 SBO10 SBO12 MEM NHA11 IOW12 GLN GTW9 NHA DOV 10th 258 DGR-Crosley 54 Toyota BRI9 2020 4 Ford NSM TOL DOV TOL6 BRI6 FIF 25th 76

ARCA Menards Series West ARCA Menards Series West results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pts Ref 2018 Bill McAnally Racing 19 Toyota KCR7 TUS8 TUS8 OSS4 CNS5 SON7 DCS2 IOW21 EVG7 GTW23 LVS2 MER1 AAS7 KCR6 5th 514 2019 LVS1 IRW5 TUS3 TUS15 CNS1* SON8 DCS3 IOW12 EVG7 GTW9 MER13 AAS2 KCR3 PHO4 3rd 539 2026 Bill McAnally Racing 16 Chevy KER6 PHO11 TUC7 SHA7 CNS7 TRI14 SON20 PIR3 AAS MAD LVS PHO KER -* -*

Superstar Racing Experience (key) * – Most laps led. 1 – Heat 1 winner. 2 – Heat 2 winner. Superstar Racing Experience results Year No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pts 2021 1 STA KNX2 ELD IRP SLG4 NSV10 6th 162 2022 5 FIF SBO STA6 NSV 16th 22 38 I559 SHA 2023 5 STA5 STA II8 MMS8 BER5 ELD2 LOS10 7th 140

SRX combined points from Deegan and Tony Kanaan in 2021.

CARS Super Late Model Tour (key) CARS Super Late Model Tour results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pts Ref 2017 Bond Suss 55 Toyota CON DOM DOM HCY HCY BRI AND ROU TCM11 ROU HCY14 CON SBO 29th 41

American open–wheel racing results

Formula Regional Americas Championship (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Indy NXT (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (Races with L indicate a race lap led) (Races with * indicate most race laps led) Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Rank Points 2025 HMD Motorsports STP BAR IMS IMS DET GTW ROA MOH IOW LAG LAG POR MIL NSH 14th 202