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Hailie Rochelle Deegan (born July 18, 2001) is an American professional auto racing driver who competes in the 2025 Indy NXT driving for HMD Motorsports. She is best known for competing in NASCAR, last driving the No. 15 Ford Mustang Dark Horse for AM Racing 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.
Starting in 2025, Deegan moved to American open-wheel racing, driving the No. 38 entry for HMD Motorsports in Indy NXT.
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.
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.
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, she confirmed she would run the event for DGR in their No. 54 Toyota Camry. 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 Phoenix Raceway, clinching third in the final championship point standings.
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." She tied her career-best ARCA finish with a second-place run at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack, the series' only dirt race of the season. 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.
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.
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.
She returned to SRX in 2022 for the Stafford Motor Speedway and I-55 Raceway rounds.
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."
In the 2020 season-opening ARCA race at Daytona, Deegan's aggressive bump drafting nearly spun teammate Tanner Gray into the tri-oval. 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." Later that season at Lebanon I-44 Speedway, series officials gave Deegan a warning for her rough driving after she spun out two cars within the first 70 laps of the race. The second incident involved owner-driver Bret Holmes, who was spun as he and Deegan battled for the lead. Holmes said after the race, "Some drivers just don't understand what it's like to run your own team and have to pay for their own stuff, so they just...knock people out of the way every time they have to take the lead."
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.
| LOORRS Junior 1 Karts | 2 | 0 | 0 | 33rd | 20 | |
| LOORRS Junior 2 Karts | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15th | 180 | |
| LOORRS Regional Junior 2 Karts (SoCal) | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4th | 177 | |
| LOORRS Modified Karts | 14 | 0 | 0 | 17th | 334 | |
| NASCAR K&N Pro Series West | 14 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 40 | 5th | 514 | |||
| DGR-Crosley | 54 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| NASCAR K&N Pro Series West | Bill McAnally Racing | 19 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 67 | 3rd | 539 | |
| ARCA Menards Series | Venturini Motorsports | 55 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 24th | 1090 | |
| NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series | DGR-Crosley | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58th | 21 | |
| ARCA Menards Series | 4 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 86 | 3rd | 887 | ||
| ARCA Menards Series East | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 25th | 76 | |||
| SRX Series | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | ||
| NASCAR Xfinity Series | SS-Green Light Racing | 07 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 93rd | N/A | |
| SRX Series | 5/38 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15th | 22 | ||
| Michelin Pilot Challenge - GS | PF Racing | 41 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ? | 41st | 300 | |
| SRX Series | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | ? | 7th | 140 | ||
| Formula Regional Americas Championship | Toney Driver Development | 38 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ? | 19th | 1 | |
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SRX combined points from Deegan and [[Tony Kanaan]] in 2021.
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| 2025 ! nowrap | HMD Motorsports | STP | BAR | IMS | IMS | DET | GTW | Road America | MOH | Iowa Speedway | LAG | LAG | POR | Milwaukee Mile | NSH ! style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 14th ! style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 202 |
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