Hailie Rochelle Deegan (born on July 18, 2001) is an American expert stock vehicle hustling driver. She contends full-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 17 Ford F-150 for David Gilliland Racing. Deegan is presently a Ford Racing Development driver and once a Toyota Racing Development driver. 

Deegan grew up hustling rough terrain and on soil, however changed to contending on black-top in 2016 to seek after a profession in-stock vehicle dashing. She started her vocation in NASCAR in 2018 in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West.

She turned into the main female driver to have dominated races in the West Series, doing as such in the 2018 and 2019 seasons. She is the little girl of Brian Deegan. 

Off-road racing

Deegan started riding earth bicycles at age seven and started hustling at eight years old, running in rough terrain arrangement.

She at last contended in the Lucas Oil Off-Road Racing Series, where she turned into the primary female to win a title, doing as such in the 2013 Junior 2 Karts season. Deegan turned into the Modified Kart Regional Champion in 2015 and turned into the Modified Kart National Champion the next year.

She was likewise named 2016 Lucas Oil Off-Road Driver of the Year. She kept on hustling full-time in the Pro Lite division of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series in 2017. 

Asphalt racing

In 2016, Deegan started her progress to black-top dashing by driving legends vehicles for Rev Racing. In 2017, she made her black-top late-model introduction with a couple of CARS Super Late Model Tour begins, first at Tri-County Motor Speedway, and later at Hickory Motor Speedway. 

NASCAR 

Deegan was a NASCAR Drive for Diversity part in 2016, and she got the NASCAR Diversity Young Racer grant the next year.

In May 2017, Deegan was one of nine drivers named to the 2017 NASCAR Next class, in which she was both the most youthful part and the lone female part. She additionally turned into an individual from Toyota's driver improvement program. 

2020: Move to Ford and DGR-Crosley, Truck debut 

Deegan changed from Toyota's improvement driver program to Ford's toward the finish of 2019, marking a full-time ARCA Menards Series contract with DGR-Crosley, which themselves had reported a transition to Ford the earlier week.

She refered to Toyota's absence of accessible groups comparative with their number of drivers as the purpose behind the switch, clarifying, "there are so numerous Toyota drivers and there are very few seats. I think we settled on the best choice for my vocation long haul."

Deegan's dad Brian expressed that she would zero in on ARCA in 2020 to set up her for the more significant levels of NASCAR. 

At the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway, Deegan ran the quickest lap time in the initial practice meeting.

Regardless of a mid-race episode with Chuck Hiers, she would proceed to complete second in the race behind Michael Self, tying Robinson and Erin Crocker for best ARCA wrap up by a lady.

She followed with three successive seventh-place completes prior to completing third at Lucas Oil Raceway, tying the arrangement record for the best wrap up by a female driver on a short track.

Deegan would not score another main five completion until Lebanon I-44 Speedway, where she completed fifth in the wake of being engaged with various episodes for the duration of the evening, including turning out on the last lap after contact with Ty Gibbs. 

By mid-September, Deegan had communicated disappointment with ARCA's restricted practice and absence of live refueling breaks because of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it "favors the drivers who have been there always" and makes it harder to pull in sponsorship.

She likewise called the nature of the dashing in ARCA "exhausting" because of the field being spread out, contending, "I think [what] we've been deficient with regards to a great deal in the ARCA Series [is] great hustling."

She tied her profession best ARCA get done with a runner-up run at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack, the arrangement's just earth race of the period.

At the finish of the period, Deegan completed third in the point standings and asserted the arrangement's Rookie of the Year grant. 

On October 7, 2020, DGR-Crosley declared that Deegan would make her NASCAR Gander RV and Outdoors Truck Series debut in the group's No. 17 Ford at Kansas. She completed one lap down in sixteenth, the best outcome in Truck Series history for a female driver in an arrangement debut. 

2021: Full-time in Truck Series 

On October 17, 2020, Ford Performance declared 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. 

IMSA 

Deegan's transition to Ford in 2020 incorporated a raid into the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge with Multimatic Motorsports. She ran the 2020 arrangement season-opener at Daytona with co-driver Chase Briscoe. Deegan and Briscoe completed 43rd out of 51 vehicles.

The pair's No. 22 Ford GT4 ran as high as the fifteenth yet evolved mechanical issues around three hours into the four-hour occasion. Deegan got back to the arrangement at Laguna Seca, joining in the No. 22 Ford with Sebastian Priaulx. 

Controversy

At Roseville in 2018, multi-week subsequent to scoring her first vocation triumph on a knock and-run pass, Deegan was punished one lap late in the race for contact with Trevor Huddleston.

In 2019, driving in her ARCA debut at Toledo, Deegan completed last after contact with Joe Graf Jr. also, announced she was "done getting along." Deegan's unpleasant driving in the K&N West race at Gateway prompted a contention with arrangement veteran Todd Souza.

Souza expressed that her target conduct was "all-out irreverence" and was cited as saying Deegan "drives like she's an excessively coddled little infant." 

In the 2020 season-opening ARCA race at Daytona, Deegan's forceful knock drafting almost spun colleague Tanner Gray into the tri-oval.

Regardless of her spotter, Eric Holmes, urging her to loosen up the hostility, Deegan later sent Chuck Hiers into the divider falling off of turn 2, driving Autoweek's Matt Weaver to express, "Such drafting strategies are for the most part disliked at Daytona and Talladega, and that is something she should learn."

Later that season at Lebanon I-44 Speedway, arrangement authorities gave Deegan an admonition for her harsh driving after she spun out two vehicles inside the initial 70 laps of the race. The subsequent episode included proprietor driver Bret Holmes, who was spun as he and Deegan fought for the lead.

Holmes said after the race, "A few drivers simply don't comprehend what it resembles to run your own group and need to pay for their own stuff, so they just...knock individuals far removed each time they need to start to lead the pack." 

In September 2020, Deegan was censured when remarks surfaced from a sound digital broadcast where she called the COVID-19 pandemic a "scam."

On January 10, 2021, she again pulled in analysis for utilizing an ableist slur during an iRacing Livestream on her Twitch channel. Deegan in this manner apologized after a video of the episode was presented via web-based media.

The following day, NASCAR declared that Deegan would be needed to take affectability preparing to precede the beginning of the 2021 season. 

Individual life 

Deegan is the girl of Brian Deegan, a motocross rider, rough terrain racer, and previous X Games, competitor. She went to Rancho Christian High School in her old neighborhood of Temecula, California. Deegan as of now parts time between her two homes in California and Mooresville, North Carolina.