Fresh off of her mid-season split with NASCAR Xfinity Series team AM Racing, Hailie Deegan is broadening her horizons, starting this weekend at Lime Rock Park.
A native of Temecula, California, Deegan will be partnering with NASCAR legend Ken Schrader to compete in the SpeedTour All-Star Race event, piloting a Team SLR-M1 Racecars entry.
Deegan is a three-time champion in the Lucas Oil Off Road Pro Series, the only female driver to accomplish this feat, and to this day, remains the only youth driver to win the Lucas Oil Off Road Pro Series Driver of the Year award, an honor she collected at the age of 15.
Since 2018, Deegan has been working her way up the NASCAR ladder, winning three ARCA Menards Series West events on her way to NASCAR’s National Series, where she’s spent the last four seasons between the NASCAR Truck Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series.
Her 2023 campaign began by leading laps in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge event at Daytona International Speedway, where she recorded her first-ever podium.
Earlier this season, Deegan recorded a career-best 12th-place finish in the Xfinity Series at Talladega Superspeedway, driving for AM Racing.
Among the legendary names set to compete in this weekend’s event include NASCAR drivers Greg Biffle, Ron Hornaday, Bobby Labonte, Paul Menard, Ryan Newman, Mike Skinner, and Scott Speed. Ron Fellows, Davy Jones, Max Papis, and Boris Said are some other names that NASCAR fans may recognize.
The event will combine the legendary all-star drivers with today’s stars of the CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series. The duos will team up in TA2 spec racecars for a 60-minute race.
Each all-star driver will qualify and start the race, before a mid-race five-minute pit stop will allow for a driver change, handing the car over to the TA2 Series starts of today. All cars will have to pass through a standard inspection.
These drivers won’t just be racing for a trophy, as a $50,000 winner-takes-all prize will also be on the line for the race-winning team. The action begins on Friday, July 19, when the All-Star drivers will hit the racetrack for a 30-minute practice session.
