Kelly Sutton

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Other people". Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Kelly Renae "Girl" Sutton (born September 24, 1971)[1] is an American former NASCAR driver. Sutton started 54 races, mostly in her family-owned No. 02 Chevrolet Silverado, in the Craftsman Truck Series. She was the only stock-car racer, male or female, known to race with multiple sclerosis before Trevor Bayne's diagnosis in 2013.

Beginnings

Sutton began racing at the age of 10 before her career was halted due to her diagnosis of MS at the age of sixteen. She resumed racing in 1992 at Old Dominion Speedway, driving in the Pro Mini Stock Series. During her first year of competition, Sutton won the Hard Charger and Sportsmanship awards. During her three years competing in the series, she won seven feature races and won the Most Popular Driver award all three years.

Return to racing

Sutton would not race again until 1997 in the Allison Pennsylvania Legacy Series. She won two feature races and the Most Popular Driver Award. The next year, she competed in the Parts Pro Truck Series, where she won one qualifying race and the Oral B Close Brush Award.

In 2000, she advanced to the NASCAR Dash Series, where she competed in two races and had a sixteenth-place finish. She posted her first top-ten in the division the following year, before competing full-time in 2002, winning the Most Popular Driver award and finishing third in rookie standings.

Craftsman Truck Series

Sutton made her NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut in 2003 at Memphis Motorsports Park, where she started 34th and finished 27th after suffering early transmission failure. She ran three more races that year, her best finish being a 19th at the season-ending Ford 200. She made her first full-time bid for the championship in 2004, with sponsorship from Copaxone. She finished seventh for NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors and 26th in championship points, her best points finish to date. Her best finish that season came at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, where she finished 20th. She returned in 2005, posting a career-best fifteenth-place run at the Quaker Steak and Lube 200, despite dropping to 29th in points. She had a big accident at Kansas during the season when she went upside down in turns 3 and 4 during the O'Reilly 250 after contact with Chris Fontaine, who had wrecked in front of her earlier.

In 2006, she competed in twelve races. During the O'Reilly 250 at Kansas, the same race she flipped in a year earlier, she had another bad accident, this time losing control of her truck on the backstretch and just missing an opening on the inside wall before slamming into the wall, almost flattening the driver's side of the truck. She was extracted from the truck to a local hospital, but she survived with minor injuries. Fellow NASCAR driver Jeff Fuller would have an accident almost similar to this later in the year in a Busch series race at Kentucky when he spun to avoid a spinning Jason Leffler and slammed into an opening on the inside wall, only it was the passenger side door that was flattened, and he survived with minor injuries. Brad Keselowski was hired to drive in two races that her team was entered in, but that she could not race in due to her injury. Her best finish was a nineteenth at Gateway International Raceway.

For 2007, she drove three races in the No. 51 truck for Billy Ballew Motorsports. In June 2007, Sutton finished 20th at the Toyota Tundra Milwaukee 200, her last race to date.

Motorcycle accident

On Sunday, April 7, 2013, Sutton was severely injured in a motorcycle accident while riding as a passenger. The person she was riding with died. She was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.[2]

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

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 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />NCTCScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Pts Ref
2003 Sutton Motorsports 02 Chevy DAY DAR MMR MAR CLT DOV TEX MEM
27 		MLW KAN KEN GTW MCH IRP NSH BRI RCH NHA
23 		CAL LVS
DNQ 		SBO TEX MAR PHO
35 		HOM
19 		63rd 340 [3]
2004 DAY
DNQ 		ATL
32 		MAR
DNQ 		MFD
20 		CLT
DNQ 		DOV
27 		TEX
30 		MEM
31 		MLW
25 		KAN
35 		KEN
23 		GTW
21 		MCH
25 		IRP
DNQ 		NSH
28 		BRI
DNQ 		RCH
DNQ 		NHA
24 		LVS
35 		CAL
25 		TEX
35 		MAR
34 		PHO
35 		DAR
36 		HOM
34 		26th 1432 [4]
2005 DAY
17 		CAL
26 		ATL
31 		MAR
27 		GTY
28 		MFD
26 		CLT
15 		DOV
31 		TEX
29 		MCH
DNQ 		MLW
DNQ 		KAN
31 		KEN
26 		MEM
20 		IRP
31 		NSH
36 		BRI
DNQ 		RCH
DNQ 		NHA
29 		LVS
28 		MAR
DNQ 		ATL
DNQ 		TEX
DNQ 		PHO
DNQ 		HOM
DNQ 		29th 1315 [5]
2006 DAY
29 		CAL
28 		ATL
QL† 		MAR GTY
19 		CLT
27 		MFD
21 		DOV
36 		TEX
24 		MCH
25 		MLW
32 		KAN
36 		KEN MEM IRP
25 		NSH
26 		BRI NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 34th 977 [6]
2007 Billy Ballew Motorsports 51 Chevy DAY CAL ATL MAR KAN
33 		CLT MFD
DNQ 		DOV TEX
33 		MCH MLW
20 		MEM KEN IRP NSH BRI GTW NHA LVS TAL MAR ATL TEX PHO HOM 66th 231 [7]
† - Qualified but replaced by Chad Chaffin.

Goody's Dash Series

NASCAR Goody's Dash Series results
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1995 N/A 02 Pontiac DAY FLO LAN MYB SUM HCY CAR STH
21Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BRI SUM GRE BGS MYB NSV FLO NWS VOL HCY HOM N/A 0 [8]
2000 N/A 02 Pontiac DAY
DNQScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MON STA JAC CAR CLT
DNQScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SBO ROU LOU SUM GRE SNM MYB
26Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BRI HCY JAC USA
16Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		LAN 46th 229 [9]
2001 DAY
21Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ROU
10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		DAR CLT
29Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		LOU JAC KEN SBO DAY
27Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		GRE SNM
12Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NRV MYB BRI ACE JAC USA
14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NSH 32nd 640 [10]
2002 DAY
11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		HAR
21Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ROU
22Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		LON
19Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		CLT
17Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		KEN
11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MEM
9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		GRE
18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SNM
22Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SBO
20Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MYB
22Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BRI
12Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MOT
14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ATL
15Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		12th 1585 [11]
2003 DAY
17Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		OGL
11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		CLT
19Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		SBO
10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		GRE
10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		KEN
10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BRI
15Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ATL
22Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		8th 965 [12]

References

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  1. ↑ Kelly Sutton Career Statistics
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