is leaving .
Monday, launched a full-time switch to open-wheel racing. Subsequent season she’s going to run a full 14-race season in Indy NXT, a development sequence for IndyCar.
will pilot the No. 38 journey for HMD Motorsports.
“I am excited regarding the different and wait for working with a confirmed program in HMD Motorsports,” Deegan acknowledged in a launch. “I’ve rather a lot to check, nonetheless I can go. The group brings a wealth of data for me to tug from, and I wait for absorbing as a number of that as doable sooner than my race debut subsequent March in St. Petersburg.”
The daughter of action-sports star Brian Deegan, she accomplished third inside the ARCA standings in 2020, incomes a shot inside the NASCAR Truck Sequence. She spent three seasons there sooner than for the first half of 2024.
Deegan was unable to duplicate her ARCA success inside the Truck and Xfinity Sequence. She posted merely 5 top-10s in 85 begins and under no circumstances acquired.
On Friday, Deegan is scheduled to take a look at the Indy NXT vehicle on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway avenue course.
“Hailie, and notably the Deegan determine, are huge in motorsports, and we welcome them to the HMD Motorsports family,” HMD President Mike Maurini acknowledged. “Hailie has already been out to the shop and is taking the switch to open-wheel racing critically.”
HMD’s lineup for subsequent yr moreover consists of Caio Collet, Josh Pieson, Tommy Smith and Bryce Aron.
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