Kelly Renae "Girl" Sutton (born September 24, 1971)^[1] is an American formerNASCAR driver. Sutton started 54 races, mostly in her family-owned No. 02Chevrolet Silverado, in theCraftsman Truck Series. She was the only stock-car racer, male or female, known to race withmultiple sclerosis beforeTrevor Bayne's diagnosis in 2013.

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 atOld 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.

Sutton would not race again until 1997 in theAllison 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 theOral B Close Brush Award.

In 2000, she advanced to theNASCAR 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.

Sutton made herNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut in 2003 atMemphis Motorsports Park, where she started 34th and finished 27th after suffering earlytransmission failure. She ran three more races that year, her best finish being a 19th at the season-endingFord 200. She made her first full-time bid for the championship in 2004, with sponsorship fromCopaxone. She finished seventh forNASCAR Rookie of the Year honors and 26th in championship points, her best points finish to date. Her best finish that season came atMansfield Motorsports Speedway, where she finished 20th. She returned in 2005, posting a career-best fifteenth-place run at theQuaker 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 withChris 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 driverJeff 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 spinningJason 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 atGateway International Raceway.

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

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]

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

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