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Kelly "Girl"
Sutton
Racing Biography
HOMETOWN: Crownsville, Md.
BIRTHDATE: 1971
DAUGHTER: Ashlee — 15
AGE: 33
2004 Rookie Season Highlights
- First person with multiple sclerosis (relapsing-remitting)
known to race in any NASCAR Series
- Seven top-25 finishes in 2004 (Mansfield, Milwaukee , Kentucky,
St. Louis, Michigan, Loudon, California)
- Finished 26th in overall point standings
- Best finishes of the season: 20th place, lead lap finish at
Mansfield; 21st place finish at St. Louis
- Best Qualifying: 14th at Las Vegas (9/25)
- Honored with 2004 Gene Autry Courage Award by Angels Care and
the Tempe Sports Authority
- Kelly's sponsor markets the drug she takes to help her manage
her disease
- Holds record for best start by a female in the NCTS at:
- Las Vegas (14th)
- Loudon (20th t. Tami Jo Kirk)
- California (23rd)
- Homestead (27th)
- Gateway (30th t. Angie Wilson)
- Holds record for best finish by a female in the NCTS at:
- Daytona (17th)
- Mansfield (20th)
- Gateway (21st)
MS Backgrounder
- More than 400,000 Americans have been diagnosed with MS
- Most people are diagnosed between the ages of 20-50
- MS affects two to three times as many women as men
- MS affects an estimated 2.5 million people worldwide and an
additional 200 are diagnosed every week.*
*From the National Multiple Sclerosis Society web site,
www.nmss.org
Road to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
- 2003 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN TRUCK SERIES
- Competed in four races Memphis (27th), Loudon (23rd), Phoenix
(35th), Homestead (19th)
- 2003 GOODY'S DASH SERIES, NASCAR TOURING DIVISION
- Competed in all nine races with three consecutive top-ten
finishes in June/July
- Finished 8th in overall points
- Honored with 2003 Wilma Rudolph Courage Award by the Women's
Sports Foundation
- 2000 — 2002 GOODY'S DASH SERIES, NASCAR TOURING DIVISION
- Competed in 22 races
- Finished 12th in overall points — 2002
- Most Popular Driver Award — 2002
- Finished third in Rookie of the Year standings —2002
- 1998 PARTS PRO TRUCK SERIES
- Won one qualifying race
- Won Oral B Close Brush Award
- 1997 ALLISON NATIONAL LEGACY SERIES
- First woman to win regionally or nationally
- 1997 ALLISON LEGACY PENNSYLVANIA SERIES
- Won two feature and three pole positions
- Won Most Popular Driver Award
- 1992—1994 OLD DOMINION SPEEDWAY/PRO MINI-STOCK SERIES
- Won seven feature races, 20 qualifiers, and five pole positions
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