Owen Kelly

Owen Kelly Kelly at Road America in 2013 Born (1977-03-12) 12 March 1977 Devonport, Tasmania, Australia NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career 1 race(s) run over 1 year(s) 2013 position 63rd Best finish 63rd (2013) First race 2013 Cheez-It 355 at The Glen (Watkins Glen) NASCAR Nationwide Series career 3 race(s) run over 2 year(s) Car no., team No. 54 (Joe Gibbs Racing) 2013 position 53rd Best finish 53rd (2013) First race 2010 Bucyrus 200 (Road America) Last race 2013 Nationwide Children's Hospital 200 (Mid-Ohio) Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 0 Statistics current as of November 17, 2013. Previous series 1998–2000 2000–01 2001–04, 2007 2001–11 2008–09 2009 Australian Formula Ford Ch. Australian Super Touring Development V8 Supercar V8 Supercar UARA Stars Late Models Rolex Sports Car Series 2013 NASCAR Nationwide car at Road America

Owen Kelly (born 12 March 1977) is an Australian racing driver. Son of Chas Kelly, he has competed over the course of his career in V8 Supercars and NASCAR among other series.

Career

Kelly started his circuit racing career in Formula Ford for three seasons, progressing to V8 Supercars in 2000. From there he has raced in Super Touring, V8 Supercars and NASCAR Late models. Late in the 2007 V8 Supercar season he was picked up as a full-time driver for Paul Morris Motorsport replacing Fabian Coulthard.

2010 NASCAR Nationwide car at Road America

In 2008 Kelly raced an asphault late model, for Dale Earnhardt Jr., at Motormile Speedway in Radford, VA. He wanted to pursue a career in NASCAR and hoped to move up the ladder to get the necessary experience (Kelly started at the weekly track championship level). In June 2010, Kelly made his NASCAR debut in the Nationwide Series, driving for Baker Curb Racing at the Road America road course.^[1] He started ninth and finished fifth.^[1] K1 Speed sponsored the car. For 2011, Owen Kelly made no official start in the series but relief drove for Marcos Ambrose at Montreal who was in Michigan for the Sprint Cup Series race. He practiced and qualified the car while Kelly turned the wheel to Ambrose for the race. It turned up that Ambrose actually won the race in that car. In 2012 he practiced and qualified a car again, this time for Kyle Busch who ran his first race at Montreal since 2009. Busch finished tenth in the race after starting from the back of the field due to the driver change. It ended up that Kelly did not end up making any other attempts in 2012 and Ambrose did not run the Montreal race that year.

After a strong performance for Kyle Busch Motorsports at Road America in the Nationwide Series in 2013, it was announced that Kelly would make his debut in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 51 for Phoenix Racing, at Watkins Glen International in August of that year.^[2] Kelly finished 24th.^[3]

Motorsports career results

V8 Supercar results

Complete Rolex Sports Car Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

NASCAR

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

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

NASCAR Nationwide Series

^* Season in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Owen Kelly.

• Owen Kelly driver statistics at Racing Reference
• Owen Kelly at Driver Database