Australian racing driver

NASCAR Xfinity Series career5 races run over 3 yearsCar no., teamNo. 18 (Joe Gibbs Racing)2016 position48thBest finish48th (2016)First race2010 Bucyrus 200 (Road America)Last race2016 Road America 180 (Road America)Previous series1998–2000
2000–01
2001–04, 2007
2001–11
2008–09
2009Australian Formula Ford Ch.
Australian Super Touring
Development V8 Supercar
V8 Supercar
UARA Stars Late Models
Rolex Sports Car SeriesStatistics current as of 27 August 2016.

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

Contents

• 1 Racing career
• 2 Motorsports career results
  • 2.1 V8 Supercar results
  • 2.2 Complete Rolex Sports Car Series results
  • 2.3 NASCAR
    • 2.3.1 Sprint Cup Series
    • 2.3.2 Xfinity Series
  • 2.4 Complete Bathurst 1000 results
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Racing career

2013 NASCAR Nationwide car at Road America

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.

In 2008 Kelly raced an asphalt 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. He started ninth and finished fifth. 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. Kelly finished 24th.

Kelly is of no relation to Todd or Rick Kelly, the latter he co-drove with at the 2010 and 2011 Bathurst 1000s.

Motorsports career results

V8 Supercar results

Complete Rolex Sports Car Series results

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

NASCAR

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

Sprint Cup Series

Xfinity Series

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

* Events highlighted in green denote designated co-driver role

‡Kelly practiced but did not start due to illness.

References

External links

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

Xfinity SeriesARCA Menards SeriesNASCAR Hall of Fame

• Joe Gibbs
• Dale Jarrett
• Matt Kenseth
• Bobby Labonte
• Mark Martin
• Tony Stewart

Former driversNASCAR Cup Series Championships

• 2000 (B. Labonte)
• 2002 (Stewart)
• 2005 (Stewart)
• 2015 (Ky. Busch)
• 2019 (Ky. Busch)

NASCAR Xfinity Series ChampionshipsARCA Menards Series Championships

• 2021 (T. Gibbs)

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East / ARCA East Championships

• 2007 (Logano)
• 2011 (Gresham)
• 2021 (S. Smith)

Daytona 500 wins

• 1993 (D. Jarrett)
• 2016 (Hamlin)
• 2019 (Hamlin)
• 2020 (Hamlin)

Brickyard 400 wins

• 2000 (B. Labonte)
• 2005 (Stewart)
• 2007 (Stewart)
• 2015 (Ky. Busch)
• 2016 (Ky. Busch)

Coca-Cola 600 wins

• 1995 (B. Labonte)
• 2015 (Edwards)
• 2018 (Ky. Busch)
• 2019 (M. Truex)

Southern 500 wins

• 2000 (B. Labonte)
• 2008 (Ky. Busch)
• 2010 (Hamlin)
• 2013 (Kenseth)
• 2015 (Edwards)
• 2017 (Hamlin)
• 2019 (E. Jones)
• 2021 (Hamlin)

GEICO 500 wins

• 2008 (Ky. Busch)
• 2014 (Hamlin)

All-Star Race wins

• 2015 (Hamlin)
• 2017 (Ky. Busch)

Busch Clash wins

• 2001 (Stewart)
• 2002 (Stewart)
• 2006 (Hamlin)
• 2007 (Stewart)
• 2012 (Ky. Busch)
• 2014 (Hamlin)
• 2015 (Kenseth)
• 2016 (Hamlin)
• 2020 (E. Jones)
• 2021 (Ky. Busch)

Partnerships and affiliations

• Toyota Racing Development
• 23XI Racing
• Sam Hunt Racing
• SQR Development
• Kyle Busch Motorsports
• Venturini Motorsports

Super Late ModelFormer drivers

• Loy Allen Jr.
• A. J. Allmendinger
• Aric Almirola
• Johnny Benson Jr.
• Mike Bliss
• Geoff Bodine
• Neil Bonnett
• James Buescher
• Kurt Busch
• Nathan Buttke
• Rick Carelli
• Landon C*ill
• Terry Cook
• Kertus Davis
• Austin Dillon
• Bill Elliott
• Ron Fellows
• Brendan Gaughan
• David Gilliland
• Bobby Hamilton
• Bobby Hamilton Jr.
• Andy Hillenburg
• Matt Hutter
• Ernie Irvan
• Buckshot Jones
• Erik Jones
• P. J. Jones
• Jason Keller
• Owen Kelly
• Brad Keselowski
• Bobby Labonte
• Randy LaJoie
• Kevin Lepage
• Jan Magnussen
• Sterling Marlin
• Jeremy Mayfield
• Eric McClure
• Jamie McMurray
• Casey Mears
• Ryan Newman
• Scott Pruett
• Jeff Purvis
• Tony Raines
• David Reutimann
• Casey Roderick
• Joe Ruttman
• Boris Said
• Johnny Sauter
• Dennis Setzer
• Regan Smith
• Reed Sorenson
• Jimmy Spencer
• David Stremme
• Kerry Teague
• Martin Truex Jr.
• Ryan Truex
• Jacques Villeneuve
• Mike Wallace

NASCAR Hall of Fame

• Bill Elliott
• Bobby Labonte

Aaron's 499 wins

• 2009 (Keselowski)

Partnerships and affiliations

• Billy Ballew Motorsports
• Wauters Motorsports

Buyouts and mergers

• HScott Motorsports
• Turner Scott Motorsports