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Owen Kelly Born (1977-03-12) 12 March 1977 (age 36) Devonport, Tasmania, Australia NASCAR Nationwide Series career 1 race(s) run over 1 year(s) Best finish 100th – 2010 First race 2010 Bucyrus 200 (Road America) Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0 Statistics current as of 17 August 2012. Previous series 1998–2000 2000–01 2001–04, 2007 2001–11 2008–09 2009 Australian Formula Ford Australian Super Touring Development V8 Supercar V8 Supercar UARA Stars Late Models Rolex Sports Car Series 2010 NASCAR Nationwide car at Road America

Owen Kelly, born 12 March 1977, in Tasmania, Australia. Known as a professional race car driver. Son of millionaire, NASCAR and Targa road rally racer Chas Kelly. 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 NascarLate 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 asphault late model, for Dale Earnhardt Jr., at Motormile Speedway in Radford, VA. He wants to pursue a career in NASCAR and hoped to move up the ladder to get the necessary experience. Kelly is starting from the bottom 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]

Career results [edit]

V8 Supercar results [edit]

Complete Rolex Sports Car Series results [edit]

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

NASCAR Nationwide Series [edit]

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

^† Qualified for Marcos Ambrose.
^‡ Qualified for Kyle Busch.

* Season in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

Nascar Nationwide Series Career [edit]

In 2010, Kelly made his debut driving the 27 car for Baker Curb Racing at Road America. He started 9th and finished 5th. 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 race. He practiced and qualified the car while Kelly turned the wheel to Ambrose for the race. It turned up that Marcos 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 Owen did not end up making any other attempts in 2012 and Marcos Ambrose did not run the Montreal race that year.

References [edit]

External links [edit]

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