While the daughter of most decorated athlete in the history of action sports may not receive her driver’s license until July, Hailie Deegan has achieved more behind the wheel in the past four years than most enthusiasts will achieve in a lifetime. Only one season beyond a historical Modified Kart title, and four years since clinching the Junior 2 Kart championship, Hailie has her focus set on becoming the first woman to come out on top after eight high-octane Pro Light contests amongst a crowded field of drivers in the 2017 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series (LOORRS).

Despite growing up fully-immersed in off-road culture, the ambitious teen racer is laser-focused on claiming her destiny on the asphalt oval. The past year has witnessed Hailie competing against 15 candidates for the NASCAR Drive for Diversity development program in Florida, test driving a Super Late Model in California and racing a Legends Car in Nevada.

Until her and her father find a place to hang her stock car helmet, Hailie will be piloting a revamped Pro-Lite machine formerly driven by 2016 runner-up, Brandon Arthur, in the dirt, riding Mickey Thompson Tires under her father’s banner. While most teenagers might shy away from an accelerated lifestyle that leaves little time for little else, Hailie easily dismisses potential social losses as a necessary sacrifice for the life she wants to live.

“I know I have to give up a normal social life. I think it just revolves around all of our lives, like forever, ever since the beginning,” Hailie told LOORRS, “All I’ve seen my dad do is race, so instantly that’s the first thing I want to do. When doors open for me, there’s no reason I shouldn’t – and I love doing it.”

The 2017 LOORRS will take Hailie and her dad to seven stops across the country (after the first LOORRS event was cancelled due to heavy southern California rain) which will take up at least 15 percent of her weekends. The rest of the year will be devoted to home-schooling and pursuing her stock car dreams on the East Coast where her family owns a home.

“Eventually I want to make it to NASCAR, but I’ll always come back to off-road for the races and stuff because that what I love,” Hailie tells LOORS, “I can relate to people that race. I know off-road will always be there.”

Learn more about the 2017 LOORRS season here.