Cameron Hayley

**Cameron Hayley** (born July 21, 1996) is a Canadian professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series for Red Bull Racing. Hayley won the K&N Pro Series race at the inaugural UNOH Battle at the Beach at Daytona International Speedway in 2013. He is the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion. He is also the 2020 and 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion. He is depicted as the biggest NASCAR talent since Kyle Busch.

## Racing Career

In 2011, at the age of 15, Hayley began racing in the regional K&N Pro Series West for longtime owner Bill McAnally. Hayley became the youngest driver ever to run a NASCAR sanctioned race. Hayley ran four races that season, and the full 2012 season for McAnally, scoring seven top fives and 11 top tens in total. Hayley was also named to the NASCAR Next 9, along with future national series drivers Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, Dylan Kwasniewski, Corey LaJoie, Kyle Larson, and Daniel Suárez. For 2013, Hayley moved to Glen Price Motorsports. Hayley won the exhibition UNOH Battle at the Beach (the successor to the Toyota All-Star Showdown) at Daytona to open the season. Hayley scored his first points-paying West Series victory at All American Speedway. The win, along with 6 poles and 12 top five finishes led Hayley to a second-place finish in points. Hayley also made his debut in the K&N Pro Series East at Richmond, and ran two races in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series for D. J. Kennington.

For 2014, Hayley moved to the K&N Pro Series East full-time with Turner Scott Motorsports, driving the No. 98 Chevrolet Impala that had won the championship the year before with Dylan Kwasniewski. Hayley earned a pole and seven top fives to finish second in points behind teammate Ben Rhodes.

Also in 2014, Hayley made the drive to Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, WA for the 2014 Summer Showdown with his Cabinets By Hayley Super Late Model team. He started on the pole and led every lap to claim the $25,000 winners purse.

Hayley would also make his national series debut in the Camping World Truck Series in TSM's No. 32 Chevrolet Silverado at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Ontario. Hayley ran three races for TSM in the Truck Series, with a sixth-place finish at Loudon.

For 2015, Hayley was signed by ThorSport Racing to drive their No. 13 Toyota Tundra. He had a solid season by finishing 6th in points, runner up to Erik Jones for the rookie of the year title.

In 2016, Hayley returned to ThorSport. He would the season off with 5 consecutive top 5 finishes of 5th, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 4th. Hayley would go onto qualify for the 7th spot in The Chase.

In 2017, Hayley was gonna end up leaving the team due to sponsorship issues but Red Bull Racing signed Hayley to their developmental program. Red Bull partnered with ThorSport to develop Hayley for 2 more seasons in the truck series before he would move to their Xfinity Series team in 2019. With a full 3 year plan in place, Hayley could focus on proving himself worthy to drive in the Cup Series someday. Hayley got 8 top 5 finishes and 12 top 10 finishes in the first 16 races of the 2017 season. He would qualify 7th again for the chase. In the 7 chase races, Hayley would gain finishes of 9th, 3rd, 4th, 3rd, 1st, 8th, and 10th. He scored his first career win in the JAG Metals 350 at Texas which punched his ticket to the Championship 4. Hayley ran in the top 5 the whole race, being a high of 3rd of the championship runners but would fall to 4th and finish in that same spot to end the season.

For 2018, Red Bull decided that Hayley would need another season in the truck series before moving up the ladder. If Hayley could get at least 2-3 wins in 2018, he would be ready to move up, if not he would be released from the developmental program. Hayley would go on to deliver one of the most dominate seasons in modern NASCAR history. Hayley would finish inside the top 5 for 18/23 races, he would finish inside the top 10 for 21/23 races with two DNFS at Daytona and Talladega. Cameron would also get 3 wins in the regular season in the Alpha Energy Solutions 250 at Martinsville, M&Ms 250 at Iowa, and Corrigan Oil 200 at Michigan. Hayley entered the playoffs in the lead with a huge points gap above the cutline of 50 points. Hayley would then go on to get the following results in the playoffs: 2nd, 1st, 1st, 4th, 1st, 1st, and 1st. He would win 5/7 races in the playoffs, leaving the rest of the field behind by the time round 1 ended and didn't look back. He would win the 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship.

In 2019, Cameron left ThorSport and finally officially joined Red Bull's team in the #83 Toyota Camry in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The young Canadian did as everyone predicted, he went out and won. In his rookie season with the team, and no prior Xfinity Series experience, Cameron won in just his second Xfinity Series start at the 2019 Rinnai 250 at Atlanta. Cameron got 3 more wins in the regular season at the 2019 Production Alliance Group 300 at Auto Club, 2019 Camping World 300 at Chicagoland, and the 2019 Zippo 200 At The Glen. Cameron went winless in the playoffs but was able to point his way through them to a 4th place finish as a Championship 4 contender.

In 2020, Cameron returned to the Xfinity Series. With already 4 wins in 33 races, Cameron looked to have even more in the next 33. Despite the Covid effect on the season, Cameron downright dominated. In the regular season, he won the 2020 LS Tractor 200 at Phoenix, 2020 Contender Boats 250 at Homestead, 2020 Pennzoil 150 at Indianapolis, 2020 Kansas Lottery 250, 2020 Wawa 250 at Daytona, and the 2020 Go Bowling 250 at Richmond all in the regular season with nearly a 100 point lap over the cut-line enter the playoffs. His playoff results are this: 2nd, 8th, 20th, 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st. To start the playoffs, the first round was rough and many people wondered if the system was gonna rig Cameron out of the championship. But the final 4 races of the season were all won by Cameron in dominant fashion. Cameron Hayley was the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion.

In 2021, Red Bull decided to keep Cameron in the Xfinity Series for the season. Cameron was originally supposed to replace the retiring Kasey Kahne in the #83 car but after Kahne's surprise final 4 appearance, the team and Kahne agreed on 1 more season.