Career
She was the only racer, male or female, known to race with multiple sclerosis before Trevor Bayne was diagnosed in 2013. Sutton began racing at the age of 10 before her career was halted due to her diagnosis of Mississippi at the age of sixteen. She resumed racing in 1992 at Old Dominion Speedway, driving in the Pro Mini Stock Series.
Sutton would not race again until 1997 in the Allison Pennsylvania Legacy Series.
In 2000, she advanced to the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Dash Series, where she competed in two races and had a sixteenth-place finish. She posted her first top-ten in the division the following year, before competing full-time in 2002, winning the Most Popular Driver award and finishing third in rookie standings.
Sutton made her National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Camping World Truck Series debut in 2003 at Memphis Motorsports Park, where she started 34th and finished 27th after suffering early transmission failure. She ran three more races that year, her best finish being a 19th at the season-ending Ford 200.
She made her first full-time bid for the championship in 2004, with sponsorship from Copaxone.
Her best finish that season came at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, where she finished 20th. She returned in 2005, posting a career-best fifteenth-place run at the Quaker Steak and Lube 200, despite dropping to 29th in points. In 2006, she competed in twelve races, missing two races due to injury.
Brad Keselowski was hired to drive the two races that her team was entered in, but that she could not race in due to her injury.
Her best finish was a nineteenth at Gateway International Raceway. Foreign 2007, she drove three races in the #51 truck for Billy Ballew Motorsports.
In June 2007, Sutton finished 20th at the Toyota Tundra Milwaukee 200, her last race to date. On Sunday, April 7, 2013, Sutton was severely injured in a motorcycle accident while riding as a passenger.
The person she was riding with died.
She was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
