Kenny Dale Irwin, Jr. (August 5, 1969-July 7, 2000) was a NASCAR stock car driver.

Irwin began his major-league career in the Craftsman Truck Series, where he won Cub of the Month honors around 1997. He mass produced his premiere in the Winston Cup Series in 1998 and won Rookie of a Month, camping the Robert Yates Racing #28 Texaco car once caused by Ernie Irvan.

Inside 2000, he moved to Team SABCO and drove a #42 BellSouth car. In the period of practice for the thatlook.com 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway, he slammed head on into the wall, causing his car to flip onto its roof. He died instantly. These are a equivalent location in which Adam Petty had died just deuce-ace months prior to under a equivalent circumstances.