Katherine Legge to make the NASCAR CUP -DEBUT, FIRST WOMAN RACER IN 7 YEARS

Live Fixed Motorsports, co-owned by Driver BJ McLeod and wife Jessica McLeod, Field A part-time input in the Cup series. BJ MCLEOD ended 22. With only 37 items intended for Phoenix, Legge is secured a starting place on Sunday.

What to know about Legge’s Motor Sports Care and Women in Nascar:

Katherine Legge’s car racing career

Legge, born in Guildford, England, has five starts in the NASCAR XFINITY series, most recently by 2023, when she recorded her best finish: 14 at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. In February she ended the 39th of the Arca Menards series ‘Ride’ Dente Race at Daytona International Speedway.

However, Legge is best known as an Indycar driver competing in 19 races in the NTT Indycar series in Four Seasons (2012, 2013, 2023 and 2024) and 28 in Cart (2006 and 2007), earned a combined seven top-10s.

She has run in the legendary Indianapolis 500 four times, and by 2023 she set the record for the fastest qualification time ever of a woman.

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Sports seriously

Legge’s biggest success has come as a sports car driver. She has competed in 92 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship Races Sine 2014, won four times and scored 11 podium finishes.

Nascar Quoted Legge’s recent participation on “High-Speed ​​Ovals” by approving her to run in the cup series.

When was the last time a woman competed in the NASCAR CUP series?

Danica Patrick was the last woman to competed in the Nascar Cup series.

Her last race was 2018 Daytona 500, where she finished 35. In total, Patrick started 191 cup starts between 2012 and 2018 and gathered seven top-10 finishes during that time. Twice, Patrick finished the top-25 in the NASCAR CUP series located and ended 24 in both 2015 and 2016.

Sixteen female drivers have run at least one race in the cup series, including the Hall of Famer Janet Guthrie, who ran in 33 races between 1976-80. Nascar Hall of Fame awarded the Guthrie the Landmark Award in 2024.