Katherine Legge didn’t wait lengthy to get after being thrown.
Lower than a month after getting wrecked in her first superspeedway stock-car begin, the British racer will make her debut this coming weekend at Phoenix Raceway.
Dwell Quick Motorsports, BJ McLeod’s five-year-old group, will put Legge within the No. 78 Chevrolet for Sunday’s Shriners Kids’s 500. She’ll be the primary feminine racer in a Cup Sequence race since Danica Patrick competed in a single last Daytona 500 in 2018.
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“Getting into the NASCAR Cup Sequence is a dream come true,” mentioned Legge, who mentioned her current stock-car efforts have “given me a renewed sense of vigor for this sport.”
The 44-year-old veteran sports-car and IndyCar racer entered the ARCA 200 at Daytona final month, however the effort didn’t final lengthy. Legge was collected in a 15-car crash on Lap 4 of the 80-lap race.
NASCAR not completely new to Katherine Legge
Technically this might be Legge’s sixth NASCAR begin. She ran 4 Xfinity Sequence races in 2018 and one other in 2023, 4 of them on street programs, with a greatest end of 14th at Elkhart Lake. Phoenix is a one-mile oval.
Legge’s 47 profession IndyCar begins embrace 4 Indianapolis 500s. Most of her racing success has are available sports-car racing, the place she’s been a part of 4 class-winning efforts and drove for 12 Rolex 24 groups, together with a runner-up run within the 2018 Rolex in an Acura GT3.
“This partnership displays our dedication to offering alternatives for drivers making their manner into the NASCAR Cup collection within the Subsequent Gen period,” sais Jessica McCleod, co-owner and CEO of Dwell Quick, which has made 130 Cup begins since 2020, most of them with BJ McLeod behind the wheel.
The group has posted simply two top-10s throughout these years however made essentially the most of NASCAR’s “constitution period” of group possession. After the 2023 season, McLeod offered his constitution to Spire Motorsports for a reported $40 million and has been a part-time group ever since.
McLeod made 5 begins within the group’s automobile final 12 months. After failing to make the sector for the Daytona 500 to start out this season, McLeod drove the automobile to a Twenty second-place end two weekends in the past at Atlanta.
