Katherine Legge will begin thirty eighth in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Sequence race at Watkins Glen, making her eighth profession begin and her first of the 2026 season. She is as soon as once more driving the No. 78 Stay Quick Motorsports Chevrolet with sponsorship from e.l.f. Cosmetics.
After she takes the checkered flag on the Glen, the British driver will journey on to Indiana as apply will get underway for the one hundred and tenth operating of the Indianapolis 500. Driving the No. 11 Chevrole in a joint effort between HMD Motorsports and A.J. Foyt Enterprises, Legge might be making her fifth look within the crown jewel occasion of IndyCar. She is going to as soon as once more associate with e.l.f. for the five hundred.
After making a number of begins in each the Cup and O’Reilly Sequence in the course of the 2025 season, many started to surprise if she would think about an Indy 500/Coke 600 Double. She appeared when requested, and Legge stays intrigued by the problem, nevertheless it all comes right down to sponsorship.
The subsequent driver to run the Indy 500/Coke 600 Double?
Katherine Legge, Dale Coyne Racing with RWR Honda
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“Sure. I feel it might be superior,” mentioned Legge. “Proper? I feel lots of people have talked about that, and I feel it might undoubtedly be one thing that e.l.f. can be prepared to do, as a result of they wish to do all of the groundbreaking, actually cool stuff there. I hope that I get the chance sooner or later down the highway.”
Two-time NASCAR Cup Sequence champion Kyle Larson is the latest driver to try to finish the 1,100-mile Double between IndyCar’s largest race and NASCAR’s longest. He was simply the fifth driver to ever run each races on the identical day, however Tony Stewart stays the one driver to efficiently full all 1,100 miles / 600 laps (2001).
Legge has loads of expertise in a few of the largest endurance races in North America, and the 45-year-old is assured she has what it takes to run the Double if the chance introduced itself. If she did observe by means of, Legge can be the oldest driver to ever try the uncommon feat.
“I feel I am in a singular place the place I’ve finished a number of miles in no matter I’ve pushed,” mentioned Legge. “You recognize, I used to be telling any individual the opposite day that it was right here, like, 2017 or one thing, the place I did a triple stint within the automobile, and I bought out, and I actually fell over the pit wall as a result of it was 100 levels outdoors. And so they gave me IVs, and I am like, I do not know if I can get again in from my subsequent stint. And so they gave me two IVs, and, actually, 10 minutes later, I used to be like, okay, let’s go. I feel my endurance is fairly sturdy. We practice all 12 months. Numerous us practice over right here to have the ability to maintain our coronary heart fee on the 160 to 180 vary, which is what it’s within the automobile for a number of hours at a time. It turns into extra of a problem for not consuming for that lengthy for me as a result of I am all the time hungry. However I feel I’ve finished a lot racing over longer durations of time that I hope that would not be a difficulty. I am as match as I’ve ever been. In all probability fitter. I do not know. Hopefully sooner or later, I will get the chance to place that to the take a look at.”
Legge praises NASCAR racing
Katherine Legge, Chevrolet
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Talking extra on her current journey into NASCAR, Legge mentioned of the game: “I feel I did not understand how superior NASCAR can be. Clearly, I knew how troublesome it might be as a result of they’re a few of the greatest drivers on the earth. I nonetheless have a love for IndyCar and the Indy 500, particularly. So I hope that I nonetheless get to do the Indy 500, however so far as the opposite races, I form of pushing actually onerous to do extra within the NASCAR area simply because I feel that I could possibly be good at it, if I used to be given the chance to do it, week in, week out, or not less than extra usually. And I wish to get to the purpose the place I really feel like, okay, that is pretty much as good as I can get, whether or not that is P1, P10, P20, no matter that is perhaps. I wish to see the place that leads me.”
Legge’s greatest consequence thus far got here within the 2025 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, incomes Stay Quick Motorsports its greatest end ever at a non-drafting monitor by securing seventeenth place. Legge additionally believes she has extra to supply behind the wheel of a NASCAR inventory automobile.
“…I really feel like I have not proven my potential but, and I wish to, and I wish to make a hit in inventory vehicles. And so, so long as I get the chance, I imply, I work onerous for it, too, however so long as the chance is there, after all, I will take it, as a result of I’ve a love for the game greater than something I wish to drive something that I can get my palms on. And the cooler, the higher, and there is nothing cooler than NASCAR Cup, proper?”
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