Within the late-night hours following the opening Indy 500 apply session, experiences emerged that Katherine Legge will try the uncommon Indy 500/Coke 600 Double — this 12 months. Motorsport.com has since independently confirmed the information as nicely.
The 45-year-old is already confirmed to be participating within the a hundred and tenth operating of the Indianapolis 500, driving the No. 11 HMD Motorsports/AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet for her fifth look within the historic occasion.
Nonetheless, we now know that she additionally plans to participate within the 67th operating of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the identical day — Sunday, Could 24. If profitable (and weather-permitting), Legge would be the sixth driver in historical past to participate in each races on the identical day. Together with being the primary girl and first non-American driver to try the Double, Legge can even be the oldest.
“Only a few drivers ever get the chance to try ‘The Double,’ and I don’t take that chance frivolously,” stated Legge in a press launch. “This problem is about pushing via perceived limits, betting on your self, taking dangers and attempting to do one thing distinctive. I’m so extremely grateful to e.l.f. Cosmetics for believing in what this second represents and for constructing a group round it.”
Legge made her eighth profession Cup Sequence begin this previous weekend at Watkins Glen, and she’s going to once more drive the No. 78 Dwell Quick Motorsports Chevrolet at Charlotte Motor Speedway subsequent weekend.
e.l.f. Cosmetics will fund the hassle, together with already supporting her within the Indy 500 this 12 months.
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Katherine Legge, HMD Motorsports with AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet
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Two-time NASCAR Cup Sequence champion Kyle Larson is the latest driver to try to finish the 1,100-mile Double between IndyCar’s greatest race and NASCAR’s longest. Along with Larson, Robby Gordon, John Andretti, Kurt Busch, and Tony Stewart have additionally performed it. Stewart is the one driver to really full each lap, doing so in 2001.
Davy Jones additionally tried the Double in 1995, however he didn’t qualify for the 600.
Forward of final weekend’s Cup race at Watkins Glen, Legge expressed curiosity in making an attempt the Double, however acknowledged that it could rely on sponsorship and assist from e.l.f. Cosmetics. It seems that a deal has come collectively far prior to anybody anticipated, with this Double try coming collectively inside two weeks of race day.
Legge’s finest displaying within the Indy 500 got here in 2012, ending twenty second. Though she solely made her Cup debut simply over a 12 months in the past, she has accomplished a number of oval races in America’s prime inventory automobile racing division. Her finest end result got here within the 2025 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, ending seventeenth in the most effective non-drafting end result ever for Dwell Quick Motorsports. This could be Legge’s debut within the Coca-Cola 600, however she ran the NASCAR O’Reilly race on the observe final Could.
Whereas she is locked into the Indy 500 with no bumping this 12 months, we should look forward to the official variety of Coke 600 entries to be launched subsequent Monday to know if she should qualify her means into the NASCAR race.
Katherine Legge, No. 78 Dwell Quick Motorsports Chevrolet
Photograph by: Chris Graythen – Getty Photographs
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