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 Reside 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 follow will get underway for the one hundred and tenth working 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’s going to as soon as once more accomplice with e.l.f. for the five hundred.
After making a number of begins in each the Cup and O’Reilly Sequence through the 2025 season, many started to surprise if she would take into account an Indy 500/Coke 600 Double. She appeared when requested, and Legge stays intrigued by the problem, however it all comes all the way down to sponsorship.
The following driver to run the Indy 500/Coke 600 Double?
Katherine Legge, Dale Coyne Racing with RWR Honda
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“Sure. I believe it might be superior,” mentioned Legge. “Proper? I believe lots of people have talked about that, and I believe it might positively be one thing that e.l.f. could 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 street.”
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 among 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 comply with via, Legge could be the oldest driver to ever try the uncommon feat.
“I believe I am in a singular place the place I’ve completed a variety of miles in no matter I’ve pushed,” mentioned Legge. “You already know, 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 received out, and I actually fell over the pit wall as a result of it was 100 levels exterior. 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 believe my endurance is fairly sturdy. We prepare all yr. A number of us prepare over right here to have the ability to maintain our coronary heart price 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 believe I’ve completed 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. Most likely fitter. I do not know. Hopefully sooner or later, I am going to 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 latest journey into NASCAR, Legge mentioned of the game: “I believe I did not understand how superior NASCAR could be. Clearly, I knew how tough it might be as a result of they’re among the finest drivers on the planet. 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 type of pushing actually laborious to do extra within the NASCAR house simply because I believe that I could possibly be good at it, if I used to be given the chance to do it, week in, week out, or a minimum of extra typically. And I wish to get to the purpose the place I really feel like, okay, that is nearly as good as I can get, whether or not that is P1, P10, P20, no matter that may be. I wish to see the place that leads me.”
Legge’s finest consequence to date got here within the 2025 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, incomes Reside Quick Motorsports its finest end ever at a non-drafting observe 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 automobiles. And so, so long as I get the chance, I imply, I work laborious for it, too, however so long as the chance is there, in fact, 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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