No. 78 Chevrolet by e.l.f. Cosmetics<\/a>, but will also be sponsored by Desnuda Organic Tequila and Indiana-based venture studio Droplight in the Brickyard races.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s always an honor to drive at Indy, but having the chance to compete in both the Cup and Xfinity races thanks to Desnuda and Droplight is going to be epic,\u201d Legge said in a statement. \u201cAfter racing in the Indy 500 in (2023 and 2024), I definitely felt a void not being there this year. But adding races to my schedule is exactly what I\u2019ve been working toward \u2014competing in as many events as possible and logging as many laps as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Legge has been competing in NASCAR off-and-on since 2018. That season, she placed 14th in the Xfinity race at the Road America course, which still stands as her best finish in the sport. The native of Surrey, England has competed in many varieties of motorsports over the past two decades, from Indy Cars to Formula E, and from the A1 Grand Prix to the 24 Hours of Daytona. She still holds the record for the fastest qualifying time by a woman at the Indy 500 and was the first woman to win a major open-wheel race in North America.<\/p>\n
But NASCAR seems to be the hill that Legge has set her sights on climbing next. Her manager Klint Briney says they\u2019re already lining up opportunities for her in the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cKatherine\u2019s momentum this season is no accident \u2014 we\u2019ve been intentional to align with the right opportunities and partners who believe in our vision,\u201d Briney said. \u201cAs we look toward 2026, we\u2019re already exploring next steps in NASCAR and beyond, with a focus on securing strategic sponsorships that position her for marquee events and expanded opportunities ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katherine Legge has raced at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway before, but never in a stockcar. That\u2019ll change later…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1699,1479,11822,11820,10529,2250,424,417,11819,11816,11818,11817,6331,425,10119,11821,5190,99,1596,1974,826,1765],"class_list":["post-11965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-all-womens-sports","tag-at","tag-breakaway-playbook-2025","tag-brickyard","tag-com","tag-events","tag-front-page","tag-in","tag-including","tag-katherine","tag-least","tag-legge","tag-more","tag-nascar","tag-race","tag-sbnation","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-this","tag-to","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}