Among the subplots on Sunday will be Katherine Legge, who will become the eighth female driver to run a NASCAR race in the modern era (1972-2025) and the first since Danica Patrick made her final start at the Daytona 500 seven years ago.

Katherine Legge has raced in just about every series possible during her 25-year journey in professional motorsports, ranging from dirt tracks to IndyCar. Even so, she doesn't mind admitting to being nervous about potentially rubbing fenders with the likes of Joey Logano,

After 7 years of no women drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series, Katherine Legge will end that streak when she races at Phoenix Raceway this weekend.

This weekend's NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway will feature a new driver who will be making history. Per ESPN, Live Fast Motorsports announced Monday that Katherine Legge will make her Cup Series debut in Sunday's Shriners Children's 500 driving the No.

Katherine Legge will be the first woman since Danica Patrick in 2018 to race in the NASCAR Cup Series at Phoenix.

Katherine Legge narrowly avoided a catastrophe during the early stages of her NASCAR Cup Series debut after spinning out by herself at Phoenix Raceway.

With her debut today, Legge became only the 17th female driver to make a start in the NASCAR Cup Series. The last woman to race in the Cup Series was Danica Patrick, who has the most starts by a female driver with 191 after making her final start in 2018.

Katherine Legge isn’t here for tokenism. As the first woman to race NASCAR’s Next Gen car in Sunday’s Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway, the British driver didn’t hold back when addressing the sport’s gender gap.

"I want to stay out of trouble and show respect," Katherine Legge quipped ahead of the NASCAR Cup Series race in Phoenix. The post Katherine Legge Ready to Endure “Baptism of Fire” in NASCAR Again Despite Regretting an ‘Awful’ Mistake appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Katherine Legge's otherwise quiet NASCAR Cup Series debut took a turn on lap 216 of Sunday's Shriners Children's 500 at Phoenix. Legge was running in 28th-place when she got loose on the exit of Turn 2.