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Katherine Legge’s eventful NASCAR Cup debut ends 100 laps shy of the end
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Katherine Legge’s eventful NASCAR Cup debut ends 100 laps shy of the end

By Miles Cooper March 10, 2025
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Katherine Legge’s purpose in her first-ever NASCAR Cup Sequence race was “to be respectful of the leaders and keep out of the way in which.” Driving the No. 78 Dwell Quick Motorsports Chevrolet, she began from the rear of the 37-car subject and deliberate to do exactly that. 

Battling an unstable race automotive, the British racing driver spun early within the race, forcing the primary warning flag to fly. Fortunately, she prevented each the inside and outside partitions and managed to straighten the automotive out.

“Guys, sorry, I am so tight,” she radioed to the staff. “I’ve a lot wheel in it that it received free on exit.”

Katherine Legge’s eventful NASCAR Cup debut ends 100 laps shy of the end

Katherine Legge, Dwell Quick Motorsports Chevrolet

Photograph by: Jonathan Bachman – Getty Photographs

After that, she quietly logged laps and steadily climbed as much as twenty eighth place within the working order. Nonetheless, with slightly below 100 laps to go, she pushed up into the aspect of Josh Berry as he quickly approached from the skin lane in Flip 2. The contact despatched her spinning sideways down the backstretch in the identical bother spot as earlier. She locked it down, however unfortunatelyDaniel Suarez had nowhere to go however the aspect of the No. 78 Chevrolet, closely damaging his automotive personal whereas Legge suffered a damaged left-rear toe-link.

 

Suarez managed to limp his technique to a twenty third place end, whereas Legge went to the storage for extra intensive repairs. The staff was unable to repair the automotive and her race got here to a untimely finish after 210 of 312 laps.

Talking to FOX Sports activities’ Bob Pockrass after leaving the infield care middle, she referred to as the race “baptism of fireplace” and expressed a need to run future Cup races. She defined how the staff made adjustments in a single day to the automotive that have been the flawed course, however they slowly received it nearer to the place it wanted to be all through the race.

Legge ended up ending thirtieth within the high-attrition race, putting forward of the seven drivers who have been all eradicated in a separate mid-race pileup. She is formally the  seventeenth lady in NASCAR historical past to compete in a Cup Sequence race.

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