Live Fast Motorsports announced Monday that Katherine Legge will make her NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend at Phoenix Raceway.
Legge will drive the No. 78 Chevrolet for the BJ and Jessica McLeod-owned team in Sunday’s Shriners Children’s 500 (3:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at the 1-mile track. Sponsorship will be provided by investment strategy firm Droplight.
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Legge will be the first woman to enter a Cup Series event since Danica Patrick made her final start in the 2018 Daytona 500.
Legge has made five NASCAR Xfinity Series starts, the most recent in 2023 at Road America. The 44-year-old veteran also competed in this season’s opening race for the ARCA Menards Series at Daytona International Speedway, where an early crash brought a premature end to her day.
Sunday’s effort at Phoenix marks an expansion of Live Fast’s 2025 schedule. The team had previously announced a partial Cup Series slate consisting of seven races — all six events on drafting-style tracks, plus the Coca-Cola 600 in May. McLeod failed to qualify for this year’s Daytona 500, then placed 22nd at Atlanta Motor Speedway the following weekend.
Legge competed in a partial schedule of IndyCar and IMSA events last season. She also branched into dirt-track racing this year with an entry in the Chili Bowl Nationals.