Katherine Legge secures last-minute deal to attemp...

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Within the late-night hours following the opening Indy 500 practice session, experiences emerged that Katherine Legge will try the uncommon Indy 500/Coke 600 Double — this yr. Motorsport.com has since independently confirmed the information as effectively.

The 45-year-old is already confirmed to be collaborating within the one hundred and tenth operating of the Indianapolis 500, driving the No. 11 HMD Motorsports/AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet for her fifth look within the historic occasion.

Nonetheless, we now know that she additionally plans to participate within the 67th operating of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the identical day — Sunday, Might 24. If profitable (and weather-permitting), Legge would be the sixth driver in historical past to participate in each races on the identical day. Together with being the primary girl and first non-American driver to try the Double, Legge can even be the oldest.

“Only a few drivers ever get the chance to try ‘The Double,’ and I don’t take that chance evenly,” mentioned Legge in a press launch. “This problem is about pushing by perceived limits, betting on your self, taking dangers and attempting to do one thing distinctive. I’m so extremely grateful to e.l.f. Cosmetics for believing in what this second represents and for constructing a group round it.”

Legge made her eighth profession Cup Sequence begin this previous weekend at Watkins Glen, and she is going to once more drive the No. 78 Stay Quick Motorsports Chevrolet at Charlotte Motor Speedway subsequent weekend.

e.l.f. Cosmetics will fund the trouble, together with already supporting her within the Indy 500 this yr.

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Katherine Legge, HMD Motorsports with AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet

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Two-time NASCAR Cup Sequence champion Kyle Larson is the latest driver to try to finish the 1,100-mile Double between IndyCar’s greatest race and NASCAR’s longest. Along with Larson, Robby Gordon, John Andretti, Kurt Busch, and Tony Stewart have additionally completed it. Stewart is the one driver to truly full each lap, doing so in 2001.

Davy Jones additionally tried the Double in 1995, however he didn’t qualify for the 600.

Forward of final weekend’s Cup race at Watkins Glen, Legge expressed interest in attempting the Double, but stated that it would depend on sponsorship and support from e.l.f. Cosmetics. It seems that a deal has come collectively far before anybody anticipated, with this Double try coming collectively inside two weeks of race day.

Legge’s greatest exhibiting within the Indy 500 got here in 2012, ending twenty second. Though she solely made her Cup debut simply over a yr in the past, she has accomplished a number of oval races in America’s prime inventory automotive racing division. Her greatest consequence got here within the 2025 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, ending seventeenth in one of the best non-drafting consequence ever for Stay Quick Motorsports. This might be Legge’s debut within the Coca-Cola 600, however she ran the NASCAR O’Reilly race on the observe final Might.

Whereas she is locked into the Indy 500 with no bumping this yr, we should await the official variety of Coke 600 entries to be launched subsequent Monday to know if she should qualify her manner into the NASCAR race.