NASCAR Xfinity Series: Katherine Legge to make debut at Mid-Ohio
By Asher Fair
Katherine Legge is set to make her NASCAR Xfinity Series debut in this weekend’s Rock N Roll Tequila 170 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship driver Katherine Legge is set to make her NASCAR Xfinity Series debut in this Saturday’s race, the Rock N Roll Tequila 170, at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Legge is set to drive the #15 JD Motorsports Chevrolet in Saturday’s 75-lap race at the 13-turn, 2.258-mile (3.634-kilometer) Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.
In addition to making her first career Xfinity Series start, which is her first career start in any NASCAR series, this weekend, the 38-year-old Briton is also set to drive in the Xfinity Series race at Road America in just over two weeks.
That race, the Johnsonville 180, is scheduled to be a 45-lap race around the 14-turn, 4.048-mile (6.515-kilometer) Road America road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. It is scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 25.
Here is what Legge had to say about getting to drive in the Xfinity Series, according to Yahoo Sports.
"“Making my Xfinity Series debut will be a huge challenge. These cars are very different from what I’m used to driving in open-wheel and sports car racing, but I’ve built my career on diversity and going where opportunities take me. I hope to learn as much as I can at Mid-Ohio, and then apply that knowledge a couple of weeks later at Road America.”"
Legge’s racing career includes stints in the Atlantic Championship, where she won three races in her lone season, the 12-race 2005 season, en route to a third place finish in the championship standings, as well as Champ Car, Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters and IndyCar.
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Legge drove full-time in Champ Car in the 2006 and 2007 seasons, full-time in Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters from the 2008 season through the 2010 season and full-time in IndyCar in the 2012 season. She drove in the Indianapolis 500 in 2012 and 2013, and she competed in the first two Formula E races of the sport’s existence in the 2014-2015 season.
Since 2014, Legge has competed full-time in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, where she has recorded three victories, all since last year. From the 2014 season through the 2016 season, she competed in the P class. She recorded a career-high finish of eighth place in the championship standings in the 2015 season.
Last season, Legge began competing in the GTD class and won two races in the 12-race season en route to a sixth place finish in the championship standings. Through four races so far this season, she has earned one victory and three podium finishes, and she sits in second in the standings.
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Be sure to tune in to NBC Sports Network this Saturday, August 11 at 3:00 p.m. ET for the live broadcast of the Rock N Roll Tequila 170 to watch Katherine Legge make her NASCAR Xfinity Series debut, and be sure to tune in to NBC Sports Network on Saturday, August 25 at 3:00 p.m. ET for the live broadcast of the Johnsonville 180 to watch her make her return to the series.