Scheduled to become the first woman in a NASCAR Cup Series race since Danica Patrick made her final start in the Daytona 500 seven years ago, Legge will drive the No. 78 Chevrolet for Live Fast

With her Cup debut Sunday at Phoenix Raceway, Katherine Legge would become the 17th woman to race in NASCAR’s premier series (see list below). The eighth female driver in Cup during NASCAR’s modern era (which began in 1972),

PHOENIX- March is Women’s History Month, and the first woman to participate in the NASCAR Cup Series in seven years will be there. Katherine Legge will make her debut in the Shriners Children’s 500 race on Sunday.