Katherine Legge became the first woman to race in the NASCAR Cup Series race since 2018 on Sunday at Phoenix Raceway.

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),

Katherine Legge isn’t here for tokenism. As the first woman to race NASCAR’s Next Gen car in Sunday’s Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway, the British driver didn’t hold back when addressing the sport’s gender gap.