{"id":308105,"date":"2025-10-16T13:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308105\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:09:14","slug":"nascar-cup-driver-out-for-the-season-after-31st-place-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308105\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Cup driver out for the season after 31st place finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"88\">Katherine Legge&#8217;s first partial NASCAR Cup Series season has <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtheflag.com\/katherine-legge-made-quiet-schedule-change-no-one-talking-01k3srqn5v6v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">come to a close<\/a> following her 31st place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday, as she is not scheduled to compete in any of the season&#8217;s final three races at Talladega Superspeedway, Martinsville Speedway, or Phoenix Raceway.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8b\">Legge has come a long way in year number one driving the No. 78 Chevrolet for Live Fast Motorsports, as her series debut at Phoenix in March was <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtheflag.com\/terrible-nascar-decision-resurfaces-amid-phoenix-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the more maligned Cup debuts in recent memory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8e\">But she went on to qualify for the race at the Chicago Street Course after she was a popular pick to become the first non-Daytona 500 DNQ since 2018, and by finishing 19th, she delivered the B.J. McLeod-owned team their <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtheflag.com\/nascar-fans-got-hit-inconvenient-truth-about-katherine-legge-01jzmdhe44hv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best ever road or street course race finish<\/a> in their five-year history.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8h\">She added a 17th place finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondtheflag.com\/nascar-hot-water-another-odd-katherine-legge-decision-01k08akwqh76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after starting from the back<\/a>, good for the team&#8217;s best ever finish in a non-drafting oval race. She finished all six races she started after her eventful Phoenix debut.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Legge&#8217;s first season wraps up at Las Vegas<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8n\">This weekend at Talladega is the last race on the 2025 schedule in which the No. 78 Chevrolet is currently entered, and it&#8217;s McLeod, not Legge, who is set to drive it. Legge, whose Las Vegas start was her first at the Cup level on a 1.5-mile oval, has yet to make a Cup Series start on a superspeedway, and that won&#8217;t change this year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8q\">Since failing to qualify for the Daytona 500, McLeod has competed in each Cup Series superspeedway race, and his 16th place finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway was the team&#8217;s third-best finish ever. He was knocked out of the April race at Talladega but placed 22nd there in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8t\">Live Fast Motorsports do not plan to compete in either one of the season&#8217;s final two races at Martinsville Speedway or Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"8z\">NBC&#8217;s live coverage of the YellaWood 500 from Talladega Superspeedway is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. ET this Sunday, October 19. <strong>Start a <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/welcome?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1412332&amp;subId1=FS-2024streaming\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>free trial of FuboTV<\/strong><\/a><strong> and catch all of the action!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katherine Legge&#8217;s first partial NASCAR Cup Series season has come to a close following her 31st place finish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":308106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-308105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115384009603208474","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}