Nascar Driver Katherine Legge Slams 'dei Hire' Slights After Xfinity Series Crash

Professional driver Katherine Legge has done a batch to make her people connected nan athletics of car racing.

She holds nan grounds for nan fastest qualifying clip for a female successful nan Indianapolis 500. She was nan first female to triumph an open-wheel title successful North America. She was besides nan first female to beryllium inducted into nan Long Beach Motorsports Walk of Fame.

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Katherine Legge signs autographs earlier nan commencement of a NASCAR Cup Series astatine Phoenix Raceway, March 9, 2025, successful Avondale, Arizona. (AP Photo/Darryl Webb, File)

But nan British driver revealed successful a podcast section that she’s received "death threats" from fans aft she was progressive successful a clang during nan NASCAR Xfinity Series title astatine Rockingham past weekend. The incident besides progressive seasoned driver Kasey Kahne.

"Let maine beryllium very clear, I’m present to title and I'm present to compete, and I won't tolerate immoderate of these threats to my information aliases to my dignity, whether that's connected way aliases disconnected of it," Legge said during nan "Throttle Therapy" episode.

She added that "the inappropriate societal media comments I've received aren't conscionable disturbing, they are unacceptable."

Legge became nan first female successful 7 years to commencement successful a NASCAR Cup Series title erstwhile she made nan section successful Phoenix. The Xfinity Series title was her 2nd of nan season. She was thrust into J.J. Yeley’s car arsenic she was bumped disconnected nan starting grid because of ownership points.

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Legge moved disconnected nan gait successful nan title erstwhile William Sawalich sewage into nan backmost of her conveyance and sent her spinning. Kahne had obscurity to spell and ended up moving into her astatine nan bottommost of nan way successful Turn 1. Legge explained she was deed excessively hard, which caused her to rotation around.

As for nan societal media comments, Legge pushed backmost connected claims she was a "DEI hire" aliases thing little than conscionable a "gimmick" driver who didn’t really gain her spot.

Katherine Legge is simply a master driver from Britain. (AP)

"I person earned my spot connected that racetrack," Legge said. "I’ve worked conscionable arsenic difficult arsenic immoderate of nan different drivers retired there, and I’ve been racing professionally for nan past 20 years. I’m 100% judge that the... nan teams that employed maine – without maine bringing immoderate sponsorship money for nan mostly of those 20 years – did not do truthful arsenic a DEI hire, aliases a gimmick, aliases thing else. It’s because I tin thrust a title car."

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Legge vanished successful 36th astatine Rockingham. The champion decorativeness she had successful nan Xfinity Series was 14th astatine Road America successful Wisconsin successful 2018.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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