April 27, 2026, 8:01 a.m. ET
- Katherine Legge is about to return to the Indianapolis 500 for the fifth time, driving the No. 11 Chevrolet.
- The entry is a collaboration between HMD Motorsports and AJ Foyt Racing.
- Her addition brings the occasion to a full subject of 33 drivers.
Katherine Legge is about to return to the Indianapolis 500 for the fifth time. HMD Motorsports and AJ Foyt Racing have filed an entry for Legge to return driving the No. 11 Chevrolet, the groups introduced Monday.
Legge is about to make her first look within the race since 2024, when she completed twenty ninth for Dale Coyne Racing. Her highest end got here in her first Indy 500, when she was twenty second with Dragon Racing in 2012. Legge would be the solely girl on this 12 months’s subject. Her major sponsor might be e.l.f. Cosmetics, which was her major sponsor in 2024.
“We worked incredibly hard to be back at this year’s Indianapolis 500, and I don’t take a single moment of it for granted,” Legge stated in a information launch. “I’m beyond grateful to e.l.f. Cosmetics for believing that women deserve to take up space in every arena — including this one. Together, we’re proving that when you invest in a woman’s dream, there’s no limit to what she can achieve.
“It actually appears like Christmas being again on the 500. Every time I return, I acquire a deeper appreciation for what it takes — not simply to compete right here, however to earn the chance to be right here within the first place. I’m reminded that I’m a small a part of this enormously storied occasion. To the AJ Foyt Racing group, HMD, Chevrolet, IndyAutomotive, and my group at BRANDed Management — thanks for preventing tirelessly to make this potential.”
Beginning her North American career in 2005, Legge has experience racing in IndyCar, NASCAR, IMSA and WEC. The British driver most recently competed part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series last year, where her best finish in seven races was 17th at the Brickyard 400 at IMS.
This is the third Indy 500 for HMD Motorsports, which competes with four full-time drivers in Indy NXT. In 2022 and 2023, HMD Motorsports had a partnership with Dale Coyne Racing for David Malukas, current Team Penske driver and son of HMD Motorsports owner Henry Malukas, to race full-time. Malukas finished 16th and 29th in his two Indy 500s with HMD and Dale Coyne Racing.
“This is an amazing alternative for HMD Motorsports and an extremely proud second for everybody concerned with our group,” HMD Motorsports president Mike Maurini said. “We have labored laborious to ascertain HMD as a frontrunner in driver growth, and to now be a part of an Indianapolis 500 program alongside AJ Foyt Racing and Katherine Legge is one thing very particular. Katherine brings a wealth of expertise, AJ Foyt Racing brings unmatched historical past, and collectively we imagine we now have assembled a program that may make a robust impression all through the Month of May.”
Legge’s addition to the race gets it to a full field of 33 drivers. The 45-year-old joins the crop of 500-only drivers with Jacob Abel (Abel Motorsports), Ryan Hunter-Reay (Arrow McLaren), Conor Daly (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing), Jack Harvey (Dreyer & Reinbold Racing), Ed Carpenter (Ed Carpenter Racing), Helio Castroneves (Meyer Shank Racing) and Takuma Sato (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing).
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