Katherine Legge made her NASCAR Cup Sequence debut on Sunday, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. revealed why she struggled. On Dale Jr. Obtain, Earnhardt shared his ideas on Legge competing on the Cup Sequence race at Phoenix.
“It doesn’t assist that she’s in such poor automobile,” Earnhardt mentioned. “It’s a poor automobile. She’s in a automobile that doesn’t do a whole lot of issues proper, and we don’t have any observe. The dearth of observe and the issues that creates is obtrusive, and it’s in our face each different week. However we type of select to disregard it as a result of there’s a whole lot of drivers, particularly guys which can be within the prime third of the sector, that don’t want observe. They’d fairly not have observe.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr. shares extra on Katherine Legge
Earnhardt later mentioned, “I feel if she had just a little bit extra time within the automobile,” it might have helped Legge within the Phoenix race. That’s the reason he thinks observe is essential for drivers like Legge, who’ve little to no expertise within the Cup Sequence.
Katherine Legge has a whole lot of expertise racing, however for the Cup Sequence race this previous weekend, Earnhardt mentioned, “She’s in a nasty automobile that doesn’t do something proper. She doesn’t know what it must do.” The 2-time Daytona 500 winner later questioned NASCAR’s approval course of, saying, “I don’t know what NASCAR’s approval course of is. I don’t know if we’d like this actually mounted, inflexible construction of, ‘Effectively it’s essential win this, this and this or drive this, this, this to get there.’ I don’t know if we have to go that route.”
Legge turned the primary feminine driver since Danica Patrick in 2018 to compete in a NASCAR Cup Sequence race. Within the race, Legge spun out twice and completed thirtieth.
After the race, Legge talked in regards to the challenges she confronted. “It was a very tough begin,” Legge mentioned, through Bob Pockrass of FOX Sports activities. “We made some modifications to the automobile in a single day, they usually had been terrible. I used to be hanging on like the primary stint, I used to be so unfastened and I used to be simply hanging on to it. Then we saved making changes, and we saved making the automobile far more steady for me. Then on the finish there, I feel we had been comparatively fast in comparison with the sector. So, it wasn’t dangerous. I want we hadn’t made the modifications, however you understand, we’re looking for some tempo, and we’ve discovered it all through the race, but it surely was a tough begin.”
