Katherine Legge credits IndyCar fame Conor Daly's advice while detailing "best qualifying" in Xfinity Series

Katherine Legge touched upon her recent qualifying efforts at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Speaking about how her qualifying in the Xfinity Series went, Legge credited the renowned NTT IndyCar Series driver Conor Daly for his valuable input.

Legge had one of her finest Xfinity Series qualifying runs on Saturday, as the 45-year-old driver from Surrey, England, qualified in 24th place and was 1.01 seconds off the pole sitter, Sam Mayer. Her best time was 55.03, and the top speed was 163.56.

She qualified behind her teammate, Jeb Burton, and ahead of Matt Dibenedetto. Speaking about her qualifying efforts, she shared her thoughts in the recent Throttle Therapy by iHeart podcast. Here's what she said:

"I was actually texting with Conor Daly and he said it's flat out, and after practice there was no way. I was like, 'is he having me on, like is this for real?' Like there's no way it's flat. He said, 'yeah, honestly, like it's faster than you think it is'. And I am so grateful that he told me that, and I'm so grateful for him giving me that info because in practice on older tires, when I was kind of getting up to speed, you're nowhere near flat." (4:43 onwards)

"So I went out, 'okay, Conor, I got this', and my foot quivered in turn three. And we do an alternate start finish line between ten three and four, so we go out of the pits straight onto the track and we literally start our lap after ten three, so we do I don't know, like two thirds of the track. And so I got on it...we were a second off the pace, but we're still P24 behind my teammate Jeb Burton, and so I felt like that was probably the best qualifying we've had in Cup or Xfinity to date this year" she further added.

Katherine Legge started her race from 24th place, but moved down to 28th place by the end of Stage 1. She failed to improve by the end of Stage 2 and came home in 29th place. However, Legge suffered a DNF in the final stage as her race came to an end on Lap 74 of 100.

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How was Katherine Legge's Cup Series outing at Indianapolis?

Katherine Legge tried a double — the Cup and the Xfinity Series race at the renowned IndyCar track, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After her Xfinity race, she ran in the Cup Series with Live Fast Motorsports.

NASCAR Cup Series driver Katherine Legge - Source: Imagn

The #78 driver qualified in 38th place, ahead of Denny Hamlin (who crashed in qualifying), and behind Josh Bilicki. Legge's fastest lap time was 56.96, and she was 7.83 seconds slower than pole sitter Chase Briscoe, and her top speed was 158.00.

In the race, the 45-year-old came home in 17th place, one of her best results in the Cup Series. She improved to 30th in Stage 1 and 23rd in Stage 2, before improving further in the final stage.