When Katherine Legge saw the first render for her pink race car, covered in e.l.f. branding, her reaction was swift. “Oh god, that’s so cliché. Do we have to do a pink car?” she recalls asking her team.
The veteran driver, whose expansive resume includes open-wheel racing, endurance and now NASCAR, had spent most of her career carefully sidestepping the ‘female driver’ label. In a sport dominated by men, Legge was intentional about building her reputation on grit and performance, not her gender.
