37-Car Phoenix Entry List Highlighted by Legge's Cup Debut

Katherine Legge will make her debut in this weekend's NASCAR Cup Series Shriners Children's 500 at Phoenix Raceway. | David TuckerNews-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

NASCAR released the preliminary entry list for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Shriners Children's 500 at Phoenix Raceway on Monday. The list features 37 cars, which will compete in the fourth race of the season.

This marks the first time since the 2021 season that more than the 36 Chartered entries have been entered in each of the first four races to start a NASCAR Cup Series season.

All of the expected full-time competitors vying for the NASCAR Cup Series championship, including last week's race-winner Christopher Bell, who has won each of the last two events, is represented on the entry list.

The most notable entry on the list is the No. 78 Live Fast Motorsports Chevrolet. The team, owned by BJ McLeod, will have Katherine Legge behind the wheel as the native of England makes her NASCAR Cup Series debut. Legge will be the first female competitor in a NASCAR Cup Series event since Danica Patrick competed in the 2018 Daytona 500 for Premium Motorsports.

NASCAR Cup Series Shriners Children's 500 Entry List

Entry	Car	Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	1	Ross Chastain	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet
2	2	Austin Cindric	Team Penske	Ford
3	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
4	4	Noah Gragson	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
5	5	Kyle Larson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
6	6	Brad Keselowski	RFK Racing	Ford
7	7	Justin Haley	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
8	8	Kyle Busch	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
9	9	Chase Elliott	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
10	10	Ty Dillon	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet
11	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
12	12	Ryan Blaney	Team Penske	Ford
13	16	AJ Allmendinger	Kaulig Racing	Chevrolet
14	17	Chris Buescher	RFK Racing	Ford
15	19	Chase Briscoe	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
16	20	Christopher Bell	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
17	21	Josh Berry	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford
18	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford
19	23	Bubba Wallace	23XI Racing	Toyota
20	24	William Byron	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
21	34	Todd Gilliland	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
22	35	Riley Herbst #	23XI Racing	Toyota
23	38	Zane Smith	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
24	41	Cole Custer	Haas Factory Team	Ford
25	42	John Hunter Nemechek	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	Toyota
26	43	Erik Jones	LEGACY MOTOR CLUB	Toyota
27	45	Tyler Reddick	23XI Racing	Toyota
28	47	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	HYAK Motorsports	Chevrolet
29	48	Alex Bowman	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
30	51	Cody Ware	Rick Ware Racing	Rick Ware Racing
31	54	Ty Gibbs	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
32	60	Ryan Preece	RFK Racing	Ford
33	71	Michael McDowell	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
34	77	Carson Hocevar	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet
35	78	Katherine Legge *	Live Fast Motorsports	Chevrolet
36	88	Shane van Gisbergen #	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet
37	99	Daniel Suarez	Trackhouse Racing	Chevrolet

# indicates Rookie of the Year contender
* indicates "Open" entry
(i) indicates driver ineligible to score NASCAR Cup Series Points