She’d be driving the No. Good drivers who get onboard with a good team and can win lots of races and win championships. European Le Mans / Breaking news. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. 6 TrueCar Dallara/Lotus/Firestone Indy car in the 2012 IZOD IndyCar Series championship, beginning at the Honda Grand Prix of St Petersburg. “I eat, drink, breathe, sleep, live -- everything -- racing.” Legge said, “I mean, I cannot imagine a world without racing in it, without me driving. But she never forgot the thrill of driving Indy cars and wanted, needed to come back. Her next race is in Detroit during the Grand Prix weekend, June 1-3. The email came through in January of last year from Katherine Legge, telling me she’d hooked up with this fabulous new sponsor, TrueCar, but I couldn’t say a word about it until, unless the team she was joining was named. I’ve driven whatever I got the opportunity to drive over the years. And I’ve been very fortunate to be part of some cool programs. “It was a very difficult season last year. I Must Be a Fast Car, Look! Email us with the subject line "Syndication" if you would like to see your own story syndicated here on Jalopnik. Autoweek may earn money from the links on this page. I think I got the driving from my mom and the competitive bit from my dad.”, One question that Legge gets a lot: What’s it like being a woman in racing? That was the springboard to more oval contests at Teas, Milwaukee and Iowa. I don’t have the perspective of being a guy in racing. I love the fact that you’re competing with yourself because you can always always always learn something and do better.”, Someday, Legge will hang up her helmet for good, but she hopes that will be a long way off. ), on to the Champ Car World Series, where she gained a bit of notoriety for her crash at Road America – and walking away from it to attend the evening’s Atlantic banquet – and had fair to middling success with a start-up team. And let me add that I’m not writing this because Katherine Legge is a woman driver; she’s a racer and there’s a big difference between them. (Oh, and I have no objections to Sebastian Saavedra – good kid, good driver and all… but not at the expense of someone else’s contract). 6 TrueCar. Europe came calling again and she raced in Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters and A1GP. Bad drivers who know how to work the cameras by being good looking and staritng in GoDaddy commercials (See: Danica Patrick). You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, Haywood to WeatherTech 240 Drivers: Be Patient, Bryan Sellers Is One to Watch at Sebring—Nov. Road Courses, Dirt Race Highlight Cup Schedule, Karting, Formula cars, DTM, Sports Cars, Prototypes -- and she’s not done, This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. So I kept my trap shut and waited until, finally, Katherine was confirmed by Dragon Racing, Jay Penske’s outfit. I get treated the same on track because most of the time they don’t know who’s in the car. 8 talking about this. The Inventory team is rounding up all of the best deals, Jay Penske got caught in Nantucket with his pants allegedly down. She then found more opportunities in the United States, racing in Toyota Atlantics, Champ Car and IndyCar. Katherine Legge did everything that was asked of her on the track and off the track at Indy. Legge wondered, in her statement, whether INDYCAR would take a stand on her behalf – I’m going to tell her right now, they won’t. Katherine Legge 1980-07-12 (age 40) Get Alerts. 14, Ford Performance charts course for rising NASCAR star Hailie Deegan, Super Sebring: WEC, IMSA Sebring weekend schedule gets makeover, 7 talking points from an already busy IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar series offseason, Bryan Herta Autosport sets sights on 24 Hours of Nurburgring, Juan Pablo Montoya says winning 24 Hours of Le Mans is out of his reach, Sebastien Bourdais to race full time in IMSA WeatherTech series in a Mustang Sampling Cadillac DPi, New management at Laguna Seca wants to give 'the wife' something to do during races, NASCAR, IMSA and American Flat Track enter the streaming wars with OTT service. She represented TrueCar admirably, as well as the Girl Scouts, and she performed admirably on-track, finishing 22nd. I mean, I know it’s different, obviously, but for the most part, like my teammates, other drivers, everybody treats me the same. We did very little testing and I was made to sit out some of the races. Look at Me! And when asked what kind of car she likes to drive the most, Legge’s response was both sage and media-savvy: “I think that you get the most pleasure out of getting the most out of the car and winning races.”. Historical records and family trees related to Katherine Legge. We didn’t see Katherine Legge for quite a while when she returned to the UK and the European theater of motorsports. A single path to follow in life, one that informs every decision she makes, and every word she says in her distinct English diction. I’ve had to fight for everything that I’ve got. We’d gotten tight when she came to the USA in 2004 to test an Indy Lights car for Kathryn Nunn, Morris Nunn’s wife who had a team the prior season. Instead, they decided to hire Colombian Sebastian Saavedra to partner Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais in the No. “It was a development process between Japan, Europe and here at HPD. After success in Formula Atlantic (first woman to win in that series), success in the DTM with Mercedes-Benz, Legge was returning to her first love of open wheel racing. Katherine Legge spent the long INDYCAR off-season working on behalf of TrueCar to “mitigate their costs and bring sponsors onboard with their [Women Empowered] Initiative, having invested a great deal of my own time, effort and money, so this has come as a huge shock.”. And I love it. Latest news on Katherine Legge. Built in 1927 and designed by R. Harold Zook, one of the most prolific residential architects in the western suburbs, the Lodge exudes grace and elegance. Katherine Legge is a race car driver to the marrow. I drove a Formula 1 car, I drove the DTM car, A1GP for Great Britain. She’s a race car driver -- and she cannot help it. Like every other successful racer, Katherine Legge has worked extremely hard for all of her opportunities in the business. The Lodge is a charming example of an era gone by. So that was cool.”, This eagerness to race, the bug, just where did it come from? She was then able to race on a road course in Sonoma, thanks to the proximity to TrueCar headquarters and finished the season at Fontana, scoring a ninth place result. UPDATE: Dragon Racing and True Car have issued the following statements: We are thankful for the contributions Katherine Legge has made during her time at Dragon Racing. For her sake, we hope the Acura NSX GT3 continues to deliver just that. European Le Mans / Breaking news. July official test. It was neat to drive it when it first came here and see how raw it was and take it to a place where we’re winning races with it last year. A lot of people do not know how to be around me because it’s like an anomaly, I guess, but I’m just another race car driver. That motivation is evident in Legge’s driving resume. Like many drivers, she started in karting and initially followed a relatively typical path of any Formula 1 hopeful, racing in Formula Renault and British Formula 3. This story originally appeared on anneotheropinion on February 13, 2013, and was republished with permission. After overcoming seemingly insurmountable issues with Lotus during the 2012 season, Dragon Racing has fielded two entries for the 2013 IndyCar season. Two Major Race Weekends for Belle Isle in '21, Sad to Say That the Rumor About the GT350 Is True, 1987 Sterling 825SI Is a Rare Junkyard Treasure. 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Nunn was hoping to have a woman driver for the next year and, together with Lyn St James invited six female racers to test her car at Texas Motor Speedway. Of course, that doesn’t include racing the Deltawing for Don Panoz and several drives in endurance racing. Katherine xoxo We wish Katherine the best in her future racing endeavors. I have done a lot of really cool stuff.”, Right now, the cool thing she’s in is an Acura NSX GT3 race car for Michael Shank Racing, where Legge finished second in class at Mid-Ohio -- and Legge helped develop this NSX race car. “I will continue to do so,” she stated, even as she confirmed that legal action is imminent concerning the breaking of her two-year contract with TrueCar and, ostensibly, Penske’s Dragon Racing team. At this point, Katherine seems to unfortunatly be that second type and is at risk of being passed over. She doesn’t. A nomad who doesn’t think twice about packing up and moving to a different state, or country, or continent, for a race seat. They didn’t. Legge sustains fractures in high-speed Paul Ricard crash . Katherine Legge. “I was very much looking onward to 2013, using the experience I gained last year as a spring board for greater success,” Legge said in her statement after Saavedra’s hiring was made public. And we haven’t stopped developing it, by the way. The thought terrifies me.”. We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Katherine, but after 12 months of collaboration, hard work, and TrueCar's sincere efforts to resurrect Katherine's open-wheel career, TrueCar has decided to pursue a different driver for 2013 IndyCar season.

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