Katherine Legge

Katherine Legge

Born: July 12, 1980
Age: 44
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Katherine Legge (/ˈlɛɡ/ LEG; born 12 July 1980) is a British auto racing driver. She is also featured in Richard Hammond's Crash Course.

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Racing career

Early racing and Atlantics

Prior to joining the Toyota Atlantic series, Guildford-born Legge raced in several developmental open-wheel series in Britain, including Formula Three, Formula Renault and Formula Ford. In 2000 she was the first woman to achieve a pole in a Zetec race. In 2001 she beat Kimi Räikkönen's lap record and achieved a pole, and she was the first woman to receive the BRDC's "Rising Star" accolade. She received the 2005 RACER Magazine "Most Promising Road Racer of The Year" award, a title that had been awarded every year since 2002 to A. J. Allmendinger. Other drivers that have won the award include Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Cristiano da Matta, Alex Barron, Giancarlo Fisichella, Greg Moore, and Gil de Ferran.

In November 2005, Legge became the first woman to test a Formula One car since Sarah Fisher in 2002, when she tested on the second and third days (22 and 23 November) of the Minardi team's final testing session at Vallelunga. After she crashed after 2 laps on her first run on the track, it was decided to postpone the test until the following day, on which she completed 27 laps with a best lap time of 1:21.176. She was also the first woman to test an A1 Grand Prix car, on 9-11 December 2005 with A1 Team Great Britain.

In 2005, Legge competed in the Toyota Atlantic Championship with Polestar Motor Racing. She won the series opener at Long Beach in her first career Atlantic start. In doing so, she became the first woman to win a developmental open-wheel race in North America. Legge went on to win her second and third races of the season at Edmonton and San Jose. She finished the season 3rd in the championship with three wins and five podiums. She also received the Toyota Atlantic BBS Rising Star 2005 Award.

Champ Car

In the 2005-2006 off-season, Legge tested a Champ Car once for the Rocketsports Racing and twice for PKV Racing. In February 2006, it was announced that she would drive for PKV Racing in the 2006 Champ Car season. In June, she became the first woman to lead a lap in series history, leading 12 laps at Milwaukee. Legge suffered a violent accident at the 2006 Grand Prix of Road America when the rear wing of her car broke; she was able to walk away from the car unharmed.

Legge drove for Dale Coyne Racing in 2007, and her best result in the series was sixth place, twice.

DTM

In 2008, Legge moved to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series, driving for Colin Kolles' Futurecom TME Audi team. For 2009 and 2010 she raced for the Abt Sportsline team, who were the 2008 champions. For 2009 she was the only one of the 5 drivers in the Abt Sportline team using the previous year's car.

Return to the US

In January 2012, Legge signed with Dragon Racing in the IndyCar Series, alongside Frenchman Sébastien Bourdais. Legge reached a two-year agreement with sponsor TrueCar as part of their Women Empowered campaign. However, since the Lotus engines were shown to be uncompetitive, the team made a change to Chevrolet engines. But team owner Jay Penske could only procure one Chevrolet engine lease agreement for the team, so they could only enter one car per race after Indianapolis. Therefore, for the remainder of 2012, Dragon entered Bourdais at the road and street courses, and Legge at oval tracks, except for Sonoma Raceway where both drivers were able to compete. Legge finished 26th in points, competing in ten of the 15 races, and had a best finish of ninth in the 2012 MAVTV 500 IndyCar World Championships at Auto Club Speedway.

In 2013, Legge left IndyCar to join the DeltaWing program in the United SportsCar Championship. Legge competed in the 2014 and 2015 seasons for DeltaWing.

In May 2015, Legge announced her involvement with the Grace Autosport project to enter the 2016 Indianapolis 500 race. The team will be all-female and intends to help promote technology and engineering as a career path for young women. The team has confirmed it has the support of the FIA's Women in Motorsport Commission.

Formula E

Legge signed for the Amlin Aguri team to compete in the inaugural season of the Formula E electric open-wheel series. She raced in the first 2 rounds before being dropped in favour of Salvador Durán.

Personal

Legge is a member of the Women in Motorsport Commission of the FiA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile).

Motorsports career results

Complete American open-wheel racing results

(key)

Atlantic Championship

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Rank Points
2005 Polestar Racing Group LBH
MTY
POR1
POR2
CLE1
CLE2
TOR
EDM
SJO
DEN
ROA
MTL
3rd 267
Years Teams Races Poles Wins Podiums
(Non-win)**
Top 10s
(Non-podium)***
Championships
1 1 12 0 3 2 5 0
** Podium (Non-win) indicates 2nd or 3rd place finishes.
*** Top 10s (Non-podium) indicates 4th through 10th place finishes.

Champ Car

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Rank Points
2006 PKV Racing Lola B02/00 Ford XFE LBH
HOU
MTY
MIL
POR
CLE
TOR
EDM
SJO
DEN
MTL
ROA
SRF
MXC
16th 133
2007 Dale Coyne Racing Panoz DP01 Cosworth XFE LVG
LBH
HOU
POR
CLE
MTT
TOR
EDM
SJO
ROA
ZOL
ASN
SRF
MXC
15th 108
Years Teams Races Poles Wins Podiums
(Non-win)**
Top 10s
(Non-podium)***
Championships
2 2 28 0 0 0 6 0
** Podium (Non-win) indicates 2nd or 3rd place finishes.
*** Top 10s (Non-podium) indicates 4th through 10th place finishes.

IndyCar Series

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Rank Points
2012 Lotus-Dragon Racing Dallara DW12 Lotus STP
ALA
LBH
SAO
26th 137
Dragon Racing Chevrolet INDY
DET TXS
MIL
IOW
TOR EDM MDO SNM
BAL FON
2013 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda STP ALA LBH SAO INDY
DET DET TXS MIL IOW POC TOR TOR MDO SNM BAL HOU HOU FON 37th 8
Years Teams Races Poles Wins Podiums
(Non-win)**
Top 10s
(Non-podium)***
Championships
2 2 11 0 0 0 1 0
** Podium (Non-win) indicates 2nd or 3rd place finishes.
*** Top 10s (Non-podium) indicates 4th through 10th place finishes.

Indianapolis 500

Year Chassis Engine Start Finish Team
2012 Dallara Chevrolet 30 22 Dragon Racing
2013 Dallara Honda 33 26 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

(key)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points
2005-06 Great Britain GBR
SPR
GBR
FEA
GER
SPR
GER
FEA
POR
SPR
POR
FEA
AUS
SPR
AUS
FEA
MYS
SPR
MYS
FEA
UAE
SPR
UAE
FEA
RSA
SPR
RSA
FEA
IDN
SPR
IDN
FEA
MEX
SPR
MEX
FEA
USA
SPR
USA
FEA
CHN
SPR
CHN
FEA
3rd 97

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

(key) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Rank Points
2008 Futurecom TME Audi A4 DTM 2006 HOC
OSC
MUG
LAU
NOR
ZAN
NÜR
BRH
CAT
LMS
HOC
19th 0
2009 Abt Lady Power Audi A4 DTM 2008 HOC
LAU
NOR
ZAN
OSC
NÜR
BRH
CAT
DIJ
HOC
18th 0
2010 Team Rosberg Audi A4 DTM 2008 HOC
VAL
LAU
NOR
NÜR
ZAN
BRH
OSC
HOC
ADR
SHA
18th 0
  • † — Retired, but was classified as she completed 90% of the winner's race distance.

Complete Formula E results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pos Points
2014-15 Amlin Aguri Spark-Renault SRT 01E BEI
PUT
PDE BNA MIA LBH MON BER MOS LON LON 34th 0

United SportsCar Championship

(key)

24 Hours of Daytona

24 Hours of Daytona results
Year Class No Team Car Co-drivers Laps Position Class Pos.
2014 P 0 DeltaWing Racing Cars DeltaWing DWC13 Gabby Chaves
Alexander Rossi
Andy Meyrick
288 61 17
2015 P 0 Claro/TracFone DeltaWing Racing DeltaWing DWC13 Gabby Chaves
Memo Rojas
Andy Meyrick
42 53 16
2016 P 0 Panoz DeltaWing Racing DeltaWing DWC13 Sean Rayhall
Andy Meyrick
Andreas Wirth
119 53 12

[ Source: Wikipedia ]


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