Katherine Legge
Katherine Legge is a British professional auto racing driver, competing in the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy. She is also featured in Richard Hammond's Crash Course.
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.Legge's move to the United States came about in 2004, when after running out of finances to continue her racing career, she visited the UK offices of Cosworth, refusing to leave until she had met Cosworth boss Kevin Kalkhoven. Kalkhoven sent his daughter to speak to Legge to get her to leave: after a brief conversation with Legge, she instead told Kalkhoven that he should meet with her. Kalkhoven then offered her a drive in the first three rounds of the 2005 Toyota Atlantic Championship with Polestar Motor Racing: this was her first full-time drive. 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 take her second and third wins 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.
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 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.
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 recipients include Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Cristiano da Matta, Alex Barron, Giancarlo Fisichella, Greg Moore, and Gil de Ferran.
Champ Car
In the 2005–2006 off-season, Legge tested a Champ Car once for 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. Working with the support of the FIA's Women in Motorsport Commission, the all-female team set out to promote technology and engineering as a career for young women.
Legge joined Michael Shank Racing in 2017 to drive an Acura NSX GT3 at the IMSA SportsCar Championship. In the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona Legge raced as part of an all-female team alongside Simona de Silvestro, Christina Nielsen and Ana Beatriz, having placed second in class the previous year. She was placed 15th in their class after Legge brushed a wall and damaged the car's suspension.
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 two races before being dropped for Salvador Durán.NASCAR
In August 2018, Legge joined JD Motorsports for her NASCAR Xfinity Series debut at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, driving the No. 15 Chevrolet Camaro. As part of a two-race schedule with the team, she also competed at Road America. Legge later made her oval debut at Richmond Raceway.Personal life
Legge is a member of the Women in Motorsport Commission of the FiA.Motorsports career results
Complete American open-wheel racing results
Atlantic Championship
| Years | Teams | Races | Poles | Wins | Podiums
| Top 10s | Championships |
| 1 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Champ Car
| Years | Teams | Races | Poles | Wins | Podiums
| Top 10s | Championships |
| 2 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
IndyCar Series
| Years | Teams | Races | Poles | Wins | Podiums
| Top 10s | Championships |
| 2 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Indianapolis 500
Complete A1 Grand Prix results
| 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 PO | UAE FEA PO | 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
| Year | Team | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Rank | Points |
| 2008 | Futurecom TME | Audi A4 DTM 2006 | HOC 18 | OSC 17 | MUG 18 | LAU 15 | NOR 15 | ZAN 16† | NÜR Ret | BRH 19 | CAT Ret | LMS 16 | HOC NC | 19th | 0 |
| 2009 | Abt Lady Power | Audi A4 DTM 2008 | HOC 12 | LAU Ret | NOR 12 | ZAN Ret | OSC 17† | NÜR Ret | BRH 15 | CAT Ret | DIJ 16 | HOC 17† | 18th | 0 | |
| 2010 | Team Rosberg | Audi A4 DTM 2008 | HOC 14 | VAL DNS | LAU 14 | NOR 16 | NÜR 15 | ZAN 14 | BRH 14 | OSC Ret | HOC Ret | ADR 15 | SHA 14 | 18th | 0 |
- † — Retired, but was classified as she completed 90% of the winner's race distance.
Complete Formula E results
| Year | Team | Chassis | Powertrain | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Pos | Points |
| 2014–15 | Amlin Aguri | Spark SRT01-e | SRT01-e | BEI 15 | PUT 15 | PDE | BUE | MIA | LBH | MCO | BER | MSC | LON | LON | 34th | 0 |
Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results
| Year | Entrant | Class | Make | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Rank | Points |
| 2014 | DeltaWing Racing Cars | P | DeltaWing DWC13 | Élan 1.9 L I4 Turbo | DAY 16 | SEB 15 | LBH | LGA 9 | DET | WGL 12 | MOS DNS | IMS | ELK 6 | COA | PET 4 | 19th | 131 | |
| 2015 | DeltaWing Racing Cars w/ Claro/TracFone | P | DeltaWing DWC13 | Élan 1.9 L I4 Turbo | DAY 15 | SEB 12 | LBH 9 | LGA 8 | DET | WGL 8 | MOS 8 | ELK 6 | COA 7 | PET 8 | 8th | 207 | ||
| 2016 | Panoz DeltaWing Racing | P | DeltaWing DWC13 | Élan 1.9 L I4 Turbo | DAY 12 | SEB 9 | LBH 8 | LGA 5 | WGL 7 | MOS 7 | ELK 7 | COA 5 | PET 8 | 10th | 247 | |||
| 2016 | Michael Shank Racing w/ Curb Agajanian | P | Ligier JS P2 | Honda HR28TT 2.8 L V6 Turbo | DET 5 | 10th | 247 | |||||||||||
| 2017 | Michael Shank Racing | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 | DAY 11 | SEB 14 | LBH 7 | COA 15 | DET 1 | WGL 1 | MOS 2 | LIM 5 | ELK 15 | VIR 15 | LGA 2 | PET 14 | 6th | 286 |
| 2018 | Michael Shank Racing w/ Curb-Agajanian | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 | DAY 2 | SEB 8 | MDO 2 | DET 1 | WGL 2 | MOS 5 | LIM 4 | ELK 7 | VIR 3 | LGA 1 | PET 2 | 2nd | 329 | |
| 2019 | Heinricher Racing w/ Meyer Shank Racing | GTD | Acura NSX GT3 | Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6 | DAY 12 | SEB 8 | MDO 10 | DET 9 | WGL 4 | MOS 6 | LIM 12 | ELK 13 | VIR 12 | LGA 6 | PET 7 | 9th | 221 | |
| 2020 | GEAR Racing powered by GRT Grasser | GTD | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 | DAY 16 | DAY | SEB | ELK | VIR | WGL | LIM | MDO | PET | LGA | SEB | 30th* | 15* |
* Season still in progress.
24 Hours of Daytona results
NASCAR
Xfinity Series
Season still in progressIneligible for series points