Katherine Legge

Katherine Legge (July 12, 1980) is from Guildford, Surrey, UK. She will be driving in the Izod Indycar Series in 2012 for Dragon Racing.

Career
Legge was a very impressive up and comer in the Toyota Atlantic Championship in 2005 where she won at Long Beach, Edmonton, and San Jose. She went on to finish 3rd in the series standings. She moved up to the CART series the following year when she signed with PKV Racing.

In 2006 she became the first women to ever lead a lap in the CART series history. She was involved in a terrible accident at Road America that she was able to walk away from uninjured. The following season she drove for Dale Coyne Racing where she had a career best finish of 6th place twice. Following the Indycar/Cart merge she left to run the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series.

In 2011 she returned to Indianapolis to look for a return to American open wheel racing. She did not find a ride for 2011 though. On December 12th 2011 it was reported she had signed a 2 year deal with an option for a 3rd year to drive for Dragon Racing in Indycar Series with teammate Sebastien Bourdais.