The Return of Kat Legge?

[bzcam]

I am going to go out on a limb and predict that Kat will race at Indy in the 500 with Sarah Fisher Racing. Sarah's 2nd car is still TBA. Sarah and Kat were together at a cancer benefit several nights ago. Kat has been tweeting and hinting on her website that something is brewing. I think this is it. You heard it here first!

BZ

[Scotty G.]

Besides having breasts, what has Kat Legge ever done to to elicit a current Indy Car ride (besides win a couple of Atlantics races against the worst field of drivers in the history of mankind) and survive a horrible crash in Champ Car? Plus what has she done in the past few years in racing?

She has no business at Indy. She'd never qualify anyway this year.

If Sarah puts a 2nd car on the track, it will be with someone who has a chance of qualifying. Someone with experience. Someone who knows oval racing and Indy.

She tried the "rookie" thing with her 2nd car last year and it was a huge failure. Doubt she goes that way again.

[Junqueira fan]

She seems fairly adament that she's going to be racing an Indycar soon. She's apparently having merchandise made...

It seems to be somewhat of a optimistic front she's putting up however. I thought that if we didn't see her in St. Pete, we wouldn't see her until Indy and if we don't see her at Indy, I very much doubt we'll see her all year.

[Mark in Oshawa]

With Scotty and Andrew around, I am glad I stopped in on this thread.

God help us, with you two ding dongs making the rules, we would have nothing.

Katherine Legge isn't the second coming of Ayrton Senna, Emmo Fittapaldi or Rick Mears. She did however win in Atlantics, and contrary to what people want to say, she did race some decent competition and with simliar equipment ran with with them. She raced hard, and passed people for leads, not using pit strategy to get finishes like Danica often has done.

So she gets to Champ Car and has so so machinery, survives a big wreck (she was running 5th at the time, not marking time on a road course) and eventually gets shuffled out of the mix. She has done little in DTM but with an old car and limited budget, that is the way things usually go.

So does she deserve a shot at Indy? Damn right she does, just as much as anyone else. At least I know who Kat is. Cant say I know who Charlie Kimball really is until this year. All this talk Andrew wants of having get schooled is the same neanderthal thinking that ran the sport into the ground. News flash Andy, Indy is unique, it has quirks and it is tough to WIN at but it isn't tough to learn to compete there. A competent driver in decent equipment is going to go fast and if the engineers are able to get the information they need, qualify at Indy. She might find racing there tough, but many great Sprint car guys went home beaten up bad by Indy also. The modern Indy car isn't any different on a lot of levels than what she was used to in CCWS. Less power, a little more balance. She will be fine if she gets a decent ride. If she can find the people who want to back her, and team willing to take her on, all power to her.

I am a Kat Legge fan, but I also know I am fan of her as a person first. I don't know how good a race driver she can be. I just know she wants to do it the right way, and it isn't like we don't know who she is. She is more a name than some of the no hopers that keep showing up. Hell, I bet she doesn't tear up as much machinery as half of Jimmy Vasser's outfit. Viso and company are hell on race cars....but they will be there.

[Anubis]

She has done little in DTM but with an old car and limited budget, that is the way things usually go.
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Plenty of ex-F1 drivers have been decidedly average in DTM with much newer machinery, so I'd agree it's not a fair barometer. She's won in the accepted feeder series then hit a financial impasse. She's hardly the first driver to have that happen. We should be giving her credit for staying motivated, not slagging her off before she's even turned a wheel in anger.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Plenty of ex-F1 drivers have been decidedly average in DTM with much newer machinery, so I'd agree it's not a fair barometer. She's won in the accepted feeder series then hit a financial impasse. She's hardly the first driver to have that happen. We should be giving her credit for staying motivated, not slagging her off before she's even turned a wheel in anger.

There are some that will attack her only because she raced in Champ Car with a 2nd and 3rd rate operation and didn't always get results. Well, at Indy, on Sarah Fisher's team if she goes there I am not looking for great results, but I know it wont be Kat's fault for lacking talent. She has enough speed in her in my opinion to make the field.

[bzcam]

Oh well, no rookie orientation for Kat. Maybe next year.

BZ

[bzcam]

Kat announced a deal with Sam Schmidt Motorsports yesterday. Looks like a partial deal for 2011 and a full program for 2012. Way to go Kat! No ride for Indy this year but we may still see her on a road or street course before the season is over.

http://indycargarage.blogspot.com/20...h-indycar.html

BZ

[downtowndeco]

First off yes, I'd like to see her in Indycar. She has a lot of fans and is a decent racer. No world beater, but decent. The more the merrier I say. But to be honest I think part of the reason so many of the CC fans got behind her was for one simple reason; she was not Danica. Or put another way, she was their Danica. Would she had gotten as much fan support if she would have decent driver named Karl instead of Kat? Probably not, and that's OK. You work with what you've got. Just keep things in perspective & be honest about it.

PS. As advised I've updated my "Ignore" list (this time for good) so if I don't respond it's because I'm trying to keep my blood pressure down, not because I don't have a witty reply for you. : )

[Mark in Oshawa]

First off yes, I'd like to see her in Indycar. She has a lot of fans and is a decent racer. No world beater, but decent. The more the merrier I say. But to be honest I think part of the reason so many of the CC fans got behind her was for one simple reason; she was not Danica. Or put another way, she was their Danica. Would she had gotten as much fan support if she would have decent driver named Karl instead of Kat? Probably not, and that's OK. You work with what you've got. Just keep things in perspective & be honest about it.

PS. As advised I've updated my "Ignore" list (this time for good) so if I don't respond it's because I'm trying to keep my blood pressure down, not because I don't have a witty reply for you. : )

Kat was Champ Car's Danica in the sense she was the first full time Female driver at the time Danica was coming to be the name. That said, Kat Legge won two races in Atlantic against a deeper field than Danica didn't win against in Atlantics. So just based on record in the "minors" one could point out Danica didn't deserve her ride as much as Katharine would deserve hers.

That all said, we all know why women racing drivers with less in the way of record get rides. It is the novelty and marketing angles being played. Racing is a business. If it was based on qualifications, half the field at Indy wouldn't be there on raw skill.

It aint fair, but it is racing. So all things being equal in this wacky world, most of us who watched Katharine Legge come up do think she has a place in Indycar racing. She is good people, and she isn't going to embarass herself. This isn't Milka Duno....