Katherine Legge’s diverse racing career has been distinguished by setting records and standards.
Katherine Legge’s diverse racing career has been distinguished by setting records and standards. The British-born Legge competes full or part time in IMSA SportsCar and NASCAR Infinity Series as well as IndyCar. It was in IndyCar that she became, in 2023, the Indianapolis 500’s fastest female qualifier in the 107-year history of that historic race.
In 2017, she delivered to Acura NSX its first victory worldwide at the Detroit Grand Prix. Legge moved to the United States in 2005 and, that year, became the first woman to win a developmental open-wheel race in North America when she won the Toyota Atlantic Championship season opener in Long Beach. Racing for Polestar Motor Racing, Legge would go on to notch series wins at Edmonton and San Jose that season. She followed that by besting F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen’s long-standing lap record in Formula Renault which led to her becoming just the second woman offered a F1 test.
Though she has enjoyed exceptional success–winning three championships and six races, along with 15 podium results–in her professional driving career, she has also worked to spread that success around. In May 2015, Legge joined the Grace Autosport project, an all-female team that, with the support of the FIA’s Women in Motorsport Commission, set out to promote technology and engineering as a career for young women. It’s something she continues to pursue in her non-racing life, especially as a Girl Scouts STEM Ambassador.
