Katherine Legge doing Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600. Because 'Why not?' | Exclusive
Katherine Legge is doing The Double. With support from e. l.
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There’s not much Katherine Legge hasn’t done in a motorsports career that spans nearly three decades. She’s raced Ferraris in Bahrain and Audis in Germany. She’s driven in the A1 Grand Prix, Formula E and the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
And she’s raced in the Indianapolis 500 and in the NASCAR Cup Series. Later this month, the 45-year-old native of England is going to try to do both on the same day. Legge will be the first woman to attempt “The Double” — racing in the Indy 500 and Charlotte’s Coca-Cola 600 — on May 24.
She confirmed her plans to USA TODAY Sports in an exclusive interview this week. “It’s an exciting time,” Legge told USA TODAY Sports. “It’s another groundbreaking thing that I can showcase to the world really that, if you set your mind to things, you can do anything, and you can do things that maybe you never even dreamt of before.
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