Katherine Legge will try and qualify for her third Indianapolis 500 this yr — her first IndyCar race since 2013 — in a automobile fielded by Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.
Legge will enter the race within the No. 44 Honda with sponsorship from Hendrickson, a world producer and provider of suspension programs. She is considered one of solely 9 girls to compete within the Indy 500, ending twenty second in 2012 and twenty sixth in 2013.
“I’m thrilled to be again at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing for the largest race on the planet, the Indy 500,” Legge mentioned. “Bobby gave me my first probability to win races for the group within the Jaguar I-PACE sequence a couple of years in the past, and it looks like a homecoming of kinds to be again with the group.
“Racing at Indy with an Indy 500-winning group and with Honda is a tremendous alternative and one I’m very grateful for and intend to profit from.”
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Legge will likely be teammates with Graham Rahal, Christian Lundgaard and Jack Harvey. Rahal Letterman Lanigan gained the Indy 500 in 2020 with Takuma Sato.
She has 11 profession IndyCar begins, and the British racer has been competing within the IMSA GTD class in an Acura NSX GT3. She scored a win, a pole and three podiums with Rahal Letterman Lanigan within the Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY sequence within the 2018-19 ABB FIA Formulation E season.
Legge competed within the Champ Automobile World Sequence full time in 2006 and 2007.
“I have been a fan of Katherine’s for a few years and know that, in the suitable scenario, she may be aggressive and determine into the result on the finish of the race,” Bobby Rahal mentioned. “She has pushed for us earlier than within the Jaguar electrical program and gained from pole in Mexico Metropolis and completed on the rostrum a number of occasions, so it’s good to have her again with us to work collectively on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the primary time.
“I do know she appears at this as an opportunity to point out everyone what she actually can do.”