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When Katherine Legge won in her first start in the Toyota Atlantic series at Long Beach earlier this year, there were plenty of people ready to downplay that win. After all, she inherited the victory when Rocky Moran Jr. stopped with a wheel bearing failure. She had also punted out at least one other driver to get up to second in the race prior to Moran dropping out.
However, it now seems that the Long Beach win was no fluke. This last weekend in Edmonton, Legge qualified well, and raced to the front to win her second Atlantic race. This is two more victories than the victory total amassed by a certain Ms. Danica Patrick when she raced in Atlantics in 2003 and 2004.
What is more interesting is that this season is the first season that Legge has had a full-time ride. She has previously only competed in selected races or part-seasons due to lack of funding. As a result she has only driven in 20+ competitive auto races in her career - a fraction of the number of races that many of her competing drivers (including Danica) have competed in. The lack of experience shows, in that she has tended to run off course in qualifying trying to find the limit. However, everybody watching her has come away with the impression that, despite the lack of experience, she is a real bare-knuckle racer, willing to do what it takes to find a way past opponents. She has already been warned for blocking in Atlantics (note - a certain Mr. A. Senna also received more than a couple of warnings from race stewards while he was competing in lesser formulae). She clearly also has the speed - she has pole positions in other formulae.
Being 25 years of age, and having to beg and scrape for every chance, also appears to have given her a fairly wise head. She has worked out how to duck the inevitable comparisons with Danica, and is adamant that she wants to succeed by winning, not by being a woman. She also thinks that she is not yet ready to step up to Champ Cars, which may be true - she currently lacks consistency on a race-to-race basis.
So far, she is on the right track, and I suspect that Kevin Kalkhoven, having agreed to fund her for the season to run in Atlantics, has already more than justified his original investment. Expect to see her in a Champ Car test before the end of the season.