The Rough, Rough Weekend of the Fastest Woman in Indy 500 History

“We don’t know whether it’s a toe link, or—“ Legge told the NBC broadcast once she got out of the car. “We tried changing that, but maybe it’s the steering rack or something. We’re going to try and fix it and get back out. There’s not much we can do multiple laps down, but it’s still good experience.”won the race

with now-part-time IndyCar driver Takuma Sato in 2020. Before she got in the car, she thought she had a chance to finish in the top six. But reality set in quickly. During her first test at Texas Motor Speedway in April, Legge had two main challenges: first, the nerves.“Texas was bonkers,” Legge said. “It’s been a while since I’ve been in anything that quick. When I got in the gas, I immediately came back off. The first time I kept it flat after about six or seven laps of lifting, I'm like: 'Why do people do this? It's so fast.

“I think that was just the way the cookie crumbled,” Legge said. “It's so dependent on the conditions, like the heat and the track and everything else, so I was fortunate. You're sitting there like, 'Oh, please let me be in, I really don't want to be racing for the last row.' You’ve got the emotions of that, then the next day, you’ve got the emotions of your teammates bumping each other out. You don't want to be fighting each other to get in the race.

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