Brits on Pole

Currently representing Audi in DTM, Katherine Legge is a former Champ Car Series driver with Dale Coyne Racing and PKV. She was the first woman to win a major open-wheel race when she took victory in her first start in the Toyota Atlantic Champ Car feeder series in 2005. Legge is a past winner of the British Racing Drivers’ Club “Rising Star” award and tested for the Minardi F1 team and Team GBR in A1GP.

This weekend presented a host of options for motorsport fans - you could take your pick from DTM at Brands Hatch, BTCC at Silverstone or Superleague Formula at Donington Park. But wherever you went, you couldn’t escape the weather.

Yeah, yeah, we know. DTM is tin-top, and we’re supposed to be about open-wheel racing. But we like an excuse to catch up with what Katherine Legge is doing.

One of the most discussion-provoking things we have ever posted on this site was a comment that we’d like to see more female drivers participating in motorsport. It’s still a hot topic in 2008 - and one that ITV F1 journalist Louise Goodman has tackled in her latest Q&A column for the broadcaster’s website.

Seven British drivers lined up for the start of the American open wheel season last year, the final campaign to see the sport split between IndyCar and Champ Car. Now, with the first unified season on the horizon, we look at their prospects for 2008.

Katherine Legge is looking forward to making a new start as a factory driver for Audi in the DTM racing series, after describing her 2007 champ car season as “kind of a disaster, to be honest”.

Champ car racer Katherine Legge is to drive in a prestigious karting event as part of a team that also includes a drag racer and a karting and NASCAR legend.

Had you been thinking that it really was time that Lewis Hamilton got a bit more publicity and recognition? Or perhaps you reckon Jenson Button really has been under-appreciated this year, or that David Coulthard could do with a bit of glory after a career as arguably the most successful British F1 driver de nos jours.

In the US, the holiday season starts with Thanksgiving weekend - and Champ Car’s resident Brits are getting into the spirit with a road safety campaign which aims to cut road deaths during the festive period.

None of the three Brits running in the final race of the 2007 Champ Car season were happy with how their afternoon went - but Justin Wilson had the consolation that his only rival for second place in the championship had an even worse time of it.

Justin Wilson spent the whole of the two Champ Car Mexican Grand Prix qualifying sessions in with a shout of pole - but ended up having to settle for fifth.