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.

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.

With the title safely in the pocket of the departing Sebastien Bourdais, most of the attention at the season-ending Champ Car Mexican Grand Prix will be on whether Justin Wilson or Robert Doornbos can secure the runner-up spot.

Champ Car has added an extra European race for its newly-released 2008 schedule - but anyone hoping to see the likes of Justin Wilson and Katherine Legge race before their home fans is in for a disappointment.

An up-and-down Grand Prix of Holland for Katherine Legge saw her force her way into the top 10 early in the race but slip back as the afternoon progressed.

Justin Wilson leapt to second in the Champ Car series standings with a win at the Grand Prix of Holland after leader Sebastien Bourdais became the highest-profile victim of a freak mechanical defect.

For the second race in a row Dale Coyne Racing’s Katherine Legge saw her qualification efforts dogged by heavy traffic and errors.

Spare a thought for Katherine Legge, whose what-might-have-been race was the only disappointment in her team’s best-ever race weekend.

Sebastien Bourdais won Champ Car’s Belgian expedition on Sunday, to nobody’s great surprise - but, after him, the places were decided by whose fuel strategy worked best.

Justin Wilson left his practice woes behind him to put his car on the third row of the grid for today’s Champ Car race in Zolder, Belgium - but still felt he could have done better.

“Speedy” Dan Clarke hoped to celebrate a victory in Belgium with a dish of waffles: instead he’s being forced to sit on the sidelines eating humble pie after Champ Car officials banned him from at least the next race.