Wednesday 24th April 2013

Katherine Legge to race DeltaWing

Brit confirmed to partner Andy Meyrick at Laguna Seca

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Following on from yesterday’s catch-up on the DeltaWing project, news has come in this morning that Katherine Legge will now race the DeltaWing in partnership with Andy Meyrick.

Legge will replace Frenchman Olivier Pla, whose extended European racing schedule, including commitments to drive in the WEC and other GT series, has necessitated his departure from the team. The move will give DeltaWing Racing an all-British driver lineup. Legge, who was born in Haselmere, started her career in the UK, before moving to the States to take part in the Toyota Atlantic series. After progressing to the Champ Car series in 2006 and 2007, she then spent three years racing in the DTM series. She then returned to the US to race IndyCars in 2012, and this year she’s hoping to take her first steps in sportscar racing with the DeltaWing team.

Legge will partner Meyrick at Laguna Seca

The news follows Legge’s successful testing session in the DeltaWing earlier this month. “It was really exciting to get in the car for the first time,” she said. “Having driven lots of types of racing cars, I didn’t know what to expect, so I was very pleasantly surprised. It braked really well, it turned really positively, and it was really fast in a straight line – it drove like a really good racing car.”

There’s no word yet on whether Legge will continue to race with DeltaWing for the whole season; indeed, that may depend on whether the car will manage to overcome the recent reliability issues with its new Elan Motorsports powerplant following Nissan’s withdrawal of from the project earlier this year.

[Ved]

Stirling says no.

[vonuber]

Ved said:

Stirling says no.

Beat me to it

[tr7v8]

Doesn't need to parallel park it either

[zebedee]

are the recent reliability issues a single engine failure, or is there more to it?

[BlackCup]

A woman!?

[HDM]

Yes a woman, and a woman with some serious brave parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h2iqmliVMk

[enroz]

Good news for her, hopefully better than her Indy drive last year where she got stitched royally.

A very underated driver.

[4a4]

A woman racing driver?

Cue sexists and virgins...

Good luck to her - the car is incredible in the flesh

[BEN99W]

Im gutted that the deltawing won't be at le mans for the 24h this year. As a diesel-hater I'd like to think it had the potential be a David to the Audi Goliath even if it didn't come to much last year.

Ben

[redroadster]

Just shows how far advanced reliant robins were............

[zebedee]

BEN99W said:

Im gutted that the deltawing won't be at le mans for the 24h this year. As a diesel-hater I'd like to think it had the potential be a David to the Audi Goliath even if it didn't come to much last year.

Ben

or race in the same class

[Mike Brown]

What a bloody ugly car, as for a female good luck to her.

[Banjo47]

BlackCup said:

A woman!?

I know. Funny isnt it? They race cars, pilot aircraft, play sport, have careers, become Prime Ministers, in fact you would be amazed what they can do if you didnt have your head stuck so far up your ar*se.

[RobGT81]

Crap car, decent driver. Good luck to her, she seemed pretty quick a few years back.

[Leithen]

Woman drives most phallic vehicle ever made.

Cue Lord Flashheart quotes.....

[Motormatt]

Katherine was my instructor at a driver development day at Prodrive's test centre in Kenilworth a few years back, a very nice person who has gone on to much greater things since.

Good luck to her and the team.

[richb77]

I am surprised and bl**dy disappointed by the posts so far.

PH is turning into a real trolling forum recently.

Yes its a woman driver. Why on earth would that be an issue?

If she has a passion to win and the ability to drive fast why not? Its not a sperm donation race.

As for the delta wing. Some one has tried something different. Something not seen before. All you people that slag it off would sit well next to the neigh-sayers at the beginnings of manipulating aerodynamics and further back would have believed anything over 12mph would kill you.

Good luck the the team and drivers and its a shame they wont be competing at Le Mans.

[vonuber]

richb77 said:

I am surprised and bl**dy disappointed by the posts so far.

You do realise most (mine certainly) are tongue in cheek responses to Sir Moss?

Personally, I wish her all the best .

[Davi]

I sponsored her for a bit about 15 years ago as she was going through the lower single seaters, incredibly driven lass, I'm surprised she's not made it further sooner really.

[Leithen]

vonuber said:

richb77 said:

I am surprised and bl**dy disappointed by the posts so far.

You do realise most (mine certainly) are tongue in cheek responses to Sir Moss?

Personally, I wish her all the best .

Indeed, best of luck to her, her co driver and the team.

The car still looks like you know what however.....