KATHERINE NEEDS A LEGGE UP FOR INDY 500

Seasoned IndyCar female racer Katherine Legge is desperately looking for a car for the Indianapolis 500.

Here’s the problem. You’ve got millions of dollars in sponsorship, a crack team of engineers, mechanics and pit crew personal and one of the world’s leading car brands supplying the engines.

But then you find that no-one will give you a car to put it all together to contest the biggest race in the world – the Indianapolis 500.

Welcome to the world of Katherine Legge.

The hugely likeable and unquestionably talented Brit has put together all the key ingredients to make her fifth start in The Greatest Race on Earth, except for one reasonably important thing – a Dallara DW12 chassis.

Umm, maybe check your garage now, ‘cause she sure needs one if she is to make the grid come the month of May in Indiana.

Katherine Legge during practice at Carb Day at the 2024 Indianapolis 500. Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images

As bizzare as it may seem, not one of the current IndyCar teams has yet to agree to lease a spare chassis to Legge and her fully-funded and fully-staffed privateer team despite the fact that the Dallara DW12 has been around longer than Donald Trump’s bad hair.

For 2025 Legge has a full sponsorship portfolio, a complete crew and Honda has agreed to support her effort with its V6 turbo engines.

But how about a car? Not yet. Nope!

Last year Legge drove for Dale Coyne and did a pretty reasonable job before the engine expired.

Of course, Legge recently had an outing in the NASCAR Cup series and was, well, crap. But forget about that – she’s quite good at Indy, but probably not so good without a car.

Anyone with a DW12 chassis under the dust covers should call Katherine Legge right about now …

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