Katherine Legge is very clear in declaring her goal for 2006 source: champcarworldseries.com - Gordon Kirby "I'm really looking forward to next year," Legge says. "I'm hoping to do Atlantic again with Polestar and I'm hoping to win the championship. For me to move up to Champ Cars, I need to prove I'm better than anybody else. I'm not going to get there just because I'm a girl. "And I also want a championship behind me. I don't want people to think I'm flaky or anything like that. I think the confidence and experience of winning a championship would give me before I move up is what I need." By winning three Atantic races this year Legge has established herself as one of the most competitive lady drivers in the sport's history and if she can achieve her goal for 2006 she will become the first woman to win a major motor racing championship, outside of drag racing. In fact, the historical record of women in racing is not good, although it must be said that this may be the only sport where men and women compete together on the same playing field. In every other sport there are separate men's and women's divisions or even leagues. The woman who has had the most influence as a result of her racing success by far has been Shirley Muldowney who won three NHRA top fuel championships and eighteen NHRA races during a spectacular twenty-year career. Lucille Lee, Lori Johns and Shelly Anderson have also won NHRA races. Drag racing also has Angelle Sampey the very able motorcycle rider who has also won three NHRA championships and more than thirty races. Probably the most successful female circuit racer was Louise Smith who won no fewer than thirty-eight modified stock car races between 1945-'56. Three years ago Smith became the first woman inducted into Talladega's International Motor Sports Hall of Fame. The complete article at champcarworldseries.com
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