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Legge first woman to try Indy-NASCAR double
Key takeaways
- Katherine Legge will attempt to become the first woman to complete the "double" by racing in the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.
- Legge's agency, BRANDed Management, announced Wednesday that she would add the May 24 NASCAR race -- competing in the No. 78 for Live Fast Motorsports -- to her entry in the Indy 500 with A.J.
- Legge, 45, is set to enter her fifth Indianapolis 500.
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Katherine Legge will attempt to become the first woman to complete the "double" by racing in the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day.
Legge's agency, BRANDed Management, announced Wednesday that she would add the May 24 NASCAR race -- competing in the No. 78 for Live Fast Motorsports -- to her entry in the Indy 500 with A.J. Foyt Motorsports' No. 11 car.
"It's another groundbreaking thing that I can showcase to the world really that, if you set your mind to things, you can do anything, and you can do things that maybe you never even dreamt of before," Legge told USA Today.
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