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Katherine Legge and producer Grace do a follow-up Q&A! Katherine shares the car she’d love to drive and describes her ideal track. She confesses she barely remembers races, doesn’t use pre-race music, and tells a paddock story where an offended gentleman driver swore at her after she passed him on an out lap.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge is joined by producer Grace for another round of audience questions! She shares which cars took the longest for her to feel comfortable in, what separates the drivers who last from those that don’t, and the race she would erase from her memory and redo, if she could.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge speaks with IndyCar team leader Andy O’Gara about what it takes to build and sustain a racing program, drawing on their recent experience at A.J. Foyt Racing and his years with Sarah Fisher. Andy traces his start growing up at the Indy 500 through his father’s career, becoming a mechanic at 18 and rising to crew chief, then helping launch Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing. They discuss misconceptions about team success, the importance of people and culture over pure budget, engineering and attention to detail, sponsor loyalty through honesty, and balancing racing with family.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge is joined by Gail Truess, a championship-winning rally driver who became the first woman to win a national SCCA Pro Rally Championship and later transitioned into pace car, ride, and safety roles around INDYCAR. She recalls discovering rallying in college through a Mazda tire test, learning largely by feel without rally schools or pace notes, and advancing quickly with a pro team and navigator. Also, she explains dispatch protocols, multi-car incident priorities, staying calm amid chaos, and safety evolution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge talks with Tim Baughman, INDYCAR’s Sr. Director of Track Safety and Medical Services, about how motorsport safety works behind the scenes and how it has evolved. Baughman traces his path from Indianapolis paramedic training at Methodist Hospital and a career in the Indianapolis Fire Department to joining the Indy 500 safety team in 1993, traveling with the IRL from 1996, and becoming IINDYCAR’s safety director after retiring as an assistant chief in 2018. He describes the culture, training, planning, and execution required to respond within seconds, including coordination with race control, safe vehicle positioning, driver assessment, transport decisions, and track cleanup and repairs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Description Katherine Legge is joined by Dr. Julia Vaizer, medical director for IndyCar and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the first female medical director in IndyCar history. Vaizer explains how early motorsports fandom and a MotoGP tragedy pushed her to merge racing with emergency medicine, leading her to become the first fellow in the Motorsports Medicine Fellowship and later IndyCar leadership. They discuss how IndyCar medical teams coordinate with other series and specialists, research projects like safest driver extrication and analyzing IMS patient data, and what race day at the Indy 500 looks like.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge recaps her month of May and her Double Duty attempt. After a Watkins Glen NASCAR Cup return, she joined a newly assembled Indy 500 program, praising the crew and describing setup struggles, conservative downforce choices, and qualifying 26th/27th after drawing last in line. She reveals the travel disruptions that caused her to miss Indy obligations,  the behind-the-wheel perspective from the end to her Indy 500 race, and car challenges during the Coca-Cola 600. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge welcomes Marshall Pruett back for a part two focused on IndyCar’s underlying state, who holds power, and how series decisions mix racing, business, and politics. They discuss IndyCar’s demographic, the push to “youthify” via digital platforms, and what IndyCar, IMSA, and NASCAR can learn from each other about cars, drivers, and event presentation. Pruett explains how he evaluates rumors, PR spin, timing, and when to withhold accurate stories to avoid undue harm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Headed into Memorial Day weekend and her Double Duty attempt, Katherine Legge welcomes NASCAR champion Kyle Larson. Kyle recounts his racing upbringing, starting at age seven in Northern California racing dirt “outlaw carts,” moving into sprint cars, USAC midgets and Silver Crown, and transitioning to NASCAR. Kyle shares his experiences attempting the Indy 500–Coca-Cola 600 double, covering logistics, pressure, weather disruption, and the IndyCar hybrid learning curve, and gives Katherine advice on her attempt.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge returns to IndyCar after a year and a half away! She explains why Indy demands respect, how equipment differences shape results, and why she pushed to rejoin with HMD Motorsports supported by AJ Foyt Racing. She previews a busy May with sim work and the NASCAR Cup Series Watkins Glen race before heading into Indy 500 preparations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge shares an update on her newly announced return to the Indy 500 with HMD Motorsports and AJ Foyt Racing, describing the massive behind-the-scenes effort, sponsor and team coordination, and her push to be as prepared and competitive as possible after a year away from IndyCar (and after a NASCAR season). Joined by producer Grace for listener Q&A, Katherine responds to Stephen A. Smith’s claim that NASCAR drivers aren’t athletes, explaining how she trains (CrossFit, running, core/upper body, heat prep), and sharing her pre-race routines and recovery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge welcomes racer Dystany Spurlock to discuss her transition from motorcycle drag racing to her ARCA debut, where she had a historic top-10 finish. Dystany recounts starting motorcycle drag racing as a teenager at Virginia Motorsports Park on a Suzuki GSX-R 750, learning through test days, YouTube, and her godfather, and explains the ladder from XDA to NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle, where she debuted last year. A former football corner/safety and the first girl in her county to play, she outlines her goal to reach NASCAR Cup, juggling NHRA with her ARCA debut while training in North Carolina with sims, film, and late-model seat time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge welcomes engineer and team manager-turned-motorsports journalist and podcast host for RACER, Marshall Pruett to trace his racing roots – from his mechanic father to retiring from IndyCar work just to be sucked back in through coaching and engineering before starting his media career. They dig into the tricky dynamics of reporting on friends and break down why “identical” IndyCars still vary so much.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge welcomes F1 culture writer and host of No Grip, Lily Herman, who explains how her Engine Failure newsletter, born from Drive to Survive-era curiosity, and her previous podcast, Choosing Sides, led to her new show that treats F1 like a “traveling circus.” They discuss everything from the astrological placement of drivers and paddock gossip, to F1’s new rules and the F1 Academy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katherine Legge talks with AJ Foyt Racing president Larry Foyt about running an IndyCar team and where the sport is headed. Foyt says AJ first told him “no way” to racing, so he quit other sports, swept floors at the shop, and started in go-karts. They discuss the grind of sponsorship and budgets, why results are about people and culture as much as money, moving operations from Texas to Indianapolis to find talent, working well with Santino Ferrucci, and how technical alliances (like their Penske partnership) shape IndyCar’s future and potential growth to three cars.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.