KATHERINE LEGGE Was 5.5 Seconds Ahead of Record Pace Before Weather Hit

June 26, 2025

by John Oreovicz // from racer.com

• KATHERINE LEGGE was crushing it at Pikes Peak until Mother Nature intervened – she was running 5.5 seconds ahead of her previous year’s pace and needed only 3 seconds to break the front-drive record of 10:48.094. Weather forced an early end to the run, but the math was clear: that record was about to fall to someone who’s spent two decades proving there’s no car she can’t master.
• The veteran racer’s preparation game was next-level this time around, studying her own footage from 2023 and getting coaching from Paul Dallenbach. She even drove the course twice in a street Acura the day before just to memorize barrier placement. When you’ve got 20 years of American racing under your belt – from being the first woman to win in Formula Atlantic to wheeling everything from the DeltaWing to NASCAR – you know how to prep.
• What stood out wasn’t just LEGGE’s performance, but the women lifting each other up around her. Lyn St. James was there being “the mecca of all things in North American female driving,” Michele Mouton got inducted into the Pikes Peak Hall of Fame, and Cara Krstolic waved the green flag. As LEGGE put it: “We all lift each other up” – and she’s already planning her third attempt for 2026 because that record isn’t going to break itself.

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