Katherine Legge crash Road America 2006

in the closing laps of the Champ Car World Series race at Road America, Katherine Legge looses a rear wing and spins into the wall at 180 miles per hour, flipping and disintegrating her car. She was unhurt.

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Sports

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• ChampCar
• Crash
• Flip
• Katherine
• Legge
• IndyCar
• Road
• America

[Villeneuve27]

i watched this live, I thought she died. I was shocked that they said she was alive.

[wpsracing108]

"Katherine have you got a copy" says the radio - how about?? "Katherine are you okay?"

[Bryan2799]

@wpsracing108 he started with that

[NASCARDesigns]

Almindinger leading, lol

[geek49203]

@DBoy02 - With the notable exception of the Paul Dana crash -- which was not survivable by any open-wheeled race car -- the 2003-2011 cars have been VERY safe compared to earlier Indy specs. The FIA sets rules for auto racing safety specs, and changes to increase safety since the last Indycar (Dallara) spec 8 years will be incorporated. For instance, the cockpit will be widened to 21" (or so I heard) to accommodate removing an injured driver.

[erasetoimprove]

@paulboggan yeah I think 2012 is going to be the start of something great

[DBoy02]

@paulboggan The current IndyCars are just as structurally sound as those Champ Cars were. They are built around identical crashsafety specs. IndyCars tend to break apart more spectacularly than this because the most notable Indy crashes are on ovals, at much higher speeds. The current IndyCars DO have a serious flaw though - they get airborne FAR too easily. Hopefully the new car will not have this issue.

[paulboggan]

@mattloque @mattloque hmmm, intelligent reply. im not arsed going into a history lesson right now.

[mattloque]

@paulboggan "motor racing in its purest form" HAHAHAHAHAHA. Right.

[unputer]

@CountryxGal That is comically wrong.  Disintegrate means to come apart - the opposite of integrate (to come together).

[TCampbell36]

Amazing that she survived this

[paulboggan]

@fatpat1823 no disrespect but i cant agree. indycars were at this time not a structurally sound as champ cars were but an indycar was and is designed to withstand a much bigger impact than those of a champ car . just thank god indycar is finally getting their act together and maybe very soon we can go back to the pre 1995 days when it was the best single seater category on the planet.