{"id":18727,"date":"2018-08-25T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=18727"},"modified":"2018-08-25T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T15:00:40","slug":"katherine-legge-open-to-trying-nascar-oval-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2018\/08\/25\/katherine-legge-open-to-trying-nascar-oval-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Legge open to trying NASCAR oval race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18728\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/katherinelegge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/katherinelegge.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/katherinelegge-568x418.jpg 568w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2018\/08\/katherinelegge-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a late race engine failure took out of the NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Mid-Ohio, Katherine Legge returned to the No. 15 JD Motorsports car for the race at Road America.<\/p>\n<p>While Road America may be Legge&#8217;s last planned NASCAR race for now. the former Champ Car\/IndyCar turned ISMA driver would consider running at a track with a few less turns than the road courses she has competed on thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about a run at an oval Legge responded &#8220;Oh absolutely. I have a bit of oval racing experience but that&#8217;s in an IndyCar&#8230;. I don&#8217;t know if it translates at all in any shape or form, probably doesn&#8217;t&#8230;.But, yes, I would love to,&#8221; via Autosport.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Legge is competing for Michael Shank Racing&#8217;s Acura team in the IMSA SportsCar Championship&#8217;s GTD class. She has signed on for the new FE-supporting Jaguar I-PACE eTrophy Series as well.<\/p>\n<p>Legge believes she mad several mistakes during the race at Road America and plans to improve her results at Road America by fixing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a late race engine failure took out of the NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Mid-Ohio, Katherine Legge returned to the No. 15 JD Motorsports car for the race at Road America. While Road America may be Legge&#8217;s last planned NASCAR race for now. the former Champ Car\/IndyCar turned ISMA driver would consider running at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[1001],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-18727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-katherine-legge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18727"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}