Throttle Therapy with Katherine Legge

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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