Katherine Legge to test Toro-Rosso

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Katherine Legge will reportedly become the first female driver in nearly fifteen years to test a F1 car.

The Toyota Atlantic rookie is slated to get behind the wheel of a Red Bull-owned Minardi at the end of November.

Legge, a 25-year-old Briton, will steer the ‘Squadra Toro Rosso’ car at Vallelunga (Italy), GrandPrix.com reported, and would be the first woman since Giovanna Amati in 1991 to feel the power of a F1 machine.

Earlier this year, the former Formula Renault and British F3 driver, Legge, trounced the boys at Long Beach, and also won in Edmonton and San Jose.

Source: F1Central

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Wrong. US GP 2004. A female tested the McLaren. I dont remember her name though. Will try googling

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Yea Nikhil you are right. There was some woman who tested for McLaren at Indianapolis. I have that article in a magazine. Will look for the name in it.

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today i read in toi that scot speed will spear head the squadra toro rosso team and DC will spearhead the senior redbull racing team.

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yes… that is true. Red Bull have two teams in F1 next year. For the uninitiated… RED BULL in Italian is Toro Rosso.

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Cool, and I had read about a woman testing for McLaren…

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frm wat i can recall…a female driver was to test for mclaren but that eventually din’t take place.

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No no. She did. She was already a driver in the NASCAR or something like that. She was driving for one of those typically US car racing series.

DAMN. If I was fine, I would have dug out an old copy of Autocar India or OVerdrive and given you the name.

Bear with me for 2 and a half months :stuck_out_tongue: I could be wrong too. But I doubt it.