SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, January 7, 2025 – America’s No. 1 audio company, iHeartMedia, has tapped professional racecar driver Katherine Legge to host a new podcast for iHeart Women’s Sports, the first-ever audio platform dedicated exclusively to amplifying women’s sports.
Legge will debut “Throttle Therapy with Katherine Legge” bringing listeners inside stories with legends, new faces from the next generation of auto racing and conversations with the people who’ve supported her throughout her career as a pro athlete.
Listen to the podcast now HERE.
“I’m thrilled to officially join the iHeart Women’s Sports roster for 2025 with my first-ever podcast,’” said Legge. “With the help of my partners at e.l.f. Beauty, iHeartMedia is investing in and setting the standard for women’s sports coverage and I’m honored to be part of that. It will also be really cool to have my iHeart podcast’s branding on my midget race car at the Chili Bowl Nationals!”
Legge’s first episode will drop today, Tues., Jan. 7, 2025, with subsequent episodes dropping weekly on Tuesday throughout 2025. In Ep01, Legge speaks with Brent Cox, owner and founder of Abacus Racing about what she should expect racing on dirt for the first time at the upcoming Chili Bowl, and he shares how he transitioned from being an accountant to a team owner.
With the old adage that motorsports is the only sport where men and women can compete on an equal playing field, Legge sits at the very top in motorsports as the ONLY FEMALE driver in the big three: NTT INDYCAR Series, the NASCAR Cup Series, or Formula One. She became the first woman to win a major open-wheel race in North America in 2005, when she claimed victory in the ‘triple-a’ Atlantic Championship developmental series. Legge turned pro in 2006 and competed in the Champ Car World Series (now INDYCAR) in both 2006 & 2007, where she became the first woman to lead laps in the Series when she took the lead at the Milwaukee Mile and went on to secure her best finish in the Series with sixth place.
She became just the ninth woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 in 2012, and qualified for the race again in 2013, and for the 2023 Indy 500, she set the fastest one-lap (231.627 mph) and four-lap (231.070 mph) qualification speeds for a woman in the history of the storied event.
In 2024, she qualified a fourth time for the Indy 500 and championed a one-of-a-kind partnership with e.l.f. Cosmetics, who became the first-ever beauty brand to serve as a primary sponsor of an entry in the 108-year history of the event, for which the effort won two prestigious Clio Sports Advertising Awards. Later in 2024, she finished just three seconds off the front wheel drive record in the 102nd running of The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb as a rookie in the Acura Integra Type S DE5, reaching the 14,115-foot summit with a time of 10:51.359.
Later this month, she will add another machine to her list of cars in which she has competed in when she drives a midget car in the 2025 Chili Bowl Nationals for her first race on dirt. The prestigious annual indoor race starts Jan. 12, with the feature race set for Jan. 18 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“Throttle Therapy with Katherine Legge” is distributed by iHeartPodcasts and is available now on the iHeartRadio app and everywhere podcasts are heard.
For more information about iHeartMedia or Katherine Legge, please visit, www.iHeartMedia.com or www.katherinelegge.com.
About Throttle Therapy with Katherine Legge:
Katherine Legge gears up to make history this season, competing in some of the world’s toughest racing events in a quest to have one of the most memorable careers in racing. She’s bringing you inside stories with legends of sports, new faces from the next generation of auto racing, and conversations with the people who’ve supported her throughout her career as a pro athlete. S
he’s driven just about anything with four wheels, so she’ll be getting into everything from karting to NASCAR, and IndyCar to F1.
Listeners can hop into Katherine’s passenger seat now, HERE.
About iHeartMedia Inc.:
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: IHRT) is the leading audio media company in America, reaching over 90% of Americans in every month. iHearts broadcast radio assets alone have more consumer reach in the U.S. than any other media outlet; twice the reach of the next largest broadcast radio company; and over four times the ad-enabled reach of the largest digital only audio service.
iHeart is the largest podcast publisher according to Podtrac, with more downloads than the next two podcast publishers combined and has the number one social footprint among audio players, with seven times more followers than the next audio media brand, and the only fully integrated audio ad tech solution across broadcast, streaming and podcasts.
The company continues to leverage its strong audience connection and unparalleled consumer reach to build new platforms, products and services.
Visit iHeartMedia.com for more company information.
About Katherine Legge:
Katherine Legge is a trailblazing British racing driver renowned for breaking boundaries and setting records. As the fastest female qualifier in the history of the Indianapolis 500, Katherine has cemented her status as one of the sport’s elite competitors. She has many firsts in her career which also spans various racing disciplines, including IndyCar, Sports Cars, NASCAR, and international endurance racing, where she has continuously demonstrated exceptional talent, resilience, and versatility.
With a career that has taken her to iconic circuits around the globe, Katherine is celebrated for her fearless pursuit of new challenges, from leading teams at the renowned 24 Hours of Daytona to competing in the grueling Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
Legge has appeared on TODAY with Hoda & Jenna, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tamron Hall Show, 60 Minutes, Modern Marvels, and Jay Leno’s Garage.
Legge is represented by BRANDed Management and Klint Briney, who long oversaw the career of nine-time Indy 500 starter Sarah Fisher.
For more on Katherine Legge, please visit www.katherinelegge.com.
Source: BRANDed Management Inc.
