Champ Car Busts Legge for "Foolish Honesty"

Note to gullible: Katherine Legge was put on probation for rough driving at San Jose, but most everything else is made up.

English rookie Katherine Legge was put on probation for "childish, foolish" honesty immediately after the series' race in San Jose July 30, according to league insiders.

In her online diary, Legge admits that she hipchecked Andrew Ranger into the tyres late in the San Jose race, even though she was seven laps down and Ranger was on the lead lap.

"I got put on probation because I admitted to what I did," Legge wrote, "but I am not in the habit of doing anything like that again."

Champ Car World Series officials admitted they were stunned that Legge would actually admit to making a mistake.

"We're certainly not used to drivers being honest about taking each other out," said one official who declined to be named. "If this catches on, we'd have honesty breaking out all over the place and then what would you have? An empty track, is what. So we had to let Katherine know that she should at least come up with a Tracy-worthy fabrication about not doing it intentionally."

"(San Jose) was a difficult race, and I got hit by Andrew Ranger when I tried to pass him about three or four laps in," Legge actually wrote in her online diary. "That kind of annoyed me, as I've been hit several times and was getting kind of sick at being knocked around by these guys. They feel they can use me as a bumper car, but the way I reacted that weekend was careless, childish and stupid."

League officials said the retaliation wasn't the stupid part since that kind of thing goes on every lap without penalty. Failure to come up with even a rudimentary lie about doing it was where Legge earned her probation.

"I mean, she's right there on the Internet being honest about us letting NASCAR level banging go on," said a league official. "We can't have that. If she is that honest in the future, I'm afraid Legge will have to sit." Officials advised Legge to "repeat after us: 'just a racing incident.' Either that or just get out of your car and kick some ass. Go Jet Li on whoever hit you after the race. At least that gets us on SportsCenter."

If Legge again spears someone and tells the truth about it, league officials promised to put her on double-secret probation and "give her a stern talking to."