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Katherine Legge was conscious after being involved in a violent crash with six laps to go in the Champ Car Grand Prix of Road America on Sunday.

Champ Car series president Steve Johnson said in a television interview that Legge “gave me a smile and gave me a thumbs up” in the ambulance after her car lost its wing and hit a fence, causing it to disintegrate and tumble down the track.

Legge, a 26 year-old rookie from England, crashed in a high-speed corner on the back part of the track known as “the kink.”

Television video replays showed that the rear wing came off Legge’s car going into the turn at high speed, causing the car to spin out and back into a fence. The force of the crash flipped the car into the air and the car began to disintegrate, spraying parts across the track.

A.J. Allmendinger was leading the race and declared the winner when it was red-flagged with four laps to go.

“I’m not letting a French guy clinch on American soil,” Allmendinger declared in Victory Lane, after becoming the first American to win a Champ Car race at Road America since Michael Andretti in 1996.

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