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History Of The 1,100-Mile Double: Drivers Who Attempted Indy 500, Coca-Cola 600

Katherine Legge will make history Sunday as the first woman to attempt to race 1,100 miles in two different types of race cars in what's known in motorsports as The Double. Legge will jump from Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 (12:30 p.m. ET on FOX and streaming on FOX One), the crown jewel of INDYCAR racing, to NASCAR’s longest race, the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte, that evening. But Legge is far from the first to try both legs of this journey. A total of five men have come before her, achieving a wide range of results in a tradition that goes back more than three decades. Here’s a closer look at the...