Career
Growing up in Victoria, Canada, she began competing as a teenager in karting events. By her early 20s, after competing in Formula Ford and Formula Atlantic, she attracted the attention of several top-tier car owners, and tested an IndyCar owned by Dick Simon. She signed a deal to make her debut at the Indianapolis 500 in 1984, but during an IMSA sports car event at Brainerd, Minnesota in July 1983, she suffered horrific injuries in a crash which ended her racing career.
She is now a corporate safe driving instructor and speaker.
From 1987 to 1994 she led safe driving and new car intros for Audi of America, Incorporated., driver clinics for Boeing employees through the Boeing Employees Automobile Club and did training for the then-new Audi Quattro Club"s first instructor classes. Kathy is also a breast cancer survivor including a stem cell transplant, trial drugs and radiation.
