KATHERINE LEGGE had one thing on her mind as Sunday night turned to this morning at Charlotte Motor Speedway: getting some much-needed sleep.

“The highlight will be when I can finally lay down because I’m so tired,” Legge said.

Legge’s quest to become the first woman to complete “The Double” — racing 1,100 miles spread out over two tracks on one day — ended quickly on Sunday when she crashed out in the Indianapolis 500.

She flew to North Carolina and finished in 31st at the World 600 and 12 laps back after losing a tire mid-race.

Legge said now it is time to regroup after what she called “a calamity of errors.”

The British driver completed just 17 of the scheduled 200 laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s iconic 2.5-mile oval before she ran into the car of Ryan Hunter-Reay, knocking both cars out of the race. Hunter-Reay started spinning in the second turn and braked hard to keep his car off the wall, and the trailing Legge steered inside to try to avoid the 2013 Indy 500 winner. But as smoke emerged from both braking cars, Legge’s car hit the inside wall.

“I’m fine, just gutted more than anything,” she said after being checked and released at the track’s infield medical centre. “Ryan spun in front of me, I think he was battling his car for a minute, I was just chilling, trying to save fuel and he spun down the track and started coming up the track, so I tried to go low and just didn’t make it.”

Legge was the sixth driver ever to attempt “The Double”. The only driver to complete it is three-time Nascar champion Tony Stewart in 2001.

The other five drivers who previously tried had months to prepare, but Legge’s teams didn’t announce her attempt until last week.