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By Don Riddell, CNN

(CNN) — Racing driver Katherine Legge is preparing to tackle one of the most daunting feats in all of sport: The Memorial Day “double.”

Also known as the Indy-Charlotte double, she’s only the sixth driver, and the first female, attempting to race the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. They are the longest races on the IndyCar and the NASCAR circuits, respectively, and she admits that she’s still grappling with the enormity of the challenge.

“Being focused for a three-to-four-hour IndyCar race then a five-hour NASCAR race, it’s the same as driving from New York to Daytona Beach pretty much at, gosh, an average of 200 miles an hour,” she explained. “You cannot lose focus for a second of any of that. I don’t think anybody can comprehend that.”

When asked by CNN Sports how she’s preparing for such an extraordinary feat, she laughed and joked, “tequila.”

The double presents a grueling test of physical endurance and it’s a highly complex logistical challenge. Legge admits that, even during her media interviews this week, her mind has been wandering as she continues to process the task ahead of her.

“I was thinking about what I’m going to do with a hybrid strategy at the same time as telling people about how I’m going to do the double. I don’t know if my brain’s gonna be fit for anything next week,” she said.

Admitting to being a “crazy person,” Legge described how it would be easy to get carried away with the thrill of the chase without fully considering its crucial logistics.

“It’s this weird disconnect, right? Where you’re like, ‘That’s so cool.’ And conceptually, you know exactly what’s involved, but it doesn’t sink in,” she said.

She knows there will be a helicopter ride from the Brickyard in Indianapolis to a nearby airstrip and a private jet flight of about an hour. Upon landing in North Carolina, there will be another helicopter ride to the infield of the Charlotte Motor Speedway and a shuttle to the pit lane, and that’s assuming everything runs to time in Indy – without any curveballs.

Hopefully, the weather cooperates, because there might not be a second to spare; any delays in Indianapolis could scupper the rest of the challenge, but Legge says she only worries about the things she can control.

Hydration and nutrition will be critical.

“What am I going to eat when I get out of the Indy car?” she mused, “Because I’m going to feel sick, you always feel nauseous.”

She’ll be hooked up to an intravenous drip on the plane and is contemplating how to offset the expected burn of five to six thousand calories throughout the day; gels, gummies, bananas and baby food could all be on the menu when she’s racing in Charlotte.

A small club

John Andretti was the first driver to sign up for double duty in 1994, finishing 10th at Indy before engine failure curtailed his involvement in Charlotte around the halfway stage.

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By Lucy Bayly, CNN

(CNN) — Kevin Warsh was sworn in Friday at the White House as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, succeeding Jerome Powell in one of the world’s most powerful economic positions.

Warsh, 56, steps into the four-year role at a time of mounting uncertainty over inflation, geopolitical conflicts and volatile financial markets, alongside rising political pressure on the central bank’s independence.

“I expect he will go down as one of the truly great chairmen of the Federal Reserve that we’ve ever had, I really believe that,” President Donald Trump said during remarks from the East Room, marking his first public appearance with Warsh since he nominated him earlier this year. “He’s got abilities that very few people have, covers a lot of territory, and he’s respected by everybody.”

Warsh has not been shy about the significant changes he envisions for the Fed, which he emphasized in brief remarks after being sworn in.

“I will lead a reform-oriented Federal Reserve, learning from past successes and mistakes, both escaping static frameworks and models and upholding clear standards of integrity and performance,” Warsh said.

Hand-picked by Trump in January when expectations pointed to stabilizing growth and cooler inflation, Warsh now takes the reins of an economy that is shifting under the weight of the US-Israeli war with Iran. The oil shock has sharply pushed up gasoline prices, mortgage rates have climbed to their highest level in nine months and overall inflation has surged to the highest level in three years.

The US consumer has remained surprisingly resilient, continuing to spend despite higher prices and insulating the economy from a downturn. But affordability concerns have left many Americans unhappy about the economy, which could lead to major political ramifications for the midterm elections. Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low: Americans feel worse now than they did during wars, 9/11, the Great Recession, the Covid-19 pandemic and the inflation surge afterward.

That leaves Warsh facing a sharper balancing act and puts him under immediate pressure to signal how the Fed will respond to the tension in the US economy: Hold rates steady and wait for clarity, or shift toward a more restrictive stance if inflation proves harder to contain.

Warsh is widely viewed as being aligned with Trump, who has aggressively demanded rate cuts and even joked that he would sue Warsh if he does not lower borrowing costs. Trump has said rates must be lower to reduce the government’s borrowing costs and to juice economic growth.

But Trump said Friday he wants Warsh “to be totally independent.”

“Don’t look at me, don’t look at anybody, just do your own thing and do a great job,” Trump added. However, he repeatedly berated Powell for not lowering rates quickly enough, calling him a “numbskull” and an “average mentally person” and even threa

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