All through practice and qualifying Laura was setting some of the quickest lap times amongst the best kart racers in the world. In qualifying she made grid 7 which put her into Superpole for the top 12 drivers. Continue reading
Laura tests an old race car around Brands. Continue reading
Quick all week Laura was constantly upsetting some of the established works drivers at La Conca.
After getting a 15th grid in the final a typical karting fist corner pile up took her out in the first race but she recovered to 17th in the second final.
Laura is selected for a book project by one of the countries top photographers. Continue reading
Things were looking up for Laura in practice, She was fast and quickly at ease with the new equipment. A sparkplug malfunction after half a lap in qualifying forced Laura to start from the back of the grid for the two heats. She made 28th grid in the pre final, made her way through the pack up to 17th but the power started to become intermittent and this resulted eventually in a non finish. In the main final she moved up from 34th to 20th when one of the drivers, of whom she had just passed, spun her round. She rejoined the race to pass another three drivers and 24th position was the result. Continue reading
Laura has spent this morning posing for the national press.
The story that the pink helmet just had to go, to help stop the rear end attacks by the boys, has ended up in the Metro and we hope that other publicity will come from the great photo’s that were taken by the other main papers. See the latest article in the Metro. Continue reading
Regretfully Laura is to leave PDB in 2010 as she wants to keep her association with her UK team manager Dean Panrucker and the Millennium Motorsport’s team. Because of this she is to switch to the Tonykart chassis and she will also use the GFR TM engines as used in the UK events last year.
Laura would like to thank Tim Gillard for the fantastic chassis and his continual support for the last 5 years. Laura would also like to thank the whole of the PDB team for their generous support, they really are a great team to be involved with and we have thoroughly enjoyed our years karting with them.
Jenson presents Laura with the 11th place award won at the Super 1 Championship. Laura was also a nominee for the Gold Star award by the BWRDC.
After getting a bent axle in the pre final Laura came from the rear of the grid to 11th in this the final big race of the year. Continue reading
