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Natural ability
Name, Kate Broadbent. Track, PFI. Date, 20/09/24. OMS Racing. Formula Woman. That's how the Driver Feedback Sheet started. Kate was up at...
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Sep 21, 20242 min read
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Big Biceps
Being good at driving karts is not just down to track time and technique. You have to be fit too. There are serious g-forces, arm-killing...
clivebroadbent
Sep 18, 20242 min read
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The little drum
£45 seems quite reasonable for a new drum. Kate's a percussionist as well as a racing driver, and over the years I've spent thousands on...
clivebroadbent
Sep 16, 20241 min read
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Goody Two Shoes
An 18th century story tells the tale of a poor orphan girl who only had one shoe. A rich man took pity on her and gave her a new pair of...
clivebroadbent
Sep 15, 20241 min read
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Greece or Gosport
Gosport is a beautiful place. Okay, I'm kidding. But I do remember having a fab time there as a navy cadet, visiting the submarine base...
clivebroadbent
Sep 12, 20241 min read
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The old man is snoring
"It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring. He bumped his head on the back of the bed and couldn't get up in the morning." We...
clivebroadbent
Sep 10, 20242 min read
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Timing and Rhythm
When you’re racing Senior Rotax you need timing and rhythm. Timing to make those hairy overtakes and rhythm to be consistent round the...
clivebroadbent
Sep 7, 20241 min read
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MRI bleary eye
Kate's bleary eyed this morning. Usually, if we have to get up early, it's to travel to a race track somewhere. But today we're off to...
clivebroadbent
Sep 2, 20241 min read
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bête noire
Kate did far better than she'd hoped with Club 100 today. She was hoping to finish in the top ten. Well, she qualified P4 for the first...
clivebroadbent
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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Give and take
Fresh after last night's P1 success in the Super 90 at Rye, Kate Broadbent was off early this morning to the 'bomb crater' to teach...
clivebroadbent
Aug 31, 20241 min read
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10-4 for a copy
Back in the seventies, Citizen Band radio was a big thing. Known simply as CB, we could use it to talk to each other, car-to-car, whilst...
clivebroadbent
Aug 27, 20241 min read
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Mud, glorious mud
We knew it was going to be tough going, but boy, it really was tough going. The organiser of Dawn to Dusk said it was the worst weather...
clivebroadbent
Aug 26, 20241 min read
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Practice makes perfect
Kate's racing in the 6-hour ladies Dawn to Dusk enduro race tomorrow. And today we're at the race site for a practice. A practice for...
clivebroadbent
Aug 24, 20241 min read
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P1
Well, it couldn't have been a better finish to the week. Kate's been on the Buckmore Driver Development Programme, and it's been a week...
clivebroadbent
Aug 23, 20241 min read
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Glutton for punishment
Nope, this has nothing to do with the excellent talk we had on nutrition from Dean Fouache of Karting Athlete Development (...
clivebroadbent
Aug 22, 20241 min read
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Déjà vu
Two and a half weeks ago I was standing at marshal post 5 on the Brands Hatch Indy circuit. Today, courtesy of a simulator session on...
clivebroadbent
Aug 21, 20241 min read
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Jaws
The film, Jaws, is scary, really scary. There are an awful lot of Hitchcock-type scenes that keep people away from the water for months,...
clivebroadbent
Aug 20, 20241 min read
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Generation Game
I don't know if you remember the Generation Game TV show. Bruce Forsyth ("nice to see you, to see you nice") and then Larry Grayson...
clivebroadbent
Aug 20, 20241 min read
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1 in 6
Kate starts the Buckmore Park Driver Development Programme today. To say she's excited would be an understatement. I don't think she got...
clivebroadbent
Aug 19, 20241 min read
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It's broken
Don't worry. It's not a bone, it's a clutch lever. It was bound to happen. Kate can only just reach the ground with her TC. It's a good...
clivebroadbent
Aug 17, 20241 min read
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