News and Updates

Kate Broadbent was truly on form for Round 8 of Club 100’s Experience championship. After competing in the morning in Club 100’s Extreme 60, Kate was definitely warmed up, and perhaps a little tired...

Kate Broadbent was fortunate to get a last-minute seat for Team ARD in the Buckmore 12- hour endurance race. Team captain Gary Coombes popped along to see Kate practising at Buckmore on the Friday before the race, and he was impressed. He kept photographing the timing board to show the other team members Kate’s consistently fast lap times...

What a qualifier and what a race!
There was drama at Rye for the 5th round of the Super 90 Championship. In the darkness of the race (and boy, those dark nights are closing in), a front wheel fell off one kart and a track rod broke on another. Despite valiantly grabbing the broken track rod, Blaise Turnstill...

Congratulations to Kate Broadbent for coming third in the ladies 6-hour endurance race.
It was particularly tough this year. According to the organisers, the weather was the worst it had been in 22 years, and puddles had turned into lakes and lakes had turned into rivers...

Congratulations to Kate Broadbent for completing her Driver Development Programme at Buckmore Park. And more congratulations for winning her final race of the programme, a Club 100 race. And what a race it was. Racing against other drivers on the programme, Kate had her work cut out. Despite loads of lead weight on the karts, the other drivers were much lighter...

Kate Broadbent did remarkably, qualifying P8 in class and P11 on the grid with a best lap time of 50.577. This might not seem like a great lap time, but it was remarkable because the kart had a puncture.Buckmore kindly swapped the kart, but it meant starting with a cold engine and cold tyres (the kart had just been jet washed!). So, Kate dropped from P11 on the grid, to P15 after the first lap...

Congratulations to Jakub Siedacz who almost picked up a P2 in the 3-hour endurance race at Daytona Sandown.After 3 hours of driving, Jakub’s team finished P2, only to be demoted to P3 after 25 minutes of deliberations from race control and a subsequent penalty for a dangerous exit from the pits! Well done though for the P3. Consistently fast lap times, despite dmax karts littering the track, led to a multi-lap gap between P3 and the rest of the field.

Some brilliant driving from Kate Broadbent led to qualifying P1 and finishing P1 in two races.It was a full grid for the 20-minute first race. 33 karts on the track made it tight into all corners, and there was barely a lap without a yellow flag, making it tricky for Kate to get a good lap time. Despite the number of karts on the track, Kate lapped 31 drivers, and finished 39 seconds in front of the driver placed P2. The 40-minute second race...

Congratulations to Kate Broadbent for getting a place on Buckmore Park’s inaugural Driver Development Programme. The Buckmore Park Driver Development Programme is an intensive, week-long academy starting on August 19, designed for 15 individuals looking to pursue a career in motorsport. From on track coaching to detailed classroom training, the itinerary provides essential karting and motorsport skills for on and off track...

After qualifying P12 will a best lap time of 43.07 and an average speed of 40.66 mph, Kate had a brilliant first race. Kate finished race 1 in P6, battling with Tom Long (who eventually finished P10 from a 4-place penalty for gaining a place through contact). And it was Tom Long who spun Kate off the track in race 2. Kate started in P4 because of a brilliant 42.94 best lap time in race 1, but was spun off through contact on lap 18, pushing her down to P13...

Not content with a day of Club 100 racing, driver Kate Broadbent joined teammate Thomas Wong for an evening race at Rye House in Rye's twin-engine pro-karts.Qualifying P1 and P2, and finishing P1 and P2, Kate and Thomas led for the entire race, crossing the finish line with only a hundredth of a second between them.

Congratulations to Kate for winning the 2024 Lightweight Grid Series at Mitcham Teamsport. This was the first full Grid Series championship since Mitcham migrated from petrol to electric karts.