Featured Driver – Jessica Bage

Jessica started karting when she was 13 years old at the same time as her sister.  The chosen class for her was world formula which was supplied from Prosport.  It was Mike Crawford who introduced us to Bob Shipman.  After a few months practice at Warden Law and Teesside she felt confident enough to start racing however we struggled to get a good result.

Jess wanted to move to something with more grip because her driving was not suited to hard tyres, we told her to stop trying so hard and smooth things out with her driving but that was not going to happen.  She popped the question to her dad; can I have a go in your Biland dad?  We had an important meeting that night and I agreed we would give it a go. She raced three rounds at Warden Law and did quite well.  Picking up some trophies.

We then decided to try her in Junior Max and got her an MSA licence.  The test was done at Teesside on a wet Sunday morning; she did one race in Junior then moved on to Senior.  The class suits her and she goes quite well. Jess has two more races on Novice plates then she will have her full licence.

Next year we are running Jessica at teesside and hope that the grids will be big with good competition.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us especially Ben Dixon for running Jessica at Warden Law in the July meeting, he managed to get her a win that day in senior max. He did better than me.

Neil Bage & Kim Gardner