Kathryn Morris UK

We return to our multi-stranded theme of updates covering Kathryn’s public appearances in 2007.

This time the chosen event only takes in just one of the subjects that seemed to dominate the year: motorsport.

Each April the Grand Prix Of Long Beach, a weekend of motorsport headlined by the IndyCar Series, has a special Toyota Pro/Celebrity race in aid of charities supporting local children’s hospitals.  Amazingly this has been going since the 70s.  As the name suggests the household names from TV and film compete against established racers from a variety of disciplines of motorsport.  The cars they use are near-standard Toyota road cars.  The celebs are given training prior to being let loose around the California street circuit on race day.

In 2007 Kathryn was invited to take part in the race along with, amongst others, tennis superstar Martina Navratilova, Emily Proctor (CSI: Miami), Kelly Hu (Martial Law), Aisha Tyler (Friends), Robin Quivers (Howard Stern), George Lucas (Star Wars) and Kendra Wilkinson (Girls Next Door).  As you can see there were a significant number of women in the field that year.  At the end of the 8 lap race Kathryn finished in 13th (of 17) which is the same position she started in, which shows sensible consistency.

The race formed part of an episode of the freak show that was “Girls Next Door” featuring Kendra Wilkinson, which we dealt with over 2 years ago here on KM UK.

For this update we have added 19 photos to the Gallery of various sizes and quality.  The NAPA 200 event update a few weeks ago was headlined by a special photo by Eric Gilbert.  This time we are grateful Eric again, this time for allowing us to use two great photos by Earl Ma, also of Motorsport.com.  You can see the pair of images showcased above.  Sadly, Earl passed away a few weeks after the 2007 event.