Longland Family Racing

Yesterday, March 19th 2023, 1 year and 9 days since Ben finished chemotherapy, a week and 2 days since receiving another clean bill of health, we joined for their walk down at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast.

We joined fellow lymphoma warriors, families, friends, lymphoma nurses etc to walk a 4 stretch and raise funds and awareness for lymphoma based cancers.

It was an incredible day, a day filled with stories, conversations, laughter and updates on the absolutely critical work that Lymphoma Australia is doing and the strides they are making to support the Lymphoma community.

Words cannot describe what this organisation and individuals all touched by lymphoma mean to us not only as a racing team but on a personal level too. We cannot wait to continue supporting and raising awareness for a cause so near and dear to us 💚

- Benjamin & Jessica

Welcome to our first event of 2023!

Lymphoma Australia is hosting its annual Legs Out For Lymphoma Walk on the Gold Coast this Sunday! We are going to be there getting our legs out and raising awareness for this incredible organisation!

If you’d like to join our team or even donate whatever you can, the link is in our stories and in our bio!

Let’s support our lymphoma warriors and the incredible people behind Lymphoma Australia!

On December 22nd Longland Family Racing had to say a heart shattering goodbye to our team mascot and stripey best friend, Oliver.

He will forever remain a part of everything we do and we will always remember our sweet boy.

Ben and I are heartbroken. It was too soon but our boy loved hard and loved big. He fixed broken hearts and created laughter and joy all around him.

We love you, Ollie 💕

Merry Christmas everyone!

We hope you’ve all had a beautiful day with your loved ones 🎄

Race 2 saw us get a DNF due to our starter motor finally giving up the ghost on us. Cameron our mechanic and Ben have worked hard to get a new starter motor into the kart so we will be back on track tomorrow morning for race 3!

Race 1 saw us finish second in class which is always a good result!

Ben felt the kart was running smooth, tyre pressures were on point and our crew is excited to see what comes from the weekend!!

Qualifying is done and dusted and we’re getting ready to head out for race 1 of our final race weekend for 2022!

We replaced a valve stem on the front left tyre and gave our fuel system a once over but we are now ready to get on track and have some fun!!

Here we go….

Tonight Ben finally got to meet one of our fellow Racing With Autism Australia racers, Daniel and his dad David! It’s been a long awaited meeting and every second of it is deeply cherished. We love when we get to meet fellow RWAA members and create memories with them!

Daniel and David, thank you for your hospitality and for spending an evening with Ben while he’s in Sydney for work. I can’t wait until I can come down and meet you both too.

- Jess

Tonight the most amazing thing happened! Benjamin proposed to our team manager Jessica. Massive thanks to the beautiful Jade from the most incredible moment of my life was captured on film.

Here’s to the next chapter 💍💕

We are incredibly thankful to have been a part of todays morning tea and even more thankful to everyone who came and participated and helped to raise funds for Lymphoma Australia.

Here’s hoping we can see this event return next September on a bigger scale!!