POV Narrator:

After the marriage between Laura and Bernadette the year 1993 starts to show up, this time Laura was determined, she trained since the end of the 1992 season until the beginning of this season, intensely, she was in the peak of magic power and physical strength, she had trained until the limits of her body, she could fly at even higher speeds than before, able to hold a whole race in a race broom speed, that without exhausting, she was focusing a lot in this part of holding and having enough magic for all the laps in a race, and she had enough and a little more. Laura really was with everything to become champion that season would be perfect, but they had things that would make it difficult, different of the previous year that the runner had 7 chances to use the manual mode of the broom in a race in case of breakage and finish the same, this time they were diminished for only 5 times and that would make the season even more difficult. Since in 1992 Laura suffered 6 breaks in races that she had to finish manually, this would leave her even further behind if the LEAF team didn't give her a broom capable of making her win races, things were complicated even for McLaren. They were less powerful but reliable orbs, but they were also easy to adjust, and if they got more powerful, the duration and reliability would decrease a lot, to the point of not being able to last a whole race without breaking, it was really complicated to find the best adjustment for the broom. With the Cavendish family things were going on, Daryl taking care of his daughters, occasionally taking them to Paul to have a look and she did this especially on race days to get Lucy to come back with her sabotage scheme.

Sunday, March 7, 1993, Australia

Unlike the other seasons when the start was in Brazil, this one was a little different with a start in Australia, Laura as usual got the Pole Position, it was the 33rd consecutive for McLaren, Lucy Watson came strong and so she qualified behind the Irish girl, that weekend Daryl hadn't got Paul's attention to take care of his daughters and he had to stay in Scotland taking care of the twins, With this it was a quiet race for Laura who managed to win the first race of the year in a race that only 6 runners were left after a heavy summer rain was falling over Adelaide, the race even so was not aborted and as she didn't need to demand much from the magic orb, the redhead managed to keep quietly the broom until the end of the race winning it and leaving Lucy in second position who was indignant that Cavendish didn't come to give the money for the sabotages.

Sunday March 21, 1993, Japan

This season it seemed that the races were reversed in order, this time the race would be in Japan and another one that didn't have Daryl's involvement, both because it was too far away and because she couldn't convince Paul to look at her daughters again. He was always giving the same excuses. In this race, Laura got the 34th pole position and the second victory in the season, this time leading the championship with 4 points ahead of Watson, who finished the race in the second position. It was another race that didn't force the magic orb to the point of making it more powerful for the competition, it was just a race in a very tight track in which McLaren was getting a good performance with the LEAF's broom that was very aerodynamic with a good downforce in curves.

Sunday, April 4, 1993, Portugal

For the first time since 1990, when Laura McLaren was not in the World Broom Racing Championship, someone took the Pole Position from her, a record has just been set of 34 pole positions in a row, something that is going to be impossible to break if it is not McLaren herself making this record and the reason was very simple, the track in Portugal was a high speed one and with that she was a little bit behind with only 100 thousandths in relation to Lucy Watson. Besides also being the race in which Daryl showed up at the hotel to help Lucy with the sabotages, then there was another concern around Laura that was the broom sabotage that was about to happen to the poor thing. And in the race it was very evident how the speed increased a little in Laura's broom and with that in lap 12 she had to abandon the race for mechanical problems in the magic orb and with that Lucy Watson tasted a victory staying on top with 26 points to 20 in relation to McLaren that had lost that race, but despite the frustration of the race and all the suspicion that someone tampered with the adjustment of the broom, she just said that she still had a whole season to race and try to win. Not only did Alanna Russeau also tie the Irishwoman in points in the race after a beautiful second place finish in the race, but the Scuderia Carlucci brooms were more superior than ever.

Sunday, April 11, 1993, Italy

The Italian GP of 1993, if the Portuguese GP was already a fast circuit that demanded a lot from the broom, it wouldn't be different in the Maria Carlucci Circuit where they had long straights and curves of high speed, that was what affected Laura a lot in the classification, she was 6 tenths of second behind the Pole Position Alanna Russeau and 1 tenth behind Lucy Watson, but it was another weekend with the presence of Daryl in the hotel, she gave more money to the Australian and again in the race Laura noticed a slight increase of power in the broom and when she was seeing she was abandoning again the race for mechanical problems in the broom. Alanna opened 8 points in relation to Laura and Lucy opened 16 points in front of Watson showing that the season was intense and the dispute was very close. It was no longer the Irish girl who was threatening the position of the Australian, but it was the French teammate with the "Super Carlucci from another galaxy" as Laura pointed out in an interview, still very frustrated that the adjustment of the broom was not well done, that someone messed with her adjustment without asking. She even demanded that cameras be placed to better analyze this situation.

Sunday, April 18, 1993, Belgium

It was another circuit full of straights that demanded a lot from the broom, another race that the Pole Position was not Laura's getting behind the two Carlucci's brooms and almost being left to the fourth position behind Emma Mansell that was coming with a strong adjustment in Victoria's broom that was perfectly adjusted for a high speed race. Another race with the presence of Daryl and Lucy's sabotages, this time smarter with the presence of cameras, they worked out a way around it and used disguises while sabotaging it and as no one saw anything before the race, it was likely that McLaren would start with the normal setup as there would be no time to readjust. The race started, 10 laps later and Laura's broom was smoking, but McLaren, after a wonderful start that put her in the lead of the race, went to the manual mode of the broom for the rest of the laps on a very long track, spending 1 of the 5 chances she had to use this mode in the season and so she ends the race with a victory, being able to breathe easier, even more because Emma Mansell was very surgical and strategic to the point of getting out in front of the two Carlucci's that didn't have a good weekend. That was the relief and redemption for Laura, who had been in a very frustrating season, climbing to 30 points. Well behind Lucy Watson's 46 points and Alanna Russeau's 32 points, but it was a relief for the Irish girl that didn't want to go down in the championship classification.

Sunday, May 9, 1993, Sweden

The Swedish track was another one that demanded a lot of speed and also duration of the broom and one more weekend with the participation of Daryl in giving money to Lucy to send someone to sabotage the broom of McLaren and that even it seemed that it was an excessive complaint of the redhead putting the excuse in someone sabotaging the broom, but it was real, as she couldn't count more with the team she decided to start the investigation by her own and soon she made sure to hire Rosemary for that after the Salem GP. At the weekend there was another race without pole position for Laura, what was very unusual, a season where Laura didn't have more starts in the front, it was already the sixth race of the year and Laura McLaren didn't have more pole positions, this time it was Emma Mansell. In the race, one more sabotage made with success and Laura didn't want to use one more of her chances of manual control of the broom, so who won was the English Emma and with luck Watson abandoned the race and so who took advantage of it was Alanna that went up to 40 points, placing even more in the table in relation to her team mate. Even so, Laura continued with her mistrust about the team and said clearly that after the Salem GP she would shoot in the leadership, whatever the cost, she would fight until the end of the season and show that she still had everything.

Sunday, May 30, 1993, United States

The Salem GP needs no presentations, it is the race where only the best ones win and that was exactly what Laura showed, she got the 35th Pole Position in her career and one more victory for her curriculum, taking advantage even more of the points that are given more in the race realized in American soil, raising this way for 45 points, but still behind the 54 points of Lucy Watson that had the tremendous advantage still in relation to the Irish, in spite of being slower, she still guaranteed herself in the Salem GP and she had lowered a lot the lap time to less than 7 minutes, but still very behind the laps of 6:15 that Laura was doing and lowered each lap taken at Salem by fractions of a second.

After the Salem GP there is always a stop for two months until August when the races come back for good, with this some things happened, like the birth of Phoebe Morris on June 17, 1993, daughter of Rosemary and Harry, who soon after the birth of their daughter decided to get married, it was a somewhat unexpected birth, since she was born somewhat premature, Rose was pregnant since before Laura's wedding without realizing it, having her daughter born almost 7 months after a troubled birth in which the girl almost doesn't survive, the two are relieved when little Phoebe resists and manages to survive after all the investment and love given by the couple that didn't expect the little one to be born so soon.

Sunday, August 1, 1993, England

A race with a face that the weather was going to close and rain a lot, a weekend that everything was going well, this time Daryl wasn't to pay one more sabotage to Lucy, what was ironic since England was a few hours away from the Cavendish family's residence, but even so she didn't go for suspecting that Laura would be investigating. In the weekend Laura came back to the form with another pole position, showing that it wasn't only in Salem that her strong point was coming, but in the race it happened an unexpected thing and Laura started badly with a defect in the activation of the magic orb falling to the sixth position, only that this didn't intimidate the Irish girl a little bit, it was a race in rainy weather, she showed how she was a great champion and she made the "magic lap" passing the five runners in that lap in beautiful overtaking, The rest of the race was Laura carrying the LEAF team on her back, showing that she was in full form, as it was rainy it was perfect for the weaker broom and with that she managed to carry on until the end beautifully with even the right to a lap over Lucy, with little by little this difference giving a diminished, staying 55 to 62, it was already 7 points in relation to the 9 of the last race.

Sunday, August 15, 1993, Argentina

The coldest GP of the year so far, in the middle of the Argentinean winter, the air temperatures were very close to 0 that day, barely reaching double digits during the whole race weekend. It was a mixed track between speed and more technical curves, Laura got another pole position and it was another race without Lucy sabotaging the team, since Daryl didn't want to travel to South America because it was too far away. The race was well fought, Laura had a slow straight and good cornering broom, every now and then Alanna Russeau would overtake her, but the Irish passed her back and she still had Lucy Watson, the three competing for the championship. The Frenchwoman was still ahead of the championship in relation to the redhead, after some good laps and a very disputed race, Laura ended up in the second position and still behind in the championship in relation to Lucy, but the difference decreased in relation to the championship classification. Lucy was leading with 68 points, right behind came Alanna with 66 points and then Laura with 63 points. Little by little that championship was getting even more disputed and closer between each of the racers.

Sunday, August 29, 1993, Germany

Another race that demanded a lot of speed and also had the presence of Daryl meddling in the middle, but Laura was confident, even if she had some sabotage she would use one of her chances to finish the race with the broom in manual mode. Who qualified in Pole Position was Alanna Russeau, the race started intense, Laura soon noticed that the broom was more powerful and so she just sketched a smile waiting for the moment, that came in the lap 17 where she activates the manual mode of the broom, until then she was leading the race and with this she starts to give a shot in front. Another race also for which Lucy finished in second position and had the presence of Rosemary's investigations around the sabotages, which she was coming to the conclusion that really someone appeared to sabotage the McLaren broom. In the championship standings Laura was climbing further up 73 points against Lucy's 76 and Alanna Russeau's 74. Slowly McLaren was getting closer to Watson and was only one point behind Carlucci's other runner, proving extremely fast and capable of winning that championship with an extremely inferior broom. In comparison teammate Hayley Dennis had only 9 points all season, the best result being a fourth place finish.

Sunday, September 12, 1993, Ireland

It was Laura's local race, no one could beat her in Ireland, she did the lap of perfection using the broom in a perfect configuration and as Daryl didn't want to create suspicion on the team, so she didn't go to pay Lucy to perform such sabotage, leaving a free race for Laura who managed to win perfectly, there was no way she could beat McLaren in Ireland even more because the track favored LEAF's broom a lot. The magic orb was not forced at the limit and so McLaren could breathe well, showing all the skill and control of the broom, getting a spectacular victory that would put her close to Lucy Watson in the championship. In the standings the Australian was still ahead with 84 points, but the Irish rider had 83 points, passing Alanna who had only 78 after a fourth place in the race. The championship this time was separated with only 6 points between the top three and one between Laura and Lucy. The race was getting tighter and tighter.

Sunday, September 19, 1993, France

Lucy Watson was beginning to fear that Laura would get closer to the championship, she was winning race after race and there were only 5 races to go to the end of the season, and there are 3 chances to use the broom in manual mode, she knew that sabotaging in a mechanical way was not an option, In that weekend Daryl even gave her the money to do a sabotage in the broom of the McLaren, but it was very complicated, there was an investigation suspicion to the Australian girl that noticed how Laura was with her eyes wide open, so she decides to take another measure, a measure that would damage even more the Irish girl. In the classification Laura got another Pole Position, it was already the number 40 of McLaren, a record only reached by the fastest drivers of the history. In the race everything was happening normally with the rainy weather, Laura was running in the leadership comfortably, until the moment that she was giving lap in a retardatory runner the same one loses the control and with that she makes the redhead have a contact with her and suffer an accident, It was all a very well planned plan by Lucy and the rainy weather for the Irish girl was just a racing accident, but it frustrated her a lot since it was the final stretch of the championship, it was all or nothing to win that season. In the standings Laura went down to third place by one point. Lucy was leading with 94 points against Alanna's 84 and Laura's 83, that was the race that had everything to define the championship, but McLaren didn't give up hope.

Sunday, October 3, 1993, Spain

The 1993 Spanish GP, the thirteenth race of the year, a short track with long straights, but they were not so long as to put Laura in disadvantage, even so she didn't get the Pole Position and she stayed in the third position behind the Scuderia Carlucci's brooms. It was another race that Daryl paid for Lucy Sabotage, she then decides that it was better to fall out of the race risking herself and taking Laura out of the race as she is passing, at the start Laura was constantly blocked by Watson, she tried everything, but she didn't open passage for anything, who took advantage of that was Emma Mansell that passed the three runners ahead and she started to lead, On lap 25 Lucy tried to close the race and had contact with Laura's broom on the first corner, she got the worst and crashed, falling out of the race and McLaren got the broom's wing damaged, having to repair it, this repair made her fall to the sixth position, but a beautiful Irish recovery race made her climb quickly and she almost won because the race didn't have one more lap, finishing in the second position. The winner was Emma Mansell. With that the standings voted to be close. That crash gave some good discussions between Laura and Lucy, she only apologized and said that it was an attempt of defense of positions, with that she was punished to start 5 positions behind in the grid. Laura went up again to the second position. Lucy remained the leader with 94 points, Laura with 91 and Alanna with 90 points.

Sunday, October 17, 1993, Scotland

Fourteenth race of the year, it was another attempt by Daryl to pay Lucy to sabotage Laura's race and since he didn't want to get tainted because of the crashes, he had to go back to sabotaging the way he always did by mechanically changing the broom. In the qualifying Laura got the 41st Pole Position of her career. But she had another porem, Laura was with all the remaining chances of manual control of the broom and then during the race when the broom started to give problems in the lap 49 was when she activated the manual mode and she flew for the whole track in one more victory, this time approaching even more in the championship punctuation. This time the top two places were up to over 100 points. Lucy had 102 points against Laura's 101 and Alanna's 94, which was much further behind and practically out of the championship unless Lucy and Laura dropped out in the next two races. The two brought the score even closer to a difference of only two points. All Laura needed to do was win the last two races, which was in the hands of McLaren who had both chances to use the broom in manual mode.

Sunday, October 31, 1993, Canada

If the race in Argentina was cold the one in Canada was snowing, which was a new and more dangerous factor for broom races, something that would change and put more action into the races, with all the time temperatures below freezing, never before has an event happened at that time of year in that part of the world. Qualifying saw the 42nd Pole Position of Laura, who controlled the broom wonderfully well, with Carlucci's two brooms just behind. This weekend was without Daryl, but Lucy was determined to do something about it, and the snowy weather made it easy for her to make everything work in her favor. At the start of the race she was intentionally clumsy and she threw the broom in the runners ahead, which was her team mate and McLaren, so the three of them hit each other and went out of the track, but Lucy managed to get out with little damage to the broom, Laura and Alanna had a tragic end of the race, in that same race Lucy finished in the fifth position going up to 104 points, against Laura's 101 points, what would make the dispute to be determined in Brazil.

Sunday, November 14, 1993, Brazil

This was one of the most disputed championships in the history of the World Broom Racing Championship, the grand final, the Brazilian GP in 1993, a race with rainy weather that would count a lot to determine the winner, the whole weekend was marked by rain and cold, at least for the locals who didn't expect such low temperatures, It was a very rainy day, practically flooding the track, the dispute was by a thread, it didn't have the presence of Daryl paying the sabotages, since it was the last race and all Lucy needed to do was just take the broom until the end, even if Laura won, she just needed a second position. Laura again got the pole position, it was the 43rd of her career and in the race the things were very tense, Laura did what she had to do, she won the race, she did pretty, she gave what she had to give on top of the broom, she even used the manual mode of the broom in the end of the race to try to consecrate more this victory. But Lucy also did the job she had to do and finished in second place and became the champion of the World Broom Racing Championship in the 1993 season, winning by just a single point. Alanna Russeau had nothing to do, even if she won with the two front runners dropping out she would at most be tied with Lucy and the championship would go to Watson who won more races and had been leading the championship longer than Russeau. That was a season that in the end frustrated Laura a lot, as she tried her best to win with a slightly inferior broom, trying everything to beat the "Super Carlucci from another galaxy", but even so this was giving a huge name to the racer that was being admired by other teams. Even more, 1994 would be the last year of her LEAF contract, and McLaren would be rid of a team that didn't give her a good enough broom.

Championship standings:

1st: Lucy Watson (61) (AUS) (Carlucci) 112 points (Champion)

2nd: Laura McLaren (72) (IRE) (LEAF) 111 points

3rd: Alanna Russeau (28) (FRA) (Carlucci) 100 points

With this, Lucy became four times champion of the World Broom Racing Championship, although the last two championships were won in a controversial way, Laura didn't notice much in 1992, but in 1993 the sabotages were much clearer, her teammate's broom that lasted the whole race with the same magic orb, while hers was purposely adjusted to make it get more power and last less in the race. McLaren didn't mince words, she knew there was something strange, even more with the two crashes she suffered at the hands of Lucy in Spain and Canada, where they cost her valuable points that could have won her the championship. Even with more wins than Lucy, McLaren ended up losing due to constant sabotage. After the GP she went to meet Rosemary to talk about what was going on and to draw their conclusions.

POV Laura:

Shit! Another championship lost, the worst thing is that I gave my blood this season, everyone saw how I raced with a slightly inferior broom and still managed to finish some races... Forcing the broom because I abandoned at least five times this year, not counting the other four possible abandonments that saved me was my training, otherwise I would have only finished about six races... But what the hell... I lost shamefully this year... And Leaf has shit on the team these last few years since I became champion, it seems that they have stopped investing in the team, thinking that I will carry this shit on my back. I soon arrive at the hotel where Rose and Bern were waiting for me and both hug me, they noticed a little of my frustration, I lost a championship so valuable.

- Don't be like that, love, you still have more chances... This is only your third season, there will still be many more to give you a championship - says my cabbage comforting me until Rose shows me some envelopes.

- I managed to collect good information in this season of yours Laura, it seems that they are really sabotaging you, I will still continue to investigate and try to find out the faces of the people that appeared in the pits of your team, but the heat captures confirm your suspicion, it seems that in certain races always someone appears to sabotage your broom, I was noticing this since you came here, in Scotland I noticed that there was someone messing around there and I got a little picture of the face of this person - She said showing the picture of the person that was a mechanic I'm sure, I know the face of the racers.

- She is a mechanic, you can be sure, but I don't know which team, she must have been hired by someone to do this - I tell Rose who nods in agreement.

- Yes, it really was someone who hired her, I noticed that these days someone appears dressed in disguise, she tries everything to hide her face and goes to call one of the mechanics in different boxes, this same person gives her a part in cash and pays her to do the dirty work, I will try to investigate this further, but it is not one of your team, it is someone from the outside who enters your team's box to sabotage you... I have a very strong suspicion about Lucy Watson. You told me that she has some rivalry with you, well that's not surprising - Rose said to me.

- So did you ever find out anything about her? - I ask Rose.

- I haven't gotten to Lucy Watson yet, but I will start investigating her steps when the next season starts, you can be sure, when we gather enough evidence we will be able to take out this girl who has been sabotaging you, my intuition strongly tells me it's her, Alanna Russeau who also competed in the championship with you is very friendly and I notice the friendship of the two of you, Lucy Watson never sympathized the times she abandoned or when she got on the podium - Rose said to me which gives me a huge relief.

- One would imagine, this Lucy Watson is no good, well then, let's go home, I don't even know if I'm going to keep running the way I was this year... Damn... I gave everything so that in the end this championship would fall in Lucy Watson's lap... This sport is really shitty... I knew it would be pure politics and sabotage and the worst thing is that it must be easy to sabotage someone else's broom if it is like this.

- Are you really going to lower your head? Are you going to let yourself be led by other people? Are you really going to let them control you? Will you give Lucy Watson everything she wants? Love don't give up, you are only in your third year of WBRC, no one knows what is coming in the following seasons, give it your all, come on Laura McLaren, aren't you the most fucked up racer of them all? So go for it, break all the records! Even this year you still won the most races and had the most pole positions, I don't know about you, but that just shows your talent, and look at the LEAF broom? Elizabeth barely gives you a decent broom and you get milk of stone from her! Baby you can do it! I believe in you! Don't give up Laura McLaren! Fuck Lucy Watson! She'll fall soon enough, be sure of that - said my Bern, giving me confidence, and I gave her a little smile.

POV Narrator:

From there Laura, Bernadette and Rosemary go back to Scotland, where after a frustrating end to a season, McLaren decides to just cool her head and think if it was really worth it to keep pushing so hard, after all she had lost by only one point, but on the other hand she was determined to win in 1994, she wanted to show everyone how she was the most talented witch on a broomstick, besides that this would be the last year in a team that was evidently wearing the Irish woman down psychologically.

See you, sabotage witches...