BMW Breast Cancer Charity and Celebrity Challenge (Au)

Kate Ceberano Tunes Up For Challenge

Popular
singer, songwriter and actor Kate Ceberano is ‘tuning up’ for different
reasons this week as she lines up for not only this year’s BMW
Celebrity Challenge, but also the Breast Cancer Network of Australia,
which is the No 1 charity for the 2006 FORMULA 1™ Foster’s Australian
Grand Prix.

It
is the first time the renowned singer has been behind the wheel of a
racing machine, but she is keen to face the challenge and determined
not to come last in the event.

Kate
is also fully aware of the challenges facing women with breast cancer
and is pleased to be the official representative of the Breast Cancer
Network of Australia (BCNA).

“Breast
cancer can hit any family and it has certainly impacted mine. What I
really like about the Breast Cancer Network is that they are all about
the woman and her family right now. Support during a life changing
cancer diagnosis is just so important and they certainly provide that
through the My Journey Kit.”

No
stranger to crowds, having performed before 40 million viewers on one
occasion, Kate will be lining up in the dynamic BMW 1 Series with 25
other celebrities to again perform before national and worldwide TV
audiences.

It
will be a busy time for Kate who will launch her new album Kate
Ceberano Live with The West Australian Symphony Orchestra due out on
April 7.

Among
the other celebrities in the race are triple Australian superbike
champion Shawn Giles, US motocross champion and husband of pop star
Pink, Carey Hart, champion jockey Damien Oliver, AFL all-time great
Alastair Lynch, Channel 9 TV personalities, Steve Jacobs and Ed
Phillips, along with Cleo Bachelor of the Year Ryan Phelan, three of
the four Wiggles –Murray Cook (Red), Jeff Fatt (Purple) and Anthony
Field (Blue), and Captain Feathersword, FOX footy presenter Tiffany
Cherry, Olympian and Commonwealth Games stars Giaan Rooney and Nikki
Hudson, world big wave surfer Ross Clarke-Jones and New Zealand born
adventurer and host of The Amazing Race Phil Keoghan.

All
the celebrities are undergoing a week of intensive driver training this
week at Sandown raceway before they are ‘let loose’ on the Albert Park
circuit by CAMS officials and International racing car champion Geoff
Brabham, who leads the team of BMW Celebrity Challenge Driver Trainers.