But the Sheffield-born star admitted she suffered from a “serious confidence crisis” after witnessing Matt Walls’ horrific crash at the Lee Valley VeloPark, which forced action to be abandoned on the weekend while several people were treated for injuries.
“Yesterday was a pretty bad taste to be honest. I just wasn’t in the right frame of mind. You see Wallsy crash like that and it really makes you think, ‘What am I doing?’,” Kenny added. “I’ve been so lucky my whole career, I’ve had one broken shoulder and one broken arm. It’s really not been that bad.
“You see something like that, I messaged Monica straight away and said, ‘I’m having a serious confidence crisis.’ I just didn’t want to be on the track. Whenever I feel like that I race badly and that’s what happened yesterday, I raced badly and didn’t get a result.
“Today I was so fired up, I kept saying to myself in the toilet, ‘You can do this!’ On the start line, I haven’t got any points so I’m way down the back of the track, and some man goes ‘You’ve got this Laura’ and I wanted to turn round and be like ‘Yes I have!’ I just felt like a completely different bike rider.”