Leisure & Sports Accommodation (LSA)
LSA has built itself into the UK’s leading specialist provider of travel & hospitality services for Formula One professionals and fans.
Driven by a passion for delivering clients the highest possible level of service, we deliver accommodation, race tickets and hospitality packages to motorsport teams, media, sponsors and guests through the Formula One Grand Prix season. In addition, we also create bespoke events and tailored packages for MotoGP, Formula E and Goodwood.
Our small, multilingual, friendly team provides a personal and professional service, using their unrivalled knowledge and experience of Formula One to find travel and hospitality packages that cater for every budget.
LSA is the go-to travel provider for photographic agencies, the media and sponsors. Alongside this, we also utilise our long-standing expertise in Formula One to work below-the-line assisting larger agencies.
LSA is run by highly experienced travel consultants Lauren Barker & Katie O’Connor-Mitchell, who both share a lifelong passion for motorsport.
Travel Consultants
Lauren has specialised in delivering travel services to Formula One professionals and fans for nearly 20 years and joined LSA straight after she completed her degree in Travel and Tourism.
Drawing on her extensive experience of Formula One, she understands the demands of simultaneously working across multiple events across time zones and prides herself on delivering great results under pressure. Over this time, she has also built up a huge range of strong personal relationships with suppliers in key race locations to help deliver LSA clients an unforgettable experience.
Alongside travel and accommodation, Lauren also loves to develop tailor-made hospitality packages for clients drawing on her in-depth knowledge of race locations around the world. She finds nothing more rewarding than hearing feedback from LSA clients on how much they’ve enjoyed their experience.
A qualified user of SAGE accounting software, Lauren also oversees all financial operations for LSA.
Katie has been a passionate fan of Formula One and motorsports her entire life.
She first visited Silverstone aged just four and later lived with her family in Italy where her father worked for Formula One team Ferrari.
Katie joined LSA straight after completing her degree in Spanish and Italian. She loves to use her language skills and unrivalled network of contacts as LSA’s point of contact with travel partners around the world to deliver an outstanding service to LSA’s clients.
As passionate about travel as she is about motorsport, Katie has visited virtually every Formula One race location at least once and harnesses her knowledge and experience to create unforgettable packages for LSA customers.
In addition to her work at LSA, she has also worked on a freelance basis for a number of clients including Martini, LG, Pirelli, Honda & Deutsche Bank.
After studying Travel & Tourism in college, I followed with a lifelong career in the travel industry and mainly specialised in group travel and my years of experience help me enormously in my current role. I have been fortunate to travel worldwide extensively both for work and pleasure.
I joined LSA Travel almost 5 years ago and am thoroughly enjoying the world of Formula 1 and all it entails in getting our groups organised. I am enjoying building on the relationships we have with both our lovely clients and our suppliers. I have been fortunate to visit several of the race locations and it’s great to see the world of Formula 1 spring into life.
In my spare time I attempt to play bass guitar in my band.
I am Roxanne, a member of the LSA team joining in February 2025 as a travel co-ordinator. Joining fresh out of university, I was completely new to the F1 world, and it has been a blast learning about the sport and the efforts behind the scenes. I am also partial to enjoying the occasional sporting drama…
No two race weekends are the same which exactly makes the role so exciting.
Out of the office you will probably find me “co-ordinating” my own travels, planning my next holiday, or at the gym.. occasionally exercising but mostly trying to look busy.
Sophia joined LSA in February 2026 as a Motorsports Events Trainee, marking her first role in the motorsport industry. She supports the team with hotel bookings, rooming lists, and client coordination across our Formula 1 accommodation programme, as well as Formula E and the Goodwood Festival of Speed. She is enjoying learning the ropes of what it takes to get teams, guests and VIPs settled in around the world, while gaining experience across different areas of the motorsport events calendar.
Sophia is looking forward to continuing to grow with LSA as she takes on more of the booking process end to end and develops her experience across the wider motorsport industry.
She has worked in the travel industry most of her working career in accounts departments.
Debbie likes nothing more than going on holiday with her pals.
Sally was delighted to be asked to join the team in 2025 to assist Debbie with the accounting & database side of LSA.
Formerly a TV producer travelling the world making documentaries with Nigel Mansell in F1 & IndyCar & was also the Production Manager for ITV’s F1 coverage in the early 2000’s, as well as another stint in F1 working with Formula One Management looking after the TV compounds & rights-holding broadcasters. So she is very familiar with the F1 travelling circus!
She also lived in USA for a number of years producing TV shows on NBA & Major League Baseball then returned to UK & worked on many music documentaries, ATP tennis, A1GP, Goodwood motorsport events, World Rallycross, Le Mans & Olympics for Quest/Eurosport & Snooker & BTCC for ITV. Loves the smell of Castrol R and a spreadsheet.