Atherton to miss Club series Rd 1 due to injury

Sorry...did I say "injury"?? I meant..."surgery"

Even I used to think that motorsport, no matter what level, was glamourous in some way. Well, it can be if you're Mark Wicks or Chris Jewell, what with their turn-up-and-drive lifestyle, crepes and caviar, jet-setting in aircraft piloted by John Travolta, and so on...

For the rest of us, it just isn't. Sometimes real life gets in the way. Trying to squeeze long-needed elective surgery into a bumper calendar like 2008 with enough time for recovery was always going to be a challenge.

But at least my previously deranged left-foot now has toes that are mostly pointing in the right direction, after a Hallux Valgus correction (that's a sexy way of saying "angle-grind-bone-from-the-bunion operation") in early January, just in time for my Orthopaedic Surgeon to put a deposit on his new Audi RS4. Now my foot looks like the udder on a dead bloated purple cow.

Not quite as exciting as saying that my being on crutches is due to a spectacular testing crash during off-season.

Apologies to our loyal sponsors ARBORITEC and our team HYPER RACER but with a fantastic race calendar for 2008 courtesy of the Superkart Club there will be plenty of track time this year.