What's all this about then?...

Well, mainly it's a diary of my first real attempts at motorsport. I've decided to try my hand at "sprinting" in 2007. Right now, I know very little about it and what I have read about how to get into it has mainly been confusing. My experience of motorsport / fooling-around-in-a-car so far has consisted of:

• Several years of karting with the very wonderful Club 100
• A number of trackdays in my Caterham 7 and its replacement, a Lotus Elise
• Six trips to the mighty Nuburgring Nordschleife (recorded here).

Along the way, I have picked up a few general motorsport rules:

• The more serious the motorsport, the more time that you spend mostly standing around doing nothing
• The more serious the motorsport, the more of a beaurocratic jungle you have to cut though to get into it. It's like a test - you have to prove that you really want to do it. However the tests have nothing to do with your driving prowess, and a lot to do with your ability to fill in forms
• There's no such thing as cheap motorsport - "cheap" is an entirely relative term...

I'm going to use this blog as a record of my efforts, firstly to understand what I need to do just to have a go and, secondly, to record my "achievements" once I actually start to compete.