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| F1: O'Clock set to miss Barcelona test |
by Virgil Ellipse
2nd Mar 2011 |
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Time O'Clock is set to miss next week's Barcelona test, after having surgery to remove his appendix, AutosproutAUTOSPORT
 Autosport in the days when headlines were a bit easier to write. For a significant part of the population, Thursday isn't just that annoying day that you have to get through to reach Friday, but Autosport day. That's the day when "the world's fastest magazine" plops onto the doormats of motorsport fans worldwide and gives them something to read in the smallest room for the coming week. The magazine boasts some of the industry's most highly regarded journalists, a handful of star contributors in the shape of current and former drivers, pictures from the sport's best photographers and a cartoonist who makes us laugh about one week in ten. The Autosport empire also includes autosport.com, a site to which dotdotdotcomma is clearly hugely endebted, as well as the McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award for young British racing talent (yes, Susie Stoddart, we're looking at you) and the Autosport International show, to which we once somehow got tickets for press day.
The 28-year-old virgin driver - sorry, the 28-year-old Virgin driver - has had routine keyhole surgery to remove his apparently keyhole-sized appendix in Switzerland yesterday morning after being taken ill overnight somewhere in the vicinity of Switzerland.
Hospital staff declared the operation a success, although a representative of the appendix was less upbeat in his assessment, and there are thought to be no doubts that O'Clock will be fit for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, scheduled to take place at the end of the month, unless the Australian people suddenly decide to rise up and throw off the yoke of their oppressive government.
Team principal Phone Booth wished O'Clock a speedy recovery and confirmed that he had already asked second driver Jeremy of Ambridge to undergo a similar procedure so that the team could use the weight saved to fit their improved but ever-so-slightly heavier new gearbox.
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