You wait ages for one date and then 3 come along all at once.

My IVA is now confirmed for 26th November – later than hoped for but, to be honest, not too much of a surprise. May just about get to drive the car by December.

I’ve had it confirmed that I’m in Group 1 of the Academy next year (obviously the best group ;)).

The Academy seminar day, where we get to learn all about the 2013 Academy, ask questions, meet our competitors and the Caterham Motorsports team, is scheduled for the 24th November. Really looking forward to meeting all the people I’ll be racing against.

Finally, we’ve also had our ARDS day confirmed – where we gain our racing licence (hopefully!) – Group 1 is on 13th Feb and Group 2 is on 20th Feb.

A bit like the manual, as I got further towards completion, my blog posts got more and more brief and vague… I’ve gone back through the posts from day 16 onwards and have added in some minor updates to the content. These have been highlighted so you don’t have to read the whole lot again!

The wait continues for my IVA date. Things are moving, just very slowly. I called VOSA to chase things today and that seemed to kick things into action as Caterham received a call to say that they could now book a slot.

It doesn’t give you any confidence when you have to ring and chase things. I now have no idea whether if I’d rung earlier in the week, things would have moved sooner.

I am being told that Caterham will book my date tomorrow and that the latest information is that the dates being issued are now at the end of November… arghhhh. Another whole month! So frustrating.