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Aaron Slight has left New Zealand seeking to get his world superbike career back on track after brain surgery - but there\'s no word yet on when he can race again.
The expat Kiwi star is in Sydney today for tests with the surgeon who removed a blood clot from his brain two months ago.
\"We hope the results will help convince the officials to let me back on the track,\" said the Masterton-born 34-year-old.
\"They\'re being very cautious, as you would expect, and they want to see a number of tests.
\"Right now I feel ready to leap back on the bike and I\'d like to be racing within a month or so, although it has yet to be seen if I could come up to racing speeds straight away.
\"But the medical specialists who advise the international race organisers are taking a longer term view. As well as the brain tests and so on they want to see me riding the bike in a closed session, all of which takes time to set up.\"
Although admitting to some frustration in his impatience to rejoin the championship in which he has been a front-runner for seven years, Slight says he has been buoyed by huge support.
\"Fans from all around the world continue to send me goodwill messages, it\'s quite humbling.
\"And my Castrol Honda team has been terrific: they\'ve made it clear the bike is waiting for me whenever I\'m ready and they\'ve stayed in close touch the whole time I\'ve been recuperating in New Zealand.\"
Slight rejoins his UK-based crew in Australia this weekend for round two of the championship at Phillip Island where his American teammate Colin Edwards is an early favourite.
The Kiwi professional will undertake some television and promotional work and is expected to ride a couple of gentle laps to greet his fans. Forty Kiwi members of his international supporter organisation Slight Advantage are joining him at the Bass Strait circuit.
\"It\'ll be hard being there and not racing,\" commented Slight, \"especially with the new Honda going so well for Colin after I\'d waited all these years for it.
\"But perhaps a quiet ride on a roadbike might help ease a few frustrations.\"
From Australia Slight and wife Megan head to Europe, visiting their home at Monaco for the first time this year before flying to England where the racer expects more medical tests.
