Do a bit of this with Caterham as a young 'un and...
Caterham is planning to take its motorsport activities into the karting arena, with a new Caterham Motorsport-run karting championship for 2013 (insert your own 'kart-like handling' cliches here).
The move, announced at the Autosport show, will involve karts designed and developed by Caterham themselves and a low-cost, all-inclusive philosophy similar to the Caterham Academy one-make series for the Seven.
...you could end up like Riggers. Only better
The championship, which will be aimed at 11-14 year-olds, will provide a first rung on the Caterham motorsport ladder. This means that aspiring racers could now in theory race a Caterham all the way from karting, via the various one-make Seven-based championships, all the way up to the SP/300.R sports prototype, GP2 single-seaters and even the firm's F1 team.
"We've built a strong reputation for providing terrific value for money in motorsport through great cars and a playing field so even you could put a spirit level on it," says Caterham motorsport manager Simon Lambert.
"Now we'd like to use this wealth of knowledge and expertise in karting by establishing a cost-effective series that will combine fun, technology and great competition elements that we think are beginning to be overlooked in kart racing."
Plans for the series are still very much embryonic at the moment - with uncertainty even over whether to use two-stroke or four-stroke engines, but these should coalesce into a clear vision for the new series during the course of 2012, before the inaugural championship next year.