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I would, but a restraining order prevents me from doing so.

I've trained the young padawan well. He loves getting involved. I bet there's nothing he'd enjoy more than having a fleet of Westfields on the drive to work through!

Scott, perhaps make it clear also that, when you renew with a different package to existing, the existing stays there showing as 'expired'. So it looks like you have 2 memberships - one expired and one current Or at least mine did!

Captain! With due diligence I think you should have looked into this one 🤨

Great to meet yourself & Adam and you have a lovely car - might ask if Adam polishes other models of Westfield as mine has never had a shine like yours 🤩😜

I know a song about that..... Take me home, country roads, to the place I belong, West Virgi...... oh I see 😳🤣

hi Marcus, I’ll take these please cheers Phil

Nor will I comment on this one.

You’ll be pleased to know that I’m not going to comment on this one.

Great to meet you and your son too Steve. Lovely car,look forward to seeing you again soon.

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@Steve Bosworth which website was the photo on? Tried searching but no luck 🙄 and did you catch the other photographer on the A623 ( I think 🤔) cheers Andy

As the person who volunteered to and was tasked with changing the membership system from essentially one level to three, I do appreciate your comments and offer to help with getting the system to work more seamlessly. Back in December in a different post, I stated that “It has not been possible to create these three packages with an easy, reliable, trouble-free method of upgrading or downgrading between different membership levels.”. What that means is that if upgrading or downgrading had been enabled (and I did beta test this through almost 50 memberships), members could switch from one level to another at any point during the membership period. Fine and dandy one might say, where’s the problem with that? You’d be right, apart from the money bit. The way it should work in theory is that those upgrading would pay the difference, and those downgrading would get a credit against their account (if any was due). What was happening was that it only worked about 10% of the time and when it did, it was anything but obvious to the member doing so during the process. Believe you me, I slaved over my keyboard to try and make it “easy, reliable and trouble-free”, but it proved impossible. Not only that, it would have generated work for unpaid Admins on a daily basis. I don’t like being defeated, but there are times when dragons cannot be tamed. I communicated all this to the committee as I was working on it, and they were fully aware of having to go down this route in order to achieve what they wanted in the way that was the least imperfect. In order to reduce any confusion as much as possible, membership renewal emails that go out 30 days in advance have this paragraph in them: ”We now offer two memberships options. If your current membership includes posted printed copies of the club magazine, you can opt for a membership package where you can download digital copies of Westfield World from the forums instead. If you’d prefer to do this in future, please wait until after your current membership period expires first! Once it does, just go to the Store tab at the top of the forums and select “WSCC Membership with Electronic Magazine” instead at annual price of £35. (Both membership levels include a posted printed copy of the annual WSCC calendar.)” Similar versions go out when the membership expires as well. To clarify from your comment: ”Having gone to my account to pay for this year, the only options provided to me by the club was paper membership at £53.00. No option for the electronic membership, so I had to go searching for how to find and choose the option.” There are essentially two membership packages, with and without printed mags. The base point from where everyone started was the package with printed magazines. When that package comes to the point of renewal, it can only renew THAT package. You can’t renew membership with electronic magazines because that’s not the package you purchased to begin with. That’s the way it needs to be viewed - they are packages that include membership as their primary benefit. For the most part, this method is working well and just over 200 memberships are now with the electronic version of the magazines. I hope this clarifies things for you and if it becomes easier to transition memberships in future, I’m sure the club will go down that route.

Sadly due to the way we have to use some third party tools to achieve this, there isn’t (to my knowledge) an easy solution.

Just my input on this year's renewal following the decision to have electronic and paper options. Having gone to my account to pay for this year, the only options provided to me by the club was paper membership at £53.00. No option for the electronic membership, so I had to go searching for how to find and choose the option. How many less tech savvy folks and perhaps occasional web users are going to see this as their only option and decide in these hard times that it's no longer worthwhile? It would be such a shame to loose members in this way. Surely there's a better way during this transition phase to make membership Renewal straightforward and a pleasure to do. More than happy to help the club become easy to do business with if it needs some focus and time to achieve.

Clutch pedal sold

Hi! I'm sorry I completely forgot to report back. In short: it was brilliant and I had a fab time. Disclaimer first: my car is an absolute weapon driven by an absolute tool. I have not done any track days before - the few laps around Castle Combe I did in an Impreza and an Elise some years ago don't really count. So I have nothing to compare my experience to. The track was smooth to me in some sections and fairly rough concrete and tarmac in others. There was a lot of loose stuff in some parts for half the day - until multiple passes cleared it. At least one car ended up with a stone chip/small crack in the windscreen. The layout had mostly quite tight turns and one fast sweeper which also switched to off-camber halfway through. This one provided a great learning opportunity for me and I committed more and more throughout the day. It's an airfield so some will miss the elevation changes (corkscrew :-)) and I am sure I'll crave it. However, having nothing to hit and less to deal with was perfect for a beginner. There were 20 people in total - sold out - and probably only ever about 10 on track at the same time. This allowed me to drive my own thing for most of the time. Plus easy passing and - ahem - ample opportunity to let faster traffic overtake. The staff were friendly, relaxed yet totally professional. The atmosphere among the punters the same. I loved it and I am hoping to return later this year. If you have any questions please just ask!

Excellent and hope it lasts. At least now you know it's a weak point and can keep an eye on it. I always check it during pre-run checks and especially before a long run, it's a good habit to get into.

Good one Steve, a great photo from Vicki here too

I have an aero screen, my teeth were chattering for a while but serves me right for not wearing enough layers! Great to meet some new westy owners. I had to make the trip as Stu promised me a bacon roll. I'd drive anywhere for one of those 😋

Parked at Quackers ready for the Peaks run out, doors refitted while I still have them for sale (might as well it was cold as!) still loving the 13’s

Many thanks Julie again for a great day out x we even got papped going back through Chatsworth.

I got mine welded up, it's back on the car at the moment. So will see how long it lasts, if it breaks again then some additional bracing will have to be added

GBS are having a car meet 5-9pm this coming Friday, 9th May. Anyone in any car is made welcome and hot food is available. https://www.greatbritishsportscars.com/my-events/friday-night-at-the-factory-may-great-british-sports-cars @Jakejmagee is going and we are a maybe, anyone else fancy it?

Beautiful pictures @aeg, please send thanks to Becky, defo worth getting up early for😴😁