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Personally speaking I'm not impressed with the MSA's handling of either the tyres situation or ROPS regulations. IMO they are creating too many financial barriers for newcomers to enter the sport and experience sprinting. If I decide to sprint my Westfield again next year I'm now potentially faced with spending at least £750 this winter to comply with the new MSA regulations IMO the MSA are loosing touch with the grass roots of the sport and making it more difficult for a newcomers to compete on a budget.

disagree ok if you live local , in perfect weather conditions .most the events I travelled to this year were 200miles plus and some over 5hours stuck in traffic journey times. try doing that every weekend and see how you enjoy it.

Date: 20th December Route: Probably start in chesterfield (Julies base) , back through derbyshire (e.g.. Ilkeston if molestrangler joins us), through Derby, down to Tamworth (so Martyn and Sue have a short drive home for once). I'll fix the route when I know who is joining the trip Purpose: Drive through the town centres, look silly, make the kids happy Dress/format. People: Santa suits: available on ebay for £5-£10.. you can use it to afterwards if you want to shatter you kids dreams when they find out you are really santa Car: fairy lights (12v leds available on ebay for less than £10), tinsel, whatever you want There will be a prize for the best dressed car. I'll find somewhere warm to eat on the way, if the heavens open or there is snow (ha, snow in December) i'll cancel it. Thick clothes (many in Julie's case) and/or heaters required

Had a call from a pal with a micro light aircraft late yesterday afternoon.. would I like a flight this evening? .. well, why not! Light was getting low when we took off from Baxby near Thirsk, so it wasn't a long flight, maybe half an hour.. no idea. I didn't have time to charge the gopro, but took a little compact camera with me. Anyone know where I went?

Just had confirmation I broke the NSSCC Bike engine road going lap record on Sunday at Croft. Videos to follow To say I'm pleased is an understatement. This time last year I wasn't sure if I would be able to race again

It does, those are loads per tyre. Ive not hunted for the advert you saw, but I had a similar issue ordering my first set of R1R's, two almost identical adverts, except price in the end all I could spot was the load rating that was different.

In the R888 sense of the word there's only one compound, (which is similar to R888 but unique to R1R's. I think you'll find the difference is due to different load ratings for the tyres. One set are are rated at 86V and one at 89V The V means the speed the load is rated at in this case about 149mph, 86 equals 530 kg per tyre and 89 is 580 kg per tyre.

Morning All, Just like to say Good luck to all competing at Angelsey this weekend- may the best man win! Another great season coming to an end - a BIG Thank you to all those involved in organising the series. What would we do without you. Cheers Simon PS Happy Birthday to Plays-Kool & Lee Smith.

Exactly what I used to do when I used my car on the road.

Quite simple, use the 15" wheels with R1R's for the road and the 13" wheels for the track, which is exactly what I do.

Everyone have a great racing weekend I know I will be missed especially by Big -Bro too far 2 come home 4 it's really hard in Oz too much sun to cope with see u all at Awards Who will be Westfield Speed Champion 2015

You made the fatal mistake of listening to the guy SO often you get these guys, they come over to look at the car, but then they start going on about their sons rally car or their friends race winning whatever. Their motivation eludes me, but usually they don't have a bl**** clue what they're talking about, from their mouths pour a mix of half truth and utter nonsense.

Well done Julie , we all knew you had the talent

Bribing him is one thing, getting anything useful out of him is totally different See you all there.

Clearly Gerry H you have never done a round trip from York to Pembrey of 590 miles to compete at a 2 day event. god knows what it would cost in fuel , accommodation, and wear and tear on the cars. How would you carry fuel for the event as most circuits do not sell fuel. Crazy idea mate!

Tosh

I agree Terry, won't be many road going cars wanting to compete in MSA run events at this rate !!!

What an absolute dogs dinner they are making of this