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Good day out at Stoneleigh yesterday. Well done to all involved, the stand and car presentation was impressive. Very good turn out of members cars as well. Thanks for the hospitality. Glad to see and hear Scotts car running last night, well done all involved.

A fantastic effort, a great result, and as usual, the best club put on the best event - my grateful thanks as the outgoing chairman to the Stoneleigh organising team and all our volunteers for the best show I have ever attended - well done to you all!

Huge thanks to everyone who donned a blue tee and got on with the weekend. It was as slick as I've ever seen it and of course very impressive from all angles as ever. Special mention to this year's organising team @Trevturtle, @marcusb and @Stuart Faulkner - Shows & Events Coordinator for putting on a great show and organising all the show kit. You made it look easy, I know it isn't - thank you.

As has already been said a great show and fantastic effort by all involved. We don't get enough opportunities to all get together and meet friends old and new ! The team also worked hard in hall 2 drumming up not just potential new speed series entrants but new club members as well ! Free food and drink for volunteers was a perfect thank you, thank you and I apologise if I had more than my fair share on Saturday night Look forward to doing it all again next year

Great weekend. Got home at 7o'clock tonight, tent hung out to dry and a shower for me to warm my feet after walking around all day in wet trainers. Can't wait to get into a comfy bed and get a good nights sleep and not be woken up with the Chinese water torture I had last night in my tent. Would I do it all again next year? You bet I would. When is it? And to all those who didn't come, come next year and lets get 200 cars on the pitch.

4 Westfields in top 5 times on both Saturday and Sunday and only John Graham's Gould beat us !!!!!

Everything went very smooth for the North West convoy down to Stoneleigh..no hiccups the slow down at Sandbach and drive throughs at Stafford and Hilton Park went to plan, I think we had about 18 cars this year ?and I don't think we lost anybody en route , 1 small hard shoulder incident Giles pulled off to remove a Pampers bag stuck over his grill and slipped and finished up on his A*** just wish I could of got a photo.(new nickname Huggie) Thanks to Paul Gibney for taking the lead. Steve

I think the Factory, the drift cars and our club do a great job all round and there was public interest in Scott's car upgrade. So Westfield is fine. I think the parts people are suffering from eBay inevitably but there are more three things that need fixing. They are the other manufacturers, the pricing (probably) and the format of the show generally - it needs an upgrade IMO. I had a great time though - got some bits I wanted and really enjoyed catching up with old mates (oh yes and the beer and barbeque too). Big thanks to everyone who worked so hard at getting it to happen!

You haven't wasted any time reverting to Captain, Captain. Huge thanks for all you did for our club, Scott

just a bit of fun but spotted this one when editing the photos

I knew there was a better one of you somewhere Andy

no there's much worse ones of you

Really enjoyed my first visit to the event as a Westfield owner. Loads of ideas to improve my car and 'you lot' seem a friendly bunch! Look forward to getting involved.

After much sole searching and meeting good friends and new friends at Stoneleigh and building and owning the car for so long I have decided to keep the Westfield. Thanks everyone Ron

Give it time

I had a fantastic three days as a volunteer. Muchly Muchly TA ALL, especially main organisers! Westfields, Great food, beer and people - what more could one want! Great Marquee as usual, with open sides making it more inviting and accesable. The video/photo show a great new touch. Scott leaving with a working engine. An 'Upgrade' would work as a regular feature imo. I especially feel the Speed Series presence was best I've ever seen and far more inviting to potential newbies, so we'll done @John Williams - WSCC Competition Secretary & SS team.

And so it begins...

Well on Sunday the cars never stood still as demand was high for rides.

It get's better every year. Many thanks to all who made it such a success. Free food, free beer and I even got offered two breakfasts from you great foik @Trevturtle Dry journey there on Sun and back home on Mon! I've even won a free years membership of the club!

I echo Andy's thoughts above. It was a great show this year, the weather on Sunday certainly helped. Always good to catch up with familiar faces, and hope to see some of them at Blyton in July.

Very quiet today, and a very poor turnout of Caterhams. Great work by the WSCC again though - well done all

Yes great showing and effort by all of the WSCC crew as usual. Stand out for me this year were.. Dave and Mike working solidly on the Chairman's car The videos in the hall showing speed series runs always seem to have a little crowd watching and Martin, Graham, Panda and others seemed to be talking to lots of new possible competitors. Looked like a huge effort again from Cleggy and his team to put on a great choice of clothing. Seems to be more choice each year. The green FW400 looked lovely I thought that the show itself was quieter than usual. A few regulars such as Hamilton classic I didn't see. Nothing stood out as new other than the awful boxster / 911 creations and I see a new name was continuing the Dax Rush. I did like the motorised shed outside though ;-) I do always spend more time ogling over the Cobras than I should .... one year I may be tempted. David

TEL's TALES 04/17 Ty Croes, Angelsey weekend 29th/30th April 2017 This event was run by MG car club (NW) with 2 laps of the National circuit on Saturday and 1 lap of the International on Sunday. The weather for all 9 Westfield drivers was very windy and very cold but despite the weather forecast it did not rain apart from a few early showers on Saturday morning during practice.. The big bonus was that it was a medium sized entry, well run and we got loads of runs particularly on Sunday. From a personal perspective I was happy to be back in action as I had clutch failure and then the big ends went at start of April so I have had almost zero seat time and not really scored any points. I have installed another blade engine and used the honda HRC kit ECU and Powercommander V, so had to get it on the rolling road again. I do hate watching as the engine is mapped and has it neck rung at in excess of 14000rpm and watching the oil pressure , water temp, etc is very traumatic. Happily all went well and it produced some reasonable figures. I have also had to work with Steve changing his gearbox after an expensive rebuild due to the cost of quaife gears. Thanks to Graham Millar for a brilliant service and quick turnround. Saturday Some of our southern softie drivers were sharing a garage and quite early on Saturday they were working on changing John Loudon’s alternator as it failed during the start of practice which he missed (lucky he had a spare and had previously driven the circuit so knew where the corners were). I got to the noise test only to find out that my tacho was not reading the correct revs so I just blagged it and got through. It was clear that apart from the Westfield classes there would be some “personal battles” going on and some quick times were expected. In the timed runs I was one of the first to have problems as in T1my flatshifter decided to give up the ghost and have me missing gear shifts so I was not amused and disconnected it for the weekend….now I had to learn how to change gear using the clutch. Steve was having his usual battle with Mick Skidmore who started to lose oil from his gearbox. Steve Carpenter and Roz spent ages helping a guy called Chris in his ailing Westfield which appeared to have sensor or wiring problems but they kept it going all weekend using a spare battery Steve had. As the day went on it became clear that some of the target times were going to be very difficult to achieve ( class G ??) We had one practice of 2 laps and the track was cold with limited grip. During the day things got a little better but it was hard to go faster. Dave Cleaver in class H on slicks, chased by John Hoyle set the pace and did a 106.65secs against a target of 106.37secs. John Hoyle scored high again as he beat the class F target with 109.77secs on his last run. John Loudon beat me in class G with a good drive and 110.26secs against a very hard target of 107.94secs. Steve Everall was wearing odd shoes on each foot for some reason. I thought it was some new speed enhancing technique but it was because he was having trouble with a painful left foot!. The evening was great as we all ate together in the bar and had a good craic until we were thrown out. Sunday Mark Bishop was out first still running in a true road going class and finding the targets hard but had a smile on his face all weekend. Dave Cleaver was constantly adjusting his car geometry and I joined in, using the flat garage floor, to adjust my nearside front camber. John Loudon was convinced that he needed wider front tyres as his new slicks were getting some severe abuse on the fast International layout and my new slicks were not looking much better. The times were not consistently available to drivers as they finished, so a few of managed to get onto the TSL website for live timings. Fastest 3 in practice were Dave Cleaver 87.15secs, John Hoyle ( on ZZR tyres) 88.73secs and me on 90.33 secs. At the end of T1 John Hoyle had problems with the clutch cable needing adjustment and I had an exhaust manifold pipe fracture almost in half. Once again the Westfield “crew” sprung into action and with an old diet coke can, some jubilee clips, snips and some gloves to stop hands being burnt a repair was effected and I have to thank all those who helped including Dave Cleaver, Steve Carpenter, Roz Kennett, Mick Skidmoe etc . I hardly got involved and the repair was great. In the end we had 5 timed runs and set some good times. Dave Cleaver was once again fastest with 85.77secs and beating target. John Hoyle beat the target with 88.128secs against the 89.50secs target and packed in after two runs. I managed to get revenge against John Loudon and our times were very quick with 88.13secs and 88.44secs against a target of 88.02secs. Steve Carpenter had gone well all weekend but his ST 170 engine expired with big ends knocking on the last run. Roz Kennett was very pleased to pick up the fastest Lady award. So a great weekend and enjoyed by all with some good drives on the ragged edge. A few repairs and I hope tpo be out and see some of you at Snetterton Terry Everall Class G competitor .

Great pics, huge success,congrats all round. Love the cars especially the green one, the blue one and the one in the Gulf colours.

Absolutely brilliant weekend. I can only echo everything already said It gets better every year, looking forward to next year already, and my son Joe has aready booked his spot with Stu PS - anyone smell petrol

Don't think so Craig. They will still there Monday afternoon. I echo the sentiments above. Another great show. Thought the hog roast and beer was a great success. Thanks must also go to Ian (Tolf) for his efforts with the BBQ.

Lorna and I are booked into glencoe on the Monday so we will be up around 3 in the afternoon

Yes thank you Scott and also Mark who stood down this year.

Yep ditto - We went on the Saturday, weather held out. Great show and we thought the WSCC stand was the best supported club by a mile, sad to see some stands totally empty and only one or two on others. Didn't realise there was free drinks ?

A damned good show put on by the Westfield Company and especially by our WSCC volunteer members - as always, an excellent job! Roger

Brakes fixed, so I'll be there. Matt

The Royal Mint have listened to peoples concerns and the new plastic £10 note will be made from 100% rendered dolphin blubber with a picture of Jimmy Saville on the front.

Great day out at Stoneliegh today, eleven Westfields from the Wirral N/Wales Club attended The Kit Car Show. Good display by the WSCC Jeff

Westy finally working but won't get a chance to get to stonleigh this weekend, have a good time everyone

Folks, On the off-chance that you've passed them by, the regs and entry forms for Pembrey can be found here . I noted the following in the regs; 'On both days, the start and finish lines will be as normal. Saturday the course will be entirely as previous years. Sunday will use the new much talked of new Course. ' This is noteworthy for Tigger, Tel and all others involved in calculating scores (apologies if you were already aware). This in car video of a Caterham race earlier in the year demonstrates the new layout; I'm looking forward to trying it. Cheers, Simon

Great decision, Ron

Anna served tea and coffee for the whole day on her own so she is most welcome back next year

Great photos, but best of all, I'm not in any.

Or Chicken

the ultima if you cannot work it out

Hope everyone got home safe and sound and Richie,Kev and Bless didn't get to wet

Indeed, but there must be a better one of me, pleeease...

Just a not to say how useful and productive the club members part shop was today. Thanks all.

Hi Tom I will uphold the seight contingent from Cheshire. Hope you can enjoy a good run in yours soon ? Cheers jon

Don't hide it's beauty! Tried the plastic cover on the 2.0. No chance. I have a cad (cardboard aided design) prototype in work.

I'm in Swadlincote so your fairly local. Give me a shout if your stuck for anything.