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I managed a great day out today. Fantastic weather and still surprisingly warm. A rare chance just to get out on my own and I managed just short of 100 miles. Headed to the North Cornish coast and stopped at Widemouth bay for lunch. then on the coast road to Crackington Haven and a stop on the cliff top then on to Boscastle, Tintagel and the B road blast back to home. All cleaned and ready for the next run out. So far since September I’ve managed 800 miles which I think is great for this time of year. No plans to SORN it yet!

Thanks John, Siltech are doing their best and are hopeful they will get it done and have made 70% of the front chassis already, carbon fibre has been ordered, sump repaired so as long as nothing else is found to be broken we should be there. Steve is feeling worse today but he is not getting much sympathy! We have decided that even if the car is not ready we will still come as it is the end of the season and I am sure someone will need some help over the weekend!

Clan with the nc500 as popular as every the camping huts at Applecross will be in high demand , 2018 dates are Friday22 to Sunday 24th June . The huts are now available to book for next year at this years prices ,just go to the Applecross campsite website . All hut are available just now apart from hut 5 coz am in it . so plenty time to arrange time off work and book huts. Bob

That depends on how the council is approached. I holed the sump on the Cossie in London on a piece of raised ironwork. Took pictures, got the car AA'd home, got three quotes and presented them to the council in question. Their first response was to try to blame contractors. I said no, they were the Principal, the contractors are a third party and of no interest to me. The final paragraph said they had 28 days to pay or I would see them in the small claims court. 10 days later I had a cheque with the whole process from bang to back on the road taking 6 weeks. I made an effort to learn how to effectively go about making the claim successful and was lucky enough to get some very sage advice. The small claims court can be a powerful weapon, even if you never go anywhere near one. Be polite and reasonable and there is very little that can be done to prevent a successful action. Reasonable is key because these are civil issues and in a court the test of reasonable-ness is applied rather than beyond reasonable doubt. If you are reasonable I'll bet 10-1 that at least once council bod won't be and from then on, they lose. Or put another way, give them enough rope to hang themselves... Then the amount by which they lose is really up to them. And be prepared to strike a deal. For example, offer to waive some out-of-pocket expenses or perhaps offer to pay an equivalent of your own insurance excess as a gesture of good will in return for an early settlement. Tell them the offer is time limited and once the deadline passes you will claim the full amount. I've won more than the case above in this fashion so believe me when I say this approach really works. They may not care about potholes or whatever but they do care about their bottom line.

Oh dear, what have I started?

I also can see the logic for a helmet sticker, to save looking inside... however at every hill climb I’ve competed in they still look for the snell / fia stickers.... when I asked a scrute why they look inside he said that it has been known that the msa blue sticker has been faked, and also the snell / fia stickers... hence they need to look inside every time... if this is the case - what’s the point of the blue sticker ?? As for the FHR, I guess that the same will apply, so what is the need for a blue sticker... ??

Scruts still look inside the helmet and under the lining to check the spec even when the sticker is fitted! Some scuts want the Hans device actually fitted to the helmet whereas other don't!

@betarev3 Made them from old set of doors where the clear plastic was damaged while touring Europe a few years ago. Plasic had rubbed againts the roll bar and marked them so just cut out the plastic window to make half doors and used 4mm polycarbonate drilled and bolted to the door. Kept the metal frame bit where it hooks onto the windscreen and in the top of the door, rest of metal frame was cut out. My first attempt of the poly window was about 6 inches shorter than in the pic, to much wind hitting my ear so just made another set longer. Shorter ones here

Not that slowly in my world!

A quick update to @John Williams - WSCC Competition Secretary original post and to add that I'd encourage everyone, not just Speed Series folks to come along...

Yes indeed it was. We can chat about it at the next monthly meet (Tuesday 10th Oct) and I'll fire out a note on WhatsApp and via Email as well.

We will not be able to make this one, as we discussed last Saturday Martyn, which is a shame with it being the last one. I am sure you and Sue will keep up the good work and multi-task by eating your bacon butties and watch the cars on track at the same time. Have fun and we hope to see you both the following weekend. OCLO

Ah I see! Not a screw at all then - more like some kind of a nut!