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We've got a very good covering in Whitchurch. Wife said she hadn't seen 7 inches in years...

Seems like everything we make here, we must ship out manufacture to countries with cheaper materials and labour costs. I wonder if it will make them cheaper to buy now though I guess this may end up and as another 'Pre-lit' car in the future ? You can tell its the lightweight version as only comes with 2 nuts on each wheel

Maurici Rule number 1 is that you must always have an excuse for not winning Rule number 2 is indeed that if you double drive you car make sure that you beat the other driver I still have space in my notebook for excuses but I have used or invented many of them myself!

complete whiteout here

Well. If you ever need charity and you want to drive my car... sure we can sort something. (starting for the rule number 1... Don't be faster than car's owner)

I went through a similar train of thought about the breather and fitted the filter in the end. The filter is fulfilling the same purpose as a carbon canister, just with much lower capacity. As the fuel heats up or during a refuel, vapour will be pushed out through the breather and be absorbed by the filter. Then when it cools down, vapour will be pulled back into the tank and out of the filter. That thermal cycle even happens between day and night without the car being driven. Fumes will only escape once the filter is saturated.

Ratrod of the track car world. I like it. Ariel Rat-om

Wipers in van to give to Neptune tonight Yanto if you still want them

Gonna be -12C in Worcestershire tonight. Global warming my A***.....

..Building a snowman?

All be thankful that you havn't got a dreadful scoring system like the HSA one. I like our system Ours rewards a fast driver no matter how many are in the class .

It snowed in Ringwood in 2003. Probablly the one and only time. The locals blamed me for it mind...

During my first season I was consistently beaten by my own car... I learned to don't let anyone potentially better than me drive my car. Ash still have a westy, afaik he dosn't need charity to be back to the series...

One set of target times to fit all (novices and experts); target times may be the wrong name for them but we all know how they are used. In the main TTs are only there for the scoring system to work, they also do recognise the class records wherever possible. It does not matter what they are as long as they provide a levelish playing field across the classes and venues (there is no perfect scoring system, if there was then all championships would use the one perfect scoring system). We have a large amount of data to work for in all classes except A and B. SSOT have reviewed the little data we have on these two classes but as such it is not enough (with a small cross-section of drivers and many weather and types of course etc) to be able to sensibly use this data for establishing targets. The TTs scoring systems works perfectly well for Class and Overall scoring alike, it makes no difference. Competitors need to take the emotion away from wanting a target that is achievable and also a novice target that would enable a novice to win the overall championship (that is hardly a level playing field). IMHO a novice is really unlikely to be skilled and experienced enough to win the overall championship unless they had extensive experience in some other form of motorsport and then that would bring into question their novice status. Using a 2% adjustment on C & D targets is NOT done to "protect the old guard" it has been set on the basis of the little amount of data we have. @AdamR@maurici and @Mark (smokey mow)if you have extensive data on list 1A/B tyres and synchro gearboxes that you can share with SSOT then please do pass onto Terry Everall. One set of targets makes absolutely no difference to the position in class and overall, whether a novice or expert, it simplifies the scoring and the results website. The championship is run by volunteers and keeping things as simple as possible is the right thing to do. There is no other championship in the UK that scores experts and novices differently or tries to level the competition across classes. Many elements of our championship are included to make it attractive to competitors new to the sport compared to other championships. We have a reduced number of qualifying events to count and the Sprint Challenge exclusively for novices. There are also overall and class novice awards. Then there is the unparalleled support given to novices in our championship by the more experienced competitors.

No from me .. my car is in bits