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I know I’ve been a critic of the calendar and suggested changes in the past, so let me be the first to say “Thank you” for listening and keeping some of my much loved events down south and introducing or re-introducing some venues we’d dropped or lost. Looks like a good calendar for 2019 great job SSOT. I will personally support as many of these events as I can

Oh, spoilsport, you've guessed it much too quickly. I thought I might run this for several days!! 4.2 litres, 2 superchargers (!) and low mileage. I'm just getting too old and weak to climb in and out of the XI.

SPEED SERIES CALENDER 2019 and UPDATE Long post alert On the afternoon of this years awards do the SSOT held a meeting at the Lea Marston Hotel, where a number of topics were discussed; Present at the meeting were Terry Everall, Nick Algar, Mark Anson, John Loudon, John Williams, and Andy Banks. A number of topics were discussed including the make up of the SSOT going forward. Probably the main announcement for 2019 is that from 1st January 2019, Terry Everall will be co-opted into the role of Competition Secretary with Nick Algar remaining as Championship Coordinator. John Williams will continue to organise the Blyton Weekend and assist with admin and documentation. At the AGM at Stoneleigh in 2019, Terry will be formally voted in to the committee role. The SSOT would like to thank John for all his hard work during his time as Comp Secretary, which is difficult and time consuming role especially given all of John’s other responsibilities. Since the end of the season, Terry Everall and I have been working to put the calendar together for 2019 and you will see that we have done our best to listen to the competitors, made some changes, which includes some new venues for 2019, in an effort to spice things up a little and hopefully attract some new competitors. 2019 should make for an exciting year. Below is a list of proposed events however we must stress this is the PROVISIONAL CALENDER and is therefore subject to change depending on the organising clubs. I will also now try and explain the reasoning for some of the changes in an effort to answer some of the anticipated questions from competitors. The SSOT have listened to some members who were complaining about the lack of hill climbs on the calendar and it clear that some folk prefer these to sprints. As such you will notice that there are now 11 hill climbs on the calendar so if they wanted too a competitor could do a full season just doing hills should they wish to do so. The hillclimb venues are Wiscombe, Shelsley, Loton Park Gurston Down and Harewood. What I can say it has become apparent that the organising clubs, especially the hills are now asking how many competitors we expect to attend these events before they offer us an invite. Therefore the onus is on you folks to support these events or else they will disappear from the calendar as we will not be able to secure an invite if we only get one or two turning up. Wiscombe is back on however the only weekend we could secure is at the end of April which is quite early but that was all that was on offer from the organising club. Loton Park is still a full weekend as before. We did attempt to secure a second Loton weekend and we thought we had agreed this however Hagley had a change of heart and we just have the one weekend at the moment but we are still working on this at the time of writing. Harewood has moved to an earlier date as we felt this would be better weather wise and avoids other clashes: Shelsley :You will notice that we have lost the Shelsley weekend we have supported as club for several years. This is entirely out of our control and we are disappointed especially in light of last years successful WSCC weekend. We have not had much in a way of an explanation but it seems that MAC have made the decision. Nevertheless we have been offered three single events which we have accepted. Gurston is now a full weekend instead of a single day. I know I’m repeating this but I cannot stress enough that we hope these events are supported well or we will lose them if we do not…..it is that simple and it will be out of the control of the SSOT. Snetterton. Unfortunately B19 despite their best efforts have fallen victim to MSV,s renown customer care policy and have been unable to negotiate a weekend, so sadly Snetterton is off the calendar. We do however have four new venues on this year which we are excited about as they haven’t appeared on the WSCC calendar for several years. Castle Combe (yet to be confirmed) is back on the calendar and we have also secured invites to Goodwood, Lydden Hill and Knockhill. I paid a visit to Knockhill this year with the BSC as an observer and a fact finding mission and Terry has done a great job in securing us an invite. For those not familiar with Knockhill the event is part of Superlap Scotland. We are given a time slots between the other races and drivers have to be ready in their cars ready to run, when its our turn. That said from what I could see the organisers run very professional operation and it all works very well, and I can recommend watching the Legends race it they are there. There are also plenty of spectators which makes for a good atmosphere. The only slight negative is the paddock can be quite tight for space but everyone seems to manage fine. There is also a restaurant that does food too and some other stall selling other items. Hopefully that answers a few questions some of you may have had and hopefully addresses the concerns of those who were complaining about lack of hills and events in “the south”. Mark Anson SSOT. Date Round Event Club Sat 23 March 2019 1 Castle Coombe ???? Bristol Motor Club Sat 6 April 2019 2 Ty Croes LDMC Sun 7 April 2019 3 Ty Croes LDMC Sat 20 April 2019 4 Goodwood Bognor Regis Motor Club Sat 27 April 2019 5 Wiscombe HC Woolbridge Motor Club Sun 28 April 2019 6 Wiscombe HC Woolbridge Motor Club Sat 4 May 2019 7 Ty Croes MGCC NW Sun 5 May 2019 8 Ty Croes MGCC NW Sat 11 May 2019 9 Curborough Fig 8 BMMC Sat 18 May 2019 10 Blyton LDMC Sun 19 May 2019 11 Blyton LDMC Sat 1 June 2019 12 Shelsley Walsh HC MAC Sat 1 June 2019 13 Pembrey BARC Wales Sun 2 June 2019 14 Pembrey BARC Wales Sat 15 June 2019 15 Lydden Borough 19 Sat 15 June 2019 16 3 Sisters LDMC Sat 29 June 2019 17 Aintree LMC Sat 6 July 2019 18 Harewood HC BARC Yorks Sun 7 July 2019 19 Harewood HC BARC Yorks Sat 13 July 2019 20 Blyton WSCC Sun 14 July 2019 21 Blyton WSCC Sat 20 July 2019 22 Gurston Down HC Gurston down HC Sun 21 July 2019 23 Gurston Down HC Gurston down HC Sun 28 July 2019 24 Shelsley Walsh HC MAC Sun 4 Aug 2019 25 Hethel 1.25 lap circuit Borough 19 Sun 4 Aug 2019 26 3 Sisters LDMC Sat 10 Aug 2019 27 Shelsley Walsh HC MAC Sat 24 Aug 2019 28 Curborough Fig 8 BMMC Sat 24 Aug 2019 29 Loton Park HC HDLCC Sun 25 Aug 2019 30 Loton Park HC HDLCC Sun 1 Sept 2019 31 3 Sisters LDMC Sat 7 Sept 2019 32 Aintree LMC Sat 7 Sept 2019 33 Knockhill Sun 8 Sept 2019 34 Knockhill Sat 14 Sept 2019 35 Mira MAC Sat 5 Oct 2019 36 Ty Croes LDMC Sun 6 Oct 2019 37 Ty Croes LDMC

An adult smurf?

I've just bought the Duramat flooring in black coin as my Christmas week off project to install , so that should be interesting rather than watching rubbish TV. Wife said that's now guarantee'd rain for the week.

Out walking this morning before sunrise. Beautiful winter morning, blue sky and frost.. perfect!

Thank you Mark, and everyone involved. I know it's difficult keeping everyone happy, so your efforts really are very much appreciated. It's kind of ironic that I had my most successful year this year, and only did one hill - Gurston - and that was my worst score, as I've previously preferred hills. I'm not planning on chasing the championship next year (I say that now ) so I'm looking to do events I've not done for a long time, or have never visited, rather than going after points. Looking forward to it

Me & dad will be there guys

Nice evening.

Cheers for the info Rab and for taking the time to sort will get onto the lady and get booked up asap Gary

Thanks Rab. As I mentioned previously, I'm unlikely to be able to make that weekend so won't commit to accommodation. There's an outside chance I can make the Saturday run, although that would mean a 350-mile day for me, so very much weather dependent. I'll stay up to date with the arrangements, Cheers, Brian.

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Already in hand! It is a low mileage and very clean example, and as part of the deal the dealer has agreed to have it waxoiled. It comes with full and well documented history, and looks to have been owned for some years by a keen Jaguar enthusiast. It only came into the hands of the dealer because he traded it in against a much newer car.

I compete in the Super Lap Scotland series at Knockhill and have done so for the last couple of seasons. I will be doing SLS again this year but also plan to do a number of the Sprint Series, even though I live close to Inverness!! The Sprint Series event at Knockhill will be run clockwise one day and anti clockwise the other, truely it is like two totally different tracks, personally I prefer going anticlockwise, though coming into the hairpin from 120mph kind of focuses the mind. In previous years the September event is the 3rd most popular with the public after the Touring Cars and Superbikes, so expect c10000 spectators The purpose of this note is if anyone requires information about Knockhill on and off track and accommodation then feel free to contact me

Good luck with the sale, they look great. I've a similar set on my westy and it's absolutely transformed the handling

Yes.. built as stables and hay store.. but going to have 230 horses in for now...

Rally Drivers are alright. Spectators who stand on the outside of bends, they're the nutters...