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PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING There were 4 of the SSOT team at the event and we not only spent a lot of time talking to the drivers affected but also some of the LDMC officials. In addition yesterday I spent the whole day on the phone talking to LDMC and the SSOT checking on the FACTS. Please be assured that in the SSOT we have many years of experience including understanding the Rules and their application as well as dealing with scrutineers. We have already contacted Motorsport UK officials and we are developing a plan to address the issues raised at the weekend. We all feel frustrated and disturbed by what happened but we need to put emotions to one side and sort out the Rules and their interpretation ASAP. This is a national issue that affects many divers and makes of car and has been a concern to drivers since since the requirement for CATS was introduced about 10 years ago and has often been debated in the paddock etc So let us get on with our plans and we will report back ASAP

The thread has been locked as there is a lot going on in the background that you aren’t aware of and some of the comments are becoming “unhelpful”. This does not do anyone any favours least of all the competitors affected whilst we are trying to sort matters out. As soon as there is anything to publish on the matter then it will be done. As I said in another thread social media can be a great tool but it can also be dangerous at the same time, so I would ask that folk let us do our best to investigate the matter and get some answers. Mark Anson SSOT

On behalf of the `SSOT I have decided to Lock this topic until we have more information for competitors. We understand the frustrations etc and are actively trying to resolve the issues with both LDMC as well as Motorsport UK. Rest assured that we are on the case to clear up this issue as a matter of urgency

Hi! I'm thinking about starting a Norfolk/Suffolk Westfield Owners branch of the owners club and I would like to see how many would be interested in a monthly meet, breakfast mornings, track days, days out, shows etc... So if you're interested can you let me know and I'll get a venue sorted and a date for the first get together! Thanks Alan

Hi everyone. I've just completed the build and IVA for my Duratec engined car. My intention was to enter it into the speed series but I don't think I'm going to get around to this with other commitments. Therefore I've decided to put the car up for sale so someone else can get the enjoyment out of it. It will allow me to move on with other projects. Some people will know the car from my build thread but here is a quick run down of its spec: 2 litre duratec from a fiesta ST150 (55,000 miles on the engine when bought) Engine has had a new timing chain, new crank bolt and washer, new spark plugs, all new gaskets, new sump to suit 5 degree angle, New clutch kit including bearings New lightweight alternator 5 speed gearbox from an NC MX5 with a hydraulic clutch The brakes are operated by a bias bar dual master cylinder setup so are fully adjustable Westfield/Hispec calipers all around 3.6 LSD sierra diff, fully refurbed by Bara motorsport with the LSD unit uprated Jenvey throttles run by an omex 600 ecu with 330cc injectors The car was tuned and produced 186bhp at bhperformance in january. Protech fully adjustable shock absorbers custom built by Procomp Motorsport Compomotive CXR 13x7" front wheels 13x8" rear wheels all fitted with Nankang AR-1 tyres. Full Fia caged roll cage Westfield seats with sabelt 4 point harnesses Race technology Dash2 digital dashboard. Aerodynamics carbon fibre dash panel and tunnel panel. Summit raptor wireless steering wheel controls. This controls: horn, indicators, hazards, dip/dim switch (3 outputs free to be assigned to your choice: ecu map switching, etc.) Odyssey pc680 lightweight battery Dominator 4" headlamps Flush fitting aerocatches fitted to bonnet and bootlid The car weighs 643kg with fluids Pictures of the build at various stages can be supplied with the car along with all receipts collected during the build. If any more specific pictures are required please feel free to ask. 07595 421630 I'm looking for £19,000

I'm moving on to an Ultima. Picking it up tomorrow, can't bl**** wait! I'll report back on how it compares

Both Vignettes and train ticket done

Yeah AB performance somewhere in Essex i think

I think a big tractor ticks quite a few of those requirements. Go agricultural!

Shame you don’t like BMWs...a manual e46 M3 should be on that list.

I’d add, if it’s mainly for track use, get on ON TRACK with some members. May 23rd @ Cadwell looks to have a few of us, or the club track day @ Blyton in July if you can wait that long.

Be good to see you, Jim

@Terry Everall - WSCC Competition Secretary Why would you lock that thread? Its collecting a lot of thoughts for you to consider. Goes all against free speech.

Yes, 3 wires are as you say. For the price it was worth a punt - not sure if that's the exact same one I got a year or two back, but looks identical and the specs appear to match. I think I paid £3.99 delivered - and as I said, works perfectly.

I'm sure I have one somewhere, Let me have a look and get back to you. If you don't here back from me tomorrow send me a reminder pm. Lee

Hello all, will try and make it. I am alive! Moved again now in maldon for the foreseeable......... and i have a garage so I can use it again rather than it sit in storage!!!

Had an epic trip here with 27 kits starting from Chester. As it was a charity run, the owners didn't charge us the entrance fee and kindly let us drive through the village in groups of 3. Some great roads driven on the way there! Some strange goings on! Lovely location I spy @bioman The only Bagpuss in the village? @CosKev's Chaffeur Virtually straight pipes on both sides- great noise!

Great day out Awesome pics as usaul Made even better on the way home when Dug let me drive the last 20 miles

Meet Brian...

I'll watch this post and be very interested in the outcome. If this is upheld I won't be out this year as planned as the car we were planning on using may not meet the required spec, so no WSCC, LDMC sprints for me as planned. I'll hang off before I waste my money renewing my licence. What a shame, and a disappointing start to the year. Rich

My DAD! & Dad's Dad was a car enthusiast too. A few years ago Dad's first car was a sporty Jowett convertible. He drives every day and for last 6+ years he's been driving an MX5 mk3 - with 2 speeding tickets and no bumps! Not unusual you think! But he is now in his mid 90's and has just completed a power upgrade..... So proud of him. & so wish to be as sprightly and able to burn up the highways when I reach his age. (and be able to afford to)

Well I'm loving my Jaguar XKR. Not what many on here would want I know, but then I'm quite a bit older than the majority of Westy owners. It is well over 3 times the weight of my XI, but it does have 400 bhp., and oodles of torque to push it along, so everybody who has been in it is amazed at the acceleration, particularly at quite high speeds.

I think I will be getting the Eurorescue Plus to provide my breakdown cover. https://eurorescue.co.uk/BreakdownServices.aspx

Well. Just got home at 12.30 P.M. On sunday of what was meant to be the first weekend of my sprinting season after a year without competing. This is a post to highlight how roten and how little common sense is applied by several people on this sport, but if you are a member of SSOT and you are reading this lines, don't worry, this wont be one of my inflamatory posts moaning and swearing. I've been asked to write this in a MP to the SSOT, but, I really think It must be public, so I've done my best effort on being objective and descriptive. The weekend started bad, very bad, on friday where we was allowed to scrutinie our cars.It was a good Idea to do so and take it out of the way. The day was typical miserable Anglesey weather, with rain and wind. I went to the scrutiniering bay and queued under the rain getting soaked for an hour while the scrutinier decied to accept to take a radikal in admision without logbook and arranged to have it made in-situ while the others were waiting in the queue, under rain cold and wind. When this individual, finished with the loog book, told to all the cars in the queue that he was tired and he would not accept any other car. That was 17.50 P.M. The scrutiniering times were till 18.30 P.M. Fair enough he didn't wanted to scrutinie our cars, but was absolutely unnecesary to have us waiting for an hour under the rain, and even more unnecesary to laught in our faces when all the 4 cars there waiting told him “c'mon, only 4 cars and we have been soaked under the rain for an hour”... This same undesirable individual, laught in my face again on saturday morning when I went to scrutinie my car, asking me if I was still soaked after yesterdays wait. Poor taste, and a clear view of a person that shouldn't be allowed to share space with normal people. After the 4th saturday timed run, I decieded to call it a day. I was first in class, and I wasn't going any faster, and I was reasonably happy with the points scored in the speed series, so I went with my dad walking to rocket corner to see the last timed run from there. When we walked back, Gavin, Longton's secretary came to tell me to go to the scrutiniering bay as I was requested by the scrutinier team. When I arrived there, I found myself and another 5 westfields under re-check for not having catalytic converters in the car. I have to say, that everyone will know their circumstances, but in my case, being road-going and Q-plate, and enforced by both championship rules to bring the car in the exact same condition that it wen trough the MOT, I was pretty convinced that my car didn't need it. Apparently does. In summary, we were all of us excluded from the event and banned to take part in next day event. The same undesirable individual who had been behaving not very well during the whole weekend, was extremely rude, unpolite, and refused to even debate the rules. He was too busy issuing us non compliance sheets with his best sarcastic smail and with a feel of satisfaction while f***** 5 amateur drivers and making them waste a lot of money for all the wasted weekend. The clerck of the course, surprisingly, was the one who took the decision to exclude us, and supported this individual position. A clerck of a club (whitch I'm a paid member) that is alive because there is amateur drivers competing with them, and other clubs (like wesfield one) attending to their meetings... so witch hunting amateur competitors of a whole “friend” club, doens't looks like the best practice. The rule of the catalityc converters is been there for ages, and is been not enforced, because is not realistic, and technically speaking you can't fit them to any engine. Is not a safety issue and should be prossecuted ONLY if another competitor claims against your car. And that, from my experience in club motorsports, rarely happens. If they wanted to start to police it, or enforce it, they shold have had to issue a warning beforehand to avoid competitors with cars that had been compilant for 10 years to waste over a grand preparing the weekend. (as for example happened with the warning of the f***** lithium batterys). And the should had to do a sample of the WHOLE PADOCK. I did walk a bit this morning, and I could count from a single pass, about 15 cars post 1999 without catalytic converters. Is another stupid rule, like the one of the size of the headlamps (just to quote one), that if you apply it with severty, half of the grid would be excluded. What happens now? Well. This is my goodbie to the competition world. At least the MSA world, and my return to trackdays. There will be two clubs without me as a customer due this incident, and a license less in the MSA, so they are losing it, not me. For you to understand my point, I'm not an sprinter, and I don't praticularly enjoy sprinting itself. I like track time, and I like competition, and sprinting is the only way of competition I can afford, so NO, I'm not sprinting anymore and not giving longton or MSA a single penny ever else. After wasting over a grand in one weekend, I think I had enough. They lose a customer (and maybe other 4), they will look terrible to the public, More issues will arise now... its been a terribly poor move from all of them. Who wins? Unfortunately nobody aside of the undesirable scrutinier who enjoyed the whole story like if he was wining the lottery. Shame and poor management from all of them this weekend. Those are the facts, from my point of view, and I've tried my best to be as objective and near to the real truth as I possibly can. Regards. Maurici Revilla-Vazquez. Msa National B license Holder. Longton And District M.C. Member. WSCC member and Speed series competitor.