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Just squeezed 3 Westfield’s on the Reedham Ferry on the Norfolk Broads.

Harewood 6th& 7thJuly 2019 Once a year the speed series circus visits God’s own county to tackle the longest hillclimb in the country at Harewood. I have to report that the weather was fantastic on both days with both sun and warm weather despite a few threatening clouds so our decision to move the event to July rather than September seemed to pay off. The only downside is that due to its popularity there is always a big entry and we only achieved 2 practice and 2 timed runs on both days but a lot of time was lost due to drivers having spins as they became over excited and forgot where the grip was. The drivers on Saturday were Richard Houlgate (class B), John Hoyle (class F on ZZR) plus Steve Everall, Matt Turner and Terry Everall all in class G on slicks. Five Yorkshire puddings and one from Chester. It was good to see Richard back out in his rebuilt car as well as Steve in his new Fireblade car (aka Terry’s spare car!). The day started poorly with scrutineering at 100hrs with our first practice run at 1115. Before that both my car and John Hoyle’s moved down the grass slope on their own whilst warming up the engines and nearly hit the cars opposite and stopping John’s car damaged both his leg and bodywork. In P1 Matt Turner was having bad gear change issues following a modification to his flatshifter system. He did not sort out the problem until timed run 1 when he discovered that 2 wires were the wrong way round making the ignition cut on the downshift instead of the upshift. Steve was still finding things a bit tricky to use as everything is different to his previous car so was a little off the pace. In P2 Matt was too fast through Quarry , the last corner before the finish and had a big spin but kept out of the gravel traps and avoided the Armco barrier. It was clear that John Hoyle on ZZR tyres was going very well and Matt was hoped up to beat the competition. T1 started at 1500 by which time most of us were getting a bit annoyed with progress. Most of us had a better T2 than T1 and the results were as follows: Richard Houlgate 68.23 John Hoyle 59.58 Matt Turner 59.59 Terry Everall 60.68 Steve Everall 72.83 John Hoyle was 2 seconds quicker than target and was back to his old self going very quickly indeed. Sunday saw the arrival of Mark Bishop (Class A) and no Richard Houlgate who had to meet up with friends in Harrogate and York. Mick Dent as another Yorkshire pudding joined in the battle in his slick shod class H Busa. Once again the day started with a couple of issues. Firstly I bent down toward my car and cut my forehead on a roll cage bracket and later we spotted a loose nut on Steve wishbone mount. It was good to see lots of spectators and some Westfield support including Paul Aspden and Paul Pocklington who was marshalling at Quarry bend. Just for the record there were two Margaret Everall,s spectating! Mark Bishop had an awful day as his engine blew up due to the crank bolt coming loose and messing up the valve timing etc so let’s hope he is out for Blyton next weekend. Steve was still being a bit tentative as he did not want to damage the car before Blyton. Mick Dent was chasing a hard target time of 57.20 set by Dave Cleaver last year. John, Matt and I were battling again and I think John had a rerun and posted an incredible 58.22 secs beating the record easily again on ZZR tyres and he did not take his second timed run as he had scored 101 points. Matt and I were looking for the points in class G and Matt had the upper hand recording a great 58.67 against a target of 59.23 and was well pleased. Almost at the end of the day and on T2 Steve and I got a re run and then I was red flagged twice more before going for my last run. I did not know how much fuel I had left as I only started with about 3/4 gallon but I risked it. I had a long wait whist the track was cleared and I knew Matt and John would be watching how I went as a lot was at stake. The consecutive runs were logged in brain and helped as I pushed the car through the corners and braked as late as possible for the bends. As I saw the clock I punched the air as it read 57.93secs to break the class record and go quicker than Matt and John. I also think that only Dave Cleaver has gone quicker in a Westfield class. So despite there not being many of us there the completion was great and close Mark Bishop DNS John Hoyle 58.22 Matt Turner 58.67 Terry Everall 57.93 Steve Everall 75.17 Mick Dent 60.72 See you at Blyton Terry Everall

If you like model cars or not you gotta like this .... Enjoy

Having fun at Cadwell last Thursday.... What a track!

Camping at the official site is per person. So goes on number of bodies not cars or tents.

Why? Is the exhaust blowing?

Thanks guys, cant wait to get started. When I got the bug last time I ended up taking a couple of weeks of work and had it built in 3 months with weekends and nights thrown in.

Hi Gary, Plan on setting off around 9:00am. Google maps indicates this should take approx 2hrs so should be there around 11:00 ish. cheers Jim.

Sorry, won't make this run 😕

@Dean Goodall Next day trip out we will drop you a message, or even just a trip around the local area. simon

Wind turbines in land there as not much sea!! I wish you all well..

But as the current Laird I allowed them to park there 😁

Our little trip to the Norfolk Broads, had some bad weather but that didn't dampen the mood.

Your visitors must not have brought their guide dogs... there’s a rather prominent “No Parking” sign on the fence at eye level.

Serving tea to visitors at my posh Highland retreat 😁

Well, things didn't go according to the original plan today. But only because another one was formed 😁 This came up at a price I couldn't refuse. Needed to move fast so still have to shift the Fezza, but have a deal agreed. This is the 650S, an evolution of the 12C. Same chassis and something like 85% the same components, but with a few important tweaks from lessons learned from the previous version. First impressions are that it's everything a supercar should be - looks amazing from every angle, comfortable and easy to drive normally, yet an absolute weapon when you press on! It is completely next level from the Ferrari, so much faster and more refined. The extra 10 years of technological development is quite clear. My dad likes it too, he was well chuffed to have a go!

OK, had to wait for Boots to process them! All credit to the various charities and especially Bucks County Council for a great free show for 10,000 at Wycombe Air Park. Not often the local Council gets praise but free unlimited bottled water was impressive.

In the early days...

thanks @Geoffrey (Buttercup) - North Yorkshire AO - I'll ask the bodyshop if they can get paint based on that colour code