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The post-pandemic edition! May the 24th is the official National Drive Your Westfield to Work Day, which contrary to the title is actually a week where we encourage you to leave the normal daily driver at home and experience driving the Westfield to your place of work, raising smiles on both your face, and those who join you in the daily drudge. Of course, some of you may no longer frequently travel to a place of work (I'm not) so like last year, I would like everyone to get creative and get a picture of themselves with their Westfield! A selfie, a picture taken by a member of your family... as long as it is a fresh picture, everything is submittable! You have the week from the 23rd to the 29th to participate 👍 Have a look at previous years: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017.

At St Mary’s Loch with @Apc1x on our way to the highlands with the lads

Bugs like yellow!! Westfields can take all colours and look fantastic. Personal choice. @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative has BRG and it looks brilliant. Mine is dark blue with black interior. All of them look far better with a bit of cow poo having had a drive out 😀😀

It will be a short drive for me but I will still take part 😁

Hi all, Its that time again... A-Plan have again been fantastic. A great price, great service and you speak to pleasant, polite people that actually know what they are doing! Can't recommend them highly enough.

Hi All. I'm picking up my new 11 at the factory on Friday. Bit scared looking at the build manual! I built a Caterham some 15 years ago, but that was from a wreck with a new chassis, this will be my first full build with SVA at the end. Hoping to get it on the road for next summer, time allowing. I have scrapped a very rotten midget to get the mechanicals which I will have rebuilt, as I want as many parts as possible to be new. You will see me on the technical forums!

Hello there! Been meaning to sign up to WSCC for ages and now that I'm finally behind the wheel I've finally got round to it. I've been building my Westfield FW for the last couple of years and got it on the road just before Christmas last year. Passed the IVA first time but it was sat waiting for six months due to the backlog... Tucked it away for the winter and have now racked up 600 miles over the last couple of months, breaking her in gently. It's a fairly standard FW, with the addition of throttle bodies, and I'll be looking to add extras and upgrades subject to funding - would definitely welcome recommendations! I'm thinking side screens and maybe a top might be first..? Not really set up for the track, but I've signed up for the CKC/Prodev track day this weekend at Llandow. Looking forward to touring some of the beautiful roads around the South West (living in Bristol now but I'm an Essex boy originally) - great to see so many trips happening in the forums, I'll hope to join some of them soon! Paul

@Howsafe Workwear and Safety Equipment do all the Club branded merchandise and their stuff is excellent quality!

Thanks Graham 👍

Hi @Paul Baker, Welcome and lovely car you have there. I am your local AO for Bristol and Bath and I'm going to Llandow on Saturday too, BRG SEiW with Toybox strip, so we can catch up then. I'll PM you with some local updates etc. Regards Chris

from sunny Somerset.

Made the pinto feel at home!

Haha! Thanks for the welcome. I love the debate on colour - I was originally set on BRG, then it was blue with biscuit interior, then I decided on yellow before a late switch to red. Think I got the right colour in the end…😉

How about this sport Dave, Autotest, makes me dizzy just watching.

from a very summery Norfolk! Lovely looking car.

@Glen_I they are very good especially if you have them line X coated. The only reason I got rid was because my old man (captain diesel) couldn’t fit his childbearing hips in them. Yes we bought super nice Tillets and they are super nice but those RCC seats are darn good value. The tillets are a b***h to fit btw

What a coincidence, I too have been looking at this company albeit the MK1 seats. But wary about ordering some without trying. I have the Westfield Race Seats which I love but someone sat not too far from me finds them to 'snug', so may have to look at other options or just leave said 'person' at home! I'm sure @Paul Aspden (MoFast)had them before swapping over to the Tillets? There was another member who sold a pair recently but can't remember who??

Thanks all! Looking forward to getting going. Some front suspension parts arrived from the MGOC today so I can make a start. I realise an 11 is more than a kit, will definitely need some help.

American "autocross" is more formally known as SCCA Solo. The SCCA is the Sports car Club of America and they are the sanctioning body for 'Solo' events - more commonly known as autocross. Autocross events are typically held in parking lots and they don't have to be huge for there to be a fun course. Our little city of Bozeman has few large parking lots (and no race tracks) and our local SCCA club hosts events in a church parking lot on Saturday when the church isn't in use. Courses are not in any way permanent. They are designed to fit the lot being used and they are designated with orange traffic cones. The cone location is marked with chalk on the pavement so if a cone is hit it can be put back in the same spot so that the course doesn't change during the day. There are very few straight sections in any given course and the car is nearly always turning to a degree so the emphasis is on handling and not straight line speed or acceleration. Smaller courses will usually have a top speed (for the fastest cars) of about 65 mph and an average course will be about 60 seconds long. I've raced courses as short as 35 seconds and as long as 95 seconds. If the driver hits a cone they are penalized 2 seconds....and since races are won by fractions of a second it is very, very rare that a driver can hit a cone and win with a run where they hit a cone. Each driver will make multiple runs during a day of competition. There is no practice driving. The drivers walk the course and many times and study the line they want to take and pick out braking points and areas where the grip is good/bad and come up with a plan. The first run is typically not very quick for obvious reasons. As the day goes on most drivers will lower their times substantially. The important thing to remember is that only the fastest run counts. So a driver can have 9 crappy runs and one fast one and still do well. When a driver is done taking their allotment of runs they work the course and pick up cones that other drivers hit. Hitting cones is common....if you want a good time you need to drive the shortest course which means placing the car a foot or less from the cone. So inevitably some are hit and the course workers radio those into timing and set them back into the chalk box for the next driver. All types of cars can run. An average event with see mostly street driven cars with minimal preparation....Honda Civics and VW Golfs and the like are very popular. Each car will fit into a class and the driver will compete against other drivers in similar cars prepared to a similar level so most drivers have a chance to win their class. The fastest cars are the modifieds. I run my Westie in "D Mod" and the most basic rules are that it can't be under 1420 lbs with the driver and it can have an engine no larger than 2.0L. I built my Mega S2000 with this class in mind and I'm 5 lbs over the min weight. All drivers want to take the coveted "Fast Time of Day" award which is just what it sounds like....the fastest run made that day regardless of the class. I built my car to compete for FTD awards and so far I've taken about 70 FTD awards in it. When the Vettes, 911's, and Atoms see my car roll off the trailer they aren't usually smiling American autocross is apparently has the largest number or participants of any motorsport in the world. The SCCA has over 90,000 members and most have autocrossed at some point. The largest autoX event in the USA is the national championships and they limit the number of participants to about 1300 and the registration fills in just a few days. Poeple come from all four corners of the USA to race each other on two courses set up on an old WWII air base. It has hundreds of acres over perfectly flat and featureless concrete and the competition is very serious. So....that's the basics of American Autocross. It's way too much fun. I raced last weekend and I'll be racing again this coming weekend. I usually get about 18-20 days a year in. Let me know if you have any questions....obviously I'm in love with this goofy sport and not afraid to write about it! dave P.S. - the photos show an event held at our local venue....a church parking lot. The lot is about 500' x 300' and that is about as small a lot that will work well. My car will hit the rev limiter in 2nd gear on these courses which means I'm making turns at 63 mph in that small lot. You can see the cones obviously. many cones are lying down and they indicate the direction of the course so that the driver can know what to expect. The lying down cones are "leaners" - the only cones that incur a penalty are the standing ones. But frankly if you hit a leaner your run sucked anyway.

We only went up the Woodside Cafe (on the Via Gellia) for a bacon buttie in the sunshine. On the way home we had a fantastic fast and amazingly traffic free run down the B5056 from Grangemill to Fenny Bentley 👍 I'm doing my bit for recruitment, hopefully we'll be adding another couple of new members quite soon, I'll keep you posted....