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In today’s world, people don’t often offer help or services for nothing. So here is a message to thank two business that have - Jack Webb Motorsport based in Brigg, Lincolnshire. They spent hours going over my car to resolve damper / spring / ground clearance issues. Cost me nothing and bought nothing from them either!! Intatrim from Telford - admittedly spent a few quid with them a few years back but I needed two replacement straps for my doors. Sent them a broken one and they are making me two new ones in carbon effect pvc to match the seats. Done for the cost of postage only. Good news needs to be shared!!

Not when it’s wet! It was strange seeing it again after just over a year since I sold it. But honestly, I really, really like the Exige so no, I don’t miss the westy. The Lotus has a proper roof and is so much more confidence inspiring in the wet that it meant that what would have been a miserable weekend in the Westy was great fun in the Lotus. Which is the reason I swapped over in the first place. However, if I were to actually drive it again around those lovely highland roads on a nice sunny day, the answer might be different 😁

I’ve got it and it’s exactly what I wanted, looking forward to dry days 😀

The ground clearance issue is an easy fix !!!!!!! Lay off the cakes for a while 🤣🤣🤣 take it easy luv Andy & Becky xx

Congratulations to all involved, well done 👍 It does sadden me a little to see that there wasn't anyone for the Novice Champion or Best Newcomer, the speed series and motorsport in general always needs newcomers and novices to keep everything going. When Tom G and I first spoke all those years ago about a WSCC Championship it was always his ethos to encourage and capture "newbies" and offer an economical route into motorsport and wherever that may lead to - So many championship winners in various forms of motorsport have cut their teeth within the Speed Series. Let's hope that 2025 is able to entice and attract some "newbies" 👍

First MOT passed today

Happy motoring 👍

As per another post, here’s a recent snap of my (ex) Westfield turned up to a car meet in Inverness when I was up there for the weekend. Not quite a coincidence though because it now belongs to a mate of a mate and I also still keep in touch with the new owner.

Thank you Chris for a very insightful and helpful post 👍 You are absolutely right re new competitors, they are very unlikely to start winning straight away and certainly just spending fortunes on bigger engines rarely is the answer, a well developed whole car approach often works better, it's more important to be able to stop, than go What's most important is that competitors enjoy the events and the friendships made. 😄 We hope that we can welcome you into our 2025 Championship.

One of the discussions on Saturday at Anglesey was around perception, which to some extents applies here. The perception that a road going car will not be able to compete as everything is a fire breathing monster........ From an outsider who has competed for a just few years 😉 there is a perception that most Caterhams (Yes I used that word as a Caterham owner) compete in road going with a few Westfields in the mix, where as most Westfields compete in modified as fire breathing monsters, with very few similar tuned caterhams. In real terms there is a place for everyone, within the event class structure, from road going standard westfields, to highly tuned and modified monsters in Modified Specialist production. We are competing in roadgoing Specialist Production in a number of championships and see a good mix of road going cars (not just Caterhams & Westfields) with a mix of power and experience, the advice I always give competitors is compete with what you have, see if you like it and learn from experience and when something needs replacing always go for something better. will you be the quickest in the class straight away, probably not unless you are a budding F1 Driver, but if you enjoy it, and most do , you will improve and you will start rising up the rankings, but at first if you have a smile on your face and are improving then thats all that should matter.

Finally got somewhere near finishing this off now. I’ve finished my tool boards, painted them white to keep everything as bright as possible. I’ve also built myself a small bench from scraps I had lying around, with a vice for any car related stuff and fitted a vice to the other bench for woodworking which was very handy for building the new one. Racking is fixed to the walls where possible so nice and secure. Just a bit of cabling and lighting to sort out now.

Some of the Surrey group took advantage of the October sunshine to cross the border into Sussex for a coffee at Torque Moto Cafe yesterday.

Finally got round to giving her a vacuum, thorough wash & polish after driving back through monsoons & tsunami’s (I know I’ve been told 1,000,000 times not to exaggerate) from Newark a few weeks back - had that much debris across it, I though it had Toybox strips on it 🫣🙃😱 all ready for the Black Country meet on Sunday 👍

Welcome! Just enjoy it for a bit before worrying about anything else. The one fab accessory would be a USB heated gillet / jacket! Absolutely brilliant for the winter months! Enjoy! W

Cracking looking car John, I placed a deposit on the white one next to it, hopefully take delivery next week.

I don't know tbh @Craigieboy cos I'm not in Bristol, just near. I do see a lot of pumpkins driving cars going north on the M5 from Bristol though 😂

Love the lime green!

I think this topic is non-westy-ist. So being a tad non PC here’s mine…