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Was good up here 👍

Doesn't it feel great being average though? 😃

Turned out nice. I left a bit later and the frost was all gone.

Finally hit Average Joe Driver! Was it an in depth post about different thread forms? No? Was it a technical treatise about the connection between ride height and roll height? No! It was a Carry-On seaside postcard style suggestive comment about ball joints. 🫣

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!!

Ain't nothing going to stop me going a drive today.... 😬 😂

Never seen them before and only had to walk to the end of my road tonight.

Andrew thanks for the info & offer. I may take you up on that or strip mine out in Jan 25 to give them time. But will be popping over to see them in the next month. 🫶🏼🤞👍

This time of year, when lots of people are trying to buy carcoons, I'd recommend dealing with Carcoon directly. Demon Tweeks will take your money and sit on it until Carcoon send them stock. It may not be any quicker, but you've more chance of knowing how long you're going to wait.... We had a zip failure on an outdoor carcoon that we had bought directly from Carcoon, they sent us a box, arranged pick-up, fixed the carcoon and sent it back to us.

WH smith if you have one near you. I believe you can get copies delivered directly also

Can’t use the cold tyres excuse when it all goes wrong.

Welcome and great car! Yarm hey, the home of Tall Trees - had a many a good night there!

John that looks the dogs dangerla’s & defo in the best colours 🫶🏼👍

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 😁

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" 👍

It has been a really interesting year in terms of trying out a new scoring system, slight change of classes, and trying to see how best to go forward with the Speed Series. There has been very good attendance at our usual popular events eg LDMC Anglesey, with Blyton Park & Harewood also proving popular. Other events less popular, this will be taken into account with our 2025 Calendar. However the most unusual result for the Championship has been to see Dave Smith and Dave Banner score so well and us to end up with a Tie for the Overall Champion, this is usually resolved using some form of countback, however our regulations did not cover us for the particular circumstances in this case. So we have declared a tie between the two Dave's, who both drove exceptionally well all season. Congratulations to them both.

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.

New Aston Martin Vanquish undercover!

Whilst the GT40 was a bit of a one off, my ‘regular’ cars were the Cooper Bristols and a Cooper T43. We were lucky that the sun came out for the race on Saturday!