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New addition. Need to get some MoFast stickers 😂

Braving the 'Chelsea Tractors' in Radlett (South Herts) to do the fish n' chips run. Lovely evening for a drive though 🙂.

I will be there in the Westy, as long as it does not self destruct between leaving home and arriving at the pub 😳

I'll let you know how I get on. I'll post my findings in the Video Talk section.

I was working Friday unlike some 🙄

Yesterday was epic — six sessions, 15 minutes each, proper time attack fun. Car felt great after some recent tweaks (brake pump and geometry mods doing their job!). Came into today feeling good (started on hot tyes - thaks to aliexpress tyre blankets , confident from start slicks , had a solid sprint… and then on end of second sprint , well — a little off, snapped a wishbone. Nothing major, just didn’t have a spare one at the track. Weekend cut a bit short, but still a blast overall. No complaints (poor sound - exept for spare wishbones, fogot Gopro adapter for external mic )

Monthly meet for a natter and a pint, usual venue, The Crown Inn Bridport DT6 4AX from 19.30. Usual informal format, come and go as you please.

Looking forward to playing with this. Would have been great to have this when we were whizzing up the closed road hillclimb at the Bromyard Speed Festival last week (a great event BTW, highly recommended).

Not many tracks in Poland, so such mix of autocross and track (cones etc instead of always the same track line as on normal car tracks). I like this Autodrom Jastrząb , good sticky surface, not top fast hotel and parking few metres from start(cold shower between sessions on hot day! ) .. but yes. Have to drive there from home approx 3-3.5 hrs with trailer .

It's taxed, mot, and ready for another long journey😁

Please be more considerate, he’s not got his Westfield Rocket ship anymore and prefers life at a slower pace 😎

Hi! I've not managed to get along to the monthly Thursday meets in ages so looking forward to seeing you all this week! As normal, we are at the Clock Warehouse in Shardlow (DE72 2GL) at about 7pm. We normally park in the lower car park (to the right of the pub) and we will be meeting upstairs as always. Hope to see you there! Rob

A Westfield would make for a great weekend car year around in Spain

That look like a lot of fun Paul.

A couple of pics from tonight's meeting.

Binky 41 is out 😎

took my little grandson out for a morning drive in the westie got home and my father in law was there so I had to take him out again in his car little man's verdict at the end was the megablade was way better, a true westie enthusiast in the making.

Same! Must admit, I do miss the old Asbo at times. Fabulous little car, very quick and handled soooo unbelievably well.

Yeah definitely, you will be wearing a helmet anyway. I love my full cage. My first ever kit alongside my current 4th kit. The Westfield definitely feels safer 😂

No matter how tight your strapped in in a serious collision with something hard the cage bars might bend towards you helmet always

Also, one other often misunderstood bit of cages. In general, the type of padding sold to go on the roll bar tubes by specialists motor sport supply places, is NOT to directly protect your (bare) head!* Its intended to reduce the initial impact of your helmeted head, hitting a tube, so the helmet doesn’t get wiped out on the first blow, and continue to give some protection as you’re bounced around etc, during a crash. *I have in the past, seen padding advertised as protecting you without a helmet. Not sure how much I’d trust it though, and it was much bulkier and way more expensive. But like all these things, everyone uses their car slightly differently, and everyone has to do their own mental risk/reward calculation, and do what they feel comfortable with.

Nobody straps in that tight in a road car though, that's the trouble. In fact at track days I've never seen anyone strap in that tight either. Even strapped in well you'd be surprised how much you get thrown around in a crash, it's absolutely violent as hell.

That’s true to a point, but if you’ve ever been properly strapped into a race car by the pit crew, it would shock you just how tight “tightly strapped in” means. I doubt any owners will strap themselves in that tight while using on the road. Also, keep in mind, with some belts, the material they’re made of is able to stretch/deform somewhat to help absorb some of the initial shock of a bad impact.

Bear in mind with a full cage you should wear a helmet (even though often I don't), in an accident the cage itself can kill you if you are without a helmet. Think being smacked hard around the head with a scaffold pole. Nasty.

Will try to make it to this one. Weather and MOT woes dependant!

hoping to make this one - will be my first time out with you lot

So from work we get a quarterly "wellness allowance". Meant for home office niceties, gym subscriptions, fitness equipment etc. You get the idea. I managed to sneak these through as "gym trainers", in a fetching shade of Westfield blue to match the car. Just right for the treadmill, or a small pedal box, whichever seems more appropriate! 🤣🫣🤫

Love Binky. My brother is actually doing a similar project. Not quite to the same bracketry level as Binky, but still a hell of a challenge. He's putting everything from a 2018 mini into a classic shell. Me old man was doing write ups of the progress. But unfortunately the project has had to take a back seat at the moment as me brothers now busy extending and renovating his new family home. Hopefully it will see completion though some day when the house and garage are finished. We really should've started a family YouTube channel, been some serious challenges on both projects and he's done all of the work himself, with help from me and our old man.

(I wonder when they will revisit and ditch the servos for steppers) (I did swap servo for stepper, And I'm nowhere near as obsessed as these two are)

Episode 40 is out 😎