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My first official recognition! A respectable 3rd Place at the 2025 Boeing - Renton car show (out of about 40-50 cars). I was bested by a 1982 Ferrari 308 GTB Quattrovalvole, and a well restored 1968 Dodge Coronet 440 6-pack. Given that competition, I was more than pleased with the Westfield's first showing. Lots of people stopped to look and ask questions, and everyone loved it. Some knew about Caterhams, but Westies are pretty rare around here. I lost track of how many times I had to unlatch the bonnet to give people a peek at the Duratec.

I've watched all the Terminator films, I ain't going nowhere near it dude! 😂

Was a really good evening and didn't even have a Scrooby Doo of how the track flowed as did no pre watching videos so was a great learning curve! Interesting watching fellow cars scampa away into the distance as was pushing my road tyres to the limit but to be fair they have seen 3 Track days and 4000 miles of road use so far so wear rate is minimal even if limited grip, but fun factor is massive. Can't wait to do some more next year with you guys!

@Hugh Trantergood to meet you last night. Take a look at the for sale add here, this fits your brief

No, you don't really need an external GPS with a decent phone in an open cockpit car. Here's some data of my new PB (1m50.5). Circuit map with min and max speeds. You can overlay a few parameters on the telematics trace but I use the following.... speed trace in blue, longitudinal g's (braking or acceleration) in green, lateral g's in pink. Below is the Craners down to the Old Hairpin... You can see down the Craners I'm hitting 105mph, lifting for Hollywood with 1.12 lateral g's at 95mph before accelerating back to 106mph. Then braking to 71mph (0.71g) for the Old Hairpin. Peak lateral g in the Old Hairpin is 1.84 as I'm accelerating through 77mph This next one is the straight through the Foggarty Esses. 116mph peak speed, braking at 0.85g. Lateral g in the left/right is 0.99g and then 1.60g before accelerating hard towards the hairpin up to about 105mph. Its interesting stuff... I noticed on previous visits I was often braking too early, releasing brake pressure before reapplying closer to the corner. As I've got more confident on the brakes I can now see a smoother longitudinal g trace.

Yes I am really disappointed I was not able to join the fun..it looks like another member of the Ford club being then would have been good, especially one driving on cheap caravan tyres! Hopefully next time I will be able to join or maybe we can do another day in October? 😁

Anybody use this? I’ve been having a butchers and it’s a powerful machine!

It has started to become an annual event for us in Derby & Notts to do a trackday our two so a bunch of us had booked the Opentrack Donington GP evening for the 1st September. We were all nervously weather watching all weekend as it looked like rain, thankfully we needn't have worried as we had amazing weather! Sadly @Steve Bosworth @Naranja_Al and @Glynn Walters couldn't make it so we ended up with five cars with 5 different engines..... @Tim Coles in his 280+bhp ecoboost engined SEIW @Nick Mucklow in his 185bhp Duratec Silva Striker. Nick had taken Glynn's spot at the last minute. @DanDB in his 200bhp Zetec SEIW @ben1975 in his 180bhp R1 MNR Vortex Myself in the MegaS2000 We also had a load of spectators, including Tony, Rachael, Iain, Hedley, Tim's son, and Jonny (my brother in law who had come for his first track experience). Great to see you all, and thanks for cheering us on! Waiting for the briefing, we were all surprised and delighted to see @Simon Waterfall Syman84 who had brought one of his BMW race cars for a shakedown before the next round at Croft this weekend. Simon has graduated from the Sprint Series, through MX5 racing and now is a multiple race winner in the BRSCC BMW 1 Series Supercup, I was looking forward to seeing the car on track! After the sighting laps, we sat out the first 10 mins and were amazed that there were no red flags.... time to get out on track! With Jonny strapped in my passenger seat, we all headed out slowly building up our pace. We spotted Ben on the grass at one point, thankfully was fine and had pulled off due to a sticky throttle. Thankfully, he made it back to the garage and was seconds to sort (debris under the pedal). Having a look at laptimes, I was pleased to see I'd managed to get into the 1m54's with two 16 stone blokes on board and a lot of traffic to pass. I'd been a little worried how Jonny would find the experience but he absolutely loved it, getting out of the car with rhe biggest of grins! My last (and first) time on the GP circuit two weeks ago had seen me get down to 1m52.6 running solo and felt I could improve on that... so I went out for a run without a passenger to really wring it's neck! A few laps later I headed in to check my times and was so pleased to see I'd managed a 1m50.5, much, much better. I think im going to need some tuition to get much quicker than that.... I had been running with and passing a couple of race winning Ginettas (a G40 from the 750MC roadsports and a stunning 60's G4R that has had many class wins in the HSCC and CSCC). The G4R in particular was amazingly fast and consistent, taking beautifully clean lines, he had far more talent than me! The other guys had also been charging round, getting in very quick laps in the 1m56 to 2m0 range, we had a great atmosphere in the garage 😂 Heading back out with Jonny riding shotgun again, we had only just got to Redgate when I saw Simon in the BMW 1 Series looming in the mirrors! I pulled aside to let him by, then set about chasing him down the Craners. It was amazing fun following him for a couple of laps, a fabulous opportunity for someone of my meagre talents to watch a pukka race driver's lines and braking points up close. We had a bit of traffic on occasion but were pushing hard when the track was clear. The memories of chasing him down the Craners at over 100mph, throwing the cars through the Foggy Esses, and then sideways trail braking into the hairpin are truly bucket list stuff 👌 Back in the pits and still buzzing, we were all comparing laptimes. Ben who had been lapping in the 1m56 bracket was pulling my leg about my Racechrono app being about 5 seconds optimistic vs his far more expensive AIM Solo he has fitted to the bike engined MNR 😂. Challenge accepted, we went out in tandem so he could follow me round and either prove or disprove the myth! With Ben clamped to the FW rear end, we charged round for a brilliant couple of laps through a bit of traffic before he got over enthusiastic on the power exiting from the Melbourne hairpin and had a harmless low speed spin.... it looked brilliant in the mirrors 😂 In the garage, we compared times and he had managed his personal best. My Racechrono app had me at 1m51.88, with his AIM Solo registering his lap at 1m51.79, result! It is amazing how closely matched his light bike engined car is to my heavier car engine over a lap. Nick, Dan and Tim had also been charging around, making the most of the fading light. Tim had swapped his new wheels/tyres for the R888R's he'd all but worn out on the hairpins of the Alps trip (his son had brought them in his daily), these were totally destroyed by the end of the day 😂 It was a fantastic evening, all cars ran faultlessly and everyone was safe, and all had a great time. Track etiquette was generally pretty good and we only had one red flag (the G40 had a gravel trap excursion). As always, you get some fantastic photos as a memento, here's a few I've downloaded and edited. Simon and Dan at the Old Hairpin Dan chasing Nick through Coppice Tim proudly displaying the 2024 Alps Peaky Blatters stickers on the side heading up from Mcleans Ben chasing me down the Craners on our 1m51.8 lap. Chasing down the beautiful (and very fast!!) Ginetta G4R through the Old Hairpin Heading down the Craners Using up the last of the sunshine! Simon looking focused! Tim and Dan at Coppice Nick pushing hard at the hairpin

While I can claim no credit for the build, I am now the proud owner of a 1995 Westfield SEiW with a long and storied history here in the US. From an early appearance in Road & Track in 1996, through its current configuration at the hands of its previous owner (JohnCh), this little red beauty has seen a lot of changes, and I'm in awe of all of them. The only thing I changed was adding the WA State Collector Car plates (due to its 30+ year age) to keep from having to re-license it every year. While I might make subtle changes over time, I'm having waaaay too much fun to even consider it currently.

Too late the algorithms have already captured you 😆

@ Naranja_Al has a topic going in the tech section

Aim to pass the IVA and not 'wing it'. It would be a shame to fail on such a simple/avoidable item. If with modifications, you can demonstrate they meet the viewing angles, you should be fine. My tester commented at the start that he likes testing Westfields as if you build them to the manual with the factory provided items they generally pass.

congrats on win 🥉 👍

It was awesome fun! The original photo looked like this, still beautiful but needed a bit of editing to get the full effect.

Sounds like you had a great evening. And this photo is 🥰

Enjoying the bank holiday sunshine.

One of the more “interesting” periods of the club’s history was illustrated in Westfield World magazine Feb/March 1992 where a member wrote up his detailed experience of changing the Pinto engine in his SEi to a Rover V8. It alarmed the factory so much that a meeting with the club was convened and a statement made in the April/May issue telling members not to do it in no uncertain terms. However, it did inspire the factory to do one them themselves. (Both issues available in the Downloads section above.)