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Good morning Guys and Gals, There has been much talk over the past two or three years in relation to the number of people competing in Motorsport, and that includes our prestigious Speed Series Championship. There are many reasons for this including financial crashes, MSA rule changes and dare I say it our own successes. We now have a record number of events to choose from, and clearly we cannot attend them all! My intention in helping run the Speed Series Facebook page is to capture the moment of SS, add the fun factor back in and generally promote what we do and why we love it. The more people that can see this the better chance we have of promoting new competitors, spectators and who knows maybe even future Champions! So who am I? For those who don't know, I'm Richard Kerr (Scottish Bloke) and have been around the club and Westfield's for around 15 years. My passion for the sunburst started a little before this and due to a change in circumstances I was able to buy my first Westfield in 2003. Having joined our local club and meeting Nick (Algar) the rest is history. I started competing in the Speed Series the following year in a very tidy red narrow body car. Within several events I managed to win the class I was in and graduated to a more powerful car, very long and expensive story short, the Speed Series Bug had bitten. (I blame Nick) I have been lucky enough to compete at a reasonable level every year since and still regard my Championship win in 2009 as one of my finest life achievements and something I'm incredibly proud of. Speed Series has been a huge part of my life and is somewhere I have met the majority of the people I call my closest friends. I personally feel that promotion via Facebook will help greatly in promoting our series to a much wider audience. It'll be a place where you can post pics and videos from events 'as they happen' straight from your phone. Whilst we can do some of these things on the boardroom, we are only alerting SS competitors or boardroom members and the 'instant hit' capturing the moment isn't possible. The SS FB page will be monitored and administrated by myself and other boardroom officials, who are all very keen to keep the page SS focused and in no way should detract from boardroom activity. Posts that are not relevant will be removed. Boardroom will remain the place for rules, MSA changes, Results, Tel's Tales, target times or raise Technical Queries, this must be done through the correct channels on the boardroom as is done currently. Over the next few days you may receive an invite from me to join the page, or by all means add yourself. Please remember, this is a Speed Series page, photos of your Christmas dinner, your dog stuck in the chimney after chasing Santa, or granny's teeth in the custard jug may be tolerated but Speed Series Chat fun and banter in the main please. Please drop me a PM with any ideas you have to include on the page, I'll probably start things off with a Driver/car bio and take things from there building the page and the audience. Merry Speed Series Christmas and an Upgragey New Year Find us here https://www.facebook.com/WSCCSpeedSeries/ Rich

See things are moving in the right direction. All the items I requested from Westfield were not in stock but bought in. Westfield listened to my requests responded and beat the stated waiting/build times all items received in time for the xmas break. Super job.....

YES Rich! Top man, definitely something that can only boost interest in and coverage of the Speed Series. I know there's a couple of prolific taggers and posters out there who'll now have a place to make extra use of their social media material throughout sprint events etc.

Not my daily.. but a few years ago at an Elvington track day.

I'm currently getting an Invisi-rad

Good news we we are all done now until the 3rd - phew we made it through 2016

Don't believe you unless you post a picture of the rad ......................... oh................

Because I've travelled a fair bit (both for work and pleasure) I get asked this question a fair few times, but I struggle to give a 'best place and why' answer. Cities, forests, mountains, seas, deserts; all of these can provide so many experiences and memories. It's in the seas that I'm at my happiest, but even then I'm hard pushed to decide which sea is the 'best' as they are all so different. I've had great times under tropical waters (as you'd expect), but even under ice can provide unforgettable experiences. So I can't make any positive contribution to the where and why, but one thing I can say is that no matter how much you've enjoyed a certain place there'll always be others that will beat it for the top choice! R

Oh there's more, much more but i didn't want to boast Once we got past 55 we decided we wouldn't put anything off, cos you never know when ill health will stop you in your tracks.

I can't afford it. If you want me to intercept Steve on his route to NEC, I don't mind getting the seat for you and you can pick it up from me (Chesterfield / Worksop)

Speaking of diving - did some Cenote diving in Mexico at Dos Ojos - that was pretty memorable. That part of Mexico is also one one my favourite holiday locations.

Those from Barny would go well at the top of your Christmas Indicator Pod Tree Sculpture

All ordered with the lovely Lauren ( I think LOL) for delivery in the new year, so thats all good. Thanks Cleggy Oh, its arrived before Chrimble !!! Thanks , now stuffed in the car

Get them sent to me and I'll forward them on if you like. I'll post to France for a very reasonable £23. Seriously though, happy to do it, i'd be very surprised if its any more than £10.

BIG THANK YOU To Clarke for all he does Merchandisewise for our club. Mine's ordered for new year.

It's funny how we are all different. There are a few on here that I would list on my 10 places you have visited that you wouldn't rush to return to !!

Eek, no internet and WSCC Paul? How's that a holiday?

Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat, Great Barrier Reef. Off to New York in February hopefully so glad to see it on the above replies. Would really like to go on a Safari in Kenya too in the near future.

Welcome another Sandbach Westfield enthusiast. Drop me a pm where you are in town, you could be just down my street! Andy

Having spent from 10am to 8pm on Sunday at legoland I've had enough.... hope Father Christmas brings no more Lego.

Only if he pushes it round where he lives currently

That explains the smug look on your face. And I thought it was because you'd just been for a blat in the Westie

Switzerland does it for me. The Bernese Oberland. This is the North Face of the Eiger which has a fascinating history as in the past climbers have died trying to reach it's summit. If you go there Russ, try and go on The Glacier Express, which is a train journey that takes you right through Switzerland's very stunning scenery. July is a good month to go and it is only 1.5 hour flight from Birmingham. The chocolate isn't bad over there too.

Well.............. there was this girl once ...........................

If you can still read the number plate, it's not dirty.

As the developer is ORBIT HOMES maybe this is going to be a space station

Good Lord Man, there's probably something else you should consider avoiding before actually going out into the real world