WSCC Speed Series is on Facebook!

[Scottish Bloke]

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

 

 

 

[tkm_dave]

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.

[John Loudon - Sponsorship Liaison]

Well done all. This should help raise the profile and gain interest

[Paul Aspden]

Nice one Rich.

[Barry S]

OK who knew I'd finally got my A** on Facebook!

[mark.anson]

Thanks for the support Rich in offering to admin the page.

Just what the Speed Series needs to raise the profile and get more folk spectating and competing

[Onliest Smeg David]

Well done Rich. The most 'likes' on the forum since 23rd Nov! 

And something that I'm sure will help promote SS.

One of the 'Myth' perceptions by the general membership I've had contact with is that you require exotica to compete. So this is something that imo needs tackling in encouraging newbies to start out in sprinting. A myth clearly not true as I feel I've done OK in a heavy Windscreened under-powered full on road-going Westfield that travels over 3000 miles a year. I'll post the 'Lardy One' to the page.

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

1 hour ago, Dave (OnliestSmeg) - Joint Manchester AO said:

Well done Rich. The most 'likes' on the forum since 23rd Nov! 

And something that I'm sure will help promote SS.

One of the 'Myth' perceptions by the general membership I've had contact with is that you require exotica to compete. So this is something that imo needs tackling in encouraging newbies to start out in sprinting. A myth clearly not true as I feel I've done OK in a heavy Windscreened under-powered full on road-going Westfield that travels over 3000 miles a year. I'll post the 'Lardy One' to the page.

Absolutely Dave, you've done really well with a realtively standard car, more improtantly you have had brilliant fun. The more people competing in cars like yours the better. So the more out there the better.

 

Oh and Rich has done a cracking job so far on Facebook. Keep up the good work.

[Scottish Bloke]

When you've been trying to figure out why you cannot reply to your own topic, then realised your membership has expired 

Great response to the Facebook page, thanks for the content. At this point in the closed season it's all about building interest and having a bit of fun. We now have 150 followers, up from 24 so a great start. Whilst I could probably fill the page for the next 3 months just with content from my phone, I'd actively encourage others to post content too. Speed Series, sprint, hillclimbing related would be fantabulouus!

Happy Boxing Day, And don't forget to add your interested friends to the page!

Rich

[Onliest Smeg David]

 good one @Scottish Bloke

Just posted to FB page, but they're not appearing???

[Scottish Bloke]

I can see it..pic of you at Anglesey? Click on new post  button

[Scottish Bloke]

 

Click here, that should sort it!

Edited December 26, 2016 by Scottish Bloke

[Onliest Smeg David]

Aha! Worked it out (don't see what you see!)..... They're in 'visitor posts' for me.

Shame not all posts visibility in main page.

[Scottish Bloke]

Yeah, not entirely sure why this is doing this. I've been looking at page settings but cannot find a way to change the feed. 

Maybe Panda could take a look, you may have more rights as page creator?

@John Williams - WSCC Competition Secretary

[Barry S]

Hi Rich

This is why I was asking if I had joined as I spent ages looking for the join group button so it would drop on my homepage with link etc

Eventually put it down to being FB numptiness on my part anyhow I'm sure John can sort it

Top job setting up and driving this btw 

Cheers

Barry