This month saw us with a massive honour.During the build up to Speedweek 2022 and 2023 we were in regular communication with a photo-journalist called Chris Tarling. Chris has been a long time friend and supporter of the project and he asked permission to write a story about our project. His plan was to try and
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Historically, January is a quiet time for the project. We tend to use this time to attempt to raise funds or support accompanied with some light ‘fettling’ to the car as the weather allows. This year of course, the car is still in California so our work options are severely limited. As mentioned in previous
We’re going to start this update with a huge thank you to you. A project on this scale involves a lot of time standing in a really cold garage, either one or two of you contorting yourself into some bizarre position. Inevitably during these cold hours you can’t help but wonder whether you’re ever going
2023 was by far and away the busiest year for the team so far. Not so much in the hard work that goes into preparing this sort of vehicle but in travelling and finally getting racing. Following various successes and failures whilst running at Elvington in North Yorkshire UK the car entered the winter all
As this is being written, it’s very much the morning after the night before. We have just arrived at our team member Bruce’s house in San Diego, after an extreme weekend at El Mirage dry lake bed. What an amazing place! Despite being organised and run brilliantly by the same people as Bonneville speed week
This particular update is being written by our driver Ian, for reasons that will soon become apparent. Hello everyone, please forgive me, but this is an update that is very dear to my heart and I’m going to be a little self indulgent. It’s safe to assume that most of you did not have the
Almost inevitably the last month has been very quiet for the team here at WFJ towers. With the car and the bikes left in California, other than a little bit of tidying up and quite a bit of jet lag to recover from, there really is very little to do. This of course has given
Please allow us to start this update with an introduction to the two newest members of our team. Our regular readers will have noticed our regular footers regarding the people and places we have been. This year was no exception and we were honoured to get to know two exceptional gentlemen. Rich Stratford a long
We really thought we were onto a winner this year. We had the car (and bikes) shipped out in good time. Although it was a little last minute we managed to get the engine in and running. We drove across western America in a late night dash to be at Bonneville Salt Flats in plenty
We left you in a state of pent up excitement as the car required some small adaptations for tech inspection and the track was under water. Tuesday dawned bright. hot and sunny after a very breezy night. Throughout the night the weather had pushed all of the water from the entrance to the salt into
After the rain delays of the last few days, the weather has been kind and the salt has been (slowly) drying out. As a result the SCTA have allowed us onto the salt. For both Ian, Bruce’s engine builder buddy Rich and the other motorcycle riders (Andy and Steve) this was their first opportunity to
We have finally made it to Bonneville. After some mad last minute rushing about and a 13 hour drive across some beautiful parts of America. Unfortunately, there was some rain on Wednesday night which has given the course a proper soaking. This has led to a delay to the start of the event. The excellent