Mini Classic pre ’66 Series – 2013 Schedule and Entry Form
There is a new Historic race series in France (with one round in Brands Hatch) fully dedicate to Historic “pre-66 Mini” since several years. This is the unique “only pre-66” in the world and its name is “Mini Classic” After an exceptional 2012 season with…
Paul Swift at Ken Wharton Memorial Autotest
You may remember a recent Blog Post about Paul Swifts Autotest Mini of which visited Mini Sport a few weeks ago in preparation for the Ken Wharton Memorial Autotest. We built and fitted a new engine before tuning it on our Rolling Road. The international event…
Mini Se7en Update – Croft
Well the 2012 season has flown by with some highs and lows for Team AL Motorsport. It is the last round of the 2012 calendar, and it brings us to the lovely circuit of Croft near Darlington. With it being the end of September the…
Paul Swift Autotest Mini at Mini Sport
Paul Swift is a seven-time British Motorsport Champion and a multiple Guinness World Record holder. He began performing stunts on the family ride on lawn mower back in 1986 at the tender age of seven. Following in the footsteps of his legendary stunt driving father…
Mighty Mini – Snetterton
After the build up to the Mini Grand race the last thing I needed was 4 days (as it was a Bank Holiday) to get my car and to rebuild Justin’s Mini Sport car back into a Mighty Mini, but I had to, so I…
Mini Grand 24 Hour Race at Snetterton
Snetterton Mini Grand 24 hour race We (Jonathan Lewis and Justin Cooper) had been asked if we would like to build up a car for the first ever Mini Grand 24 Hour Race by Andy Slade, who is Mighty Mini Champion Chris Slades Dad. It…
Mini Se7en Update – Thruxton
Qualifying Well it is back to the now annual return to Thruxton at the CMSA event. With good weather predicted, it should be a great weekends racing. On arrival, Friday, we spotted a problem with car 44 front shocks, seemingly the near side front seems…
Mighty Mini Update – Silverstone
Silvertsone, what a weekend! Justin and I had done a lot of work on both our cars since Rockingham to try and get the handling of both the cars spot on for the double header at Silverstone, we took Justins’ car to Snetterton to test a…
Mini Se7en Update – Snetterton
Well it is round 7 and 8 that brings us to the Norfolk circuit of Snetterton. This is a new and longer version of the popular Snetterton 200 (2 miles) track and goes by the catchy name of Snetterton 300 (3 miles)…..simple hey! With none…
Mighty Mini Update – Rockingham
I was looking forward to Rockingham as I love the way the Bailey/Mini Sport car is at the moment “It’s a joy to drive a car that’s on the pace day in day out”. Justin my teammate in the MiniSport 4 car has got a…