Final preparations are complete for the debut of our Mini Cooper S race car. The final stickers and badges have been fitted and we’ve made some improvements to the cooling since testing the other week. The car spent some time on the dyno and with modifications to the carburettors, profiling of needles and some ignition advance we’ve found 10.5bhp and increased the power band by nearly 800rpm.
Finally our Mini Cooper S is done and on track. We’ve built this Mini with major support from Mini Sport and other suppliers for a book we are writing. The final chapter of the book will cover testing and racing the car. We spent Tuesday down at Brands Hatch with Mini racing legend Bill Sollis shaking it down. The car will debut at the Brands Hatch Mini Festival on July 16th and 17th.
A great race day for David Moran in the Lotus Cortina who competed in both the CSCC’s Swinging 60’s and Classic K races winning his class along with Richard Ford and Stuart Bancroft in the TR4 who also won their class in Swinging 60’s
This weekend’s Equipe GTS race at Brands Hatch will be the first race of the season for the black Triumph TR4 of Dave Griffiths. The car is prepped and ready for it’s 15 minute qualification and two 30 minute races and with the little fine tuning we carried out it should be perform better this season. Come and say hello if you are at Brands Hatch this weekend.
Last weekend the HRDC was at Brands Hatch. We had 3 cars to run on Sunday 10th of April. Shaun’s son Charles raced his Lenham Le Mans, Ian Burford raced his Austin-Healey Sprite Lumbertubs and Larry Tucker raced his Ashley GT.
