Latest Pictures from Mini Meet 2009

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NCA ‘09 Gallery & Videos!

Nevada City Adventure 2009 Gallery!

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Funkhana Video!

Dyno Video!

More Minis From NCA 09 on Mini Mania’s facebook page!

Royal Mint Mini 50th Anniversary Coin

The Royal Mint has produced a cupro-nickel £5 coin to Brilliant Uncirculated standard – a higher quality of minting than the coins in your pocket – especially for the 50th anniversary of the Mini. The coin features on its reverse a side-view image of Sir Alec Issigonis’ classic Mini, created by David Cornell FRSA, FRBS, and is housed within an illustrated presentation folder.

The basic Brilliant Uncirculated £5 coin is £9.95 (approx. $14)
The Silver Proof coin is £44.95 (approx. $64)
The Gold Proof coin is £72.50 (approx. $103)
The four coin Silver set is £175.00 (approx. $249)
There is also a silver proof £10 coin which is £275.00 (approx. $390)

All are available from http://www.royalmint.com/Annex/Mini.aspx

God damn these bloody awful Bubble Cars!

“Leonard Lord, the somewhat autocratic head of BMC, reportedly decreed: ‘God damn these bloody awful Bubble Cars. We must drive them off the road by designing a proper miniature car’. ” – Wikipedia

Without the rise of the “bloody awful bubble car”, we might never have seen the birth of the Mini! This post is a tribute to the unsensible awfulness of the bubble car.

Messerschmitt KR175

even more Bubble Cars here.

Wine Country Classic Sign-Up!

Infineon Raceway is are offering REME and the Mini community a “PRIME” spot in the paddock area, like last year. They would like 40 MINI/Minis (20/20) if possible. Please note while the Porsches, Jaguars, Bentleys, BMWs, Audis, and the rest are parking on the hillside on gravel areas, our Minis will be front & center in the pits, on smooth pavement. We will be next to the food booths, bathrooms, and smack in the middle of all the great vintage racecars and drivers.

Let’s make an effort to get a LARGE group of Minis there. Please contact your freinds and let them know. We need to get as many classic Minis as possible.

We can purchase tickets from Infineon Raceway through Redwood Empire Mini Enthusiasts at a discounted price of $52 per person for a two-day pass which will includes our Mini corral in the paddock area. If we purchase a minimum of 20 tickets, we qualify for a Mini corral. The $52 price is per person, not per Mini. We would like to get 40 MINI/Minis, including at least 20 classics. We need your Paypal payment by May 15. Make Paypal payments to paypal@redwoodempiremini.com note Wine Country Classics on you payment.

Once we have met our minimum 20 tickets for the corral, individuals can purchase tickets directly

Retail tickets are $60 and can be purchased from the track or Ticketmaster.
Ticket master: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C00417AC3BC4AAA?artistid=1309992

Last year’s event pics here .

Loaded and Ready to Race

My son and I have now been accepted to race at this years Reno Historics Vintage Races.  We will be sharing the Monty Mini and thus have been accepted to run in groups 1 and 3.  Sure to be racing against a Corvette or two, we are now loaded and ready to go!

Monty Mini Cooper to race at Reno Historics

The famous Monty Mini Cooper from Mini Mania will be raced by the father and son team of Dennis and Don Racine at the annual Vintage races.

MINCOMP/Team Mini Mania 2009 racing season (so far!)

The 2009 SCCA National racing season is in full swing and the MINCOMP MINI has been out and running the SoPac events!  Due to the economics we all are facing this year, it was decided to run only the SoPac National races and not travel up, over and down chasing races in order to qualify for the SCCA National Runoff’s that beginning this year, have been moved from HPT-Topeka, Ks. to Road America-Elkhart Lake, Wis!

So, out plan is to run just the minimal amount of races required (4) that are close to home!  The main issue with this plan is that we will have to finish ALL 4 races…no wiggle room and no mistakes or things could get complicated…

Race #1 was in January on the road course at AAA Speedway (Cal Speedway-Fontana Ca.)  and everything went absolutely as planned, finished in 1st place with a win and our speed was good!

Race #2 was in February at good ole’ Willow Springs and again we had an absolutely wonderful and productive race weekend! We took another win, cool… we are half way towards our goal of 4 total!

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more details at: miniracing.minimania.com!