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This news comes via Bill Lawrence and the MINI Motoring Club of the Carolinas:
The MINI Driving School, the most effective and economical upgrade your MINI can get!
As a MINI driver, you have bragging rights on driving one of the best handling cars on the planet. It really is difficult (and expensive) to make it handle a whole lot better. There is one element of your car which can make your car handle the curves faster and safer: THE DRIVER. Proper technique can upgrade the handling more profoundly than anything you can bolt on to your MINI.
This September, there will be a driving course just for us. It will specialize in teaching us to safely mash the gas in our MINI Coopers! Most driving schools provide rear wheel drive cars as a classroom, which handle differently and require somewhat different technique than your Cooper.
A group of your fellow MINI drivers in the Carolina's acknowledged that there should be a driving course just for MINI Coopers. For the first time, there will be a high performance driving course just for YOU, the MINI driver!
The instructors from the BMW Performance Center are going to put on a driving school for MINI Coopers on the infield sprint road course at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina. You will receive hands-on, in-car training from the knowledgeable instructors and then you will be given several laps to go full throttle and see how much you really learned. Electronic timing will keep track of how much you learned. The instruction will be customized for each driver's ability. You will get to drive between 6-12 laps around the sprint track. We are limiting this event to 40 drivers and there are already 17 spots taken, so you better jump on this!
When: September 21, 2003
Where: Lowe's Motor Speedway
Cost: $150 per participating driver
Cost Includes: track rental, liability insurance*, ambulance*, fire truck*, security*, track staff*, 2 instructors, timing equipment, lunch, snacks, refreshments and t-shirt.*denotes items that are required by Lowe's Motor Speedway to hold an event
A $50 per driver deposit is required to hold your spot at this event. So send you check as soon as you can, so you don't miss out on this educational and very fun event!
Please Send Deposit (or whole payment) to:
MINI Motoring Club of the Carolinas
PO Box 16301
Greenville, SC 29606Please note what participant you are paying for (you, and/or your spouse) and how much you are paying toward each.
Please let me know if you have any questions!
at willybl@charter.net or blawrence@blueridgecouncil.org
This sounds like it'll be an absolutely fantastic time. Bill tells me that 17 of 40 spots are already taken so for those who are interested you may want to reserve a spot sooner rather than later.
<p>i'd love to go. quite a drive for me, though.</p>
<p>if i wasn't getting married that following weekend i'd be all over it.</p>
<p>for $150 let me know if anyone is making the trip with a few other MINI's!
MINI people are just SO cool! :D</p>
<p>gabe, perhaps we at the MINI Motoring Club of Chicago should enter negotiations with the carolina club to see if we can organize a similar mid-west driving experience.</p>
<p>I would love to have something like this in Chicago. There is an instructor in St. Louis who runs schools like this. We could possibly approach him and see what it would cost to get him up here and rent out a track of some kind. Should we aim for next spring?</p>
<p>This would be nice Gabe. :)</p>
<p>Amen to getting Midwest instruction. There are a lot of tracks in the Chicago area. South Carolina is about a twenty-two hour drive from here.</p>
<p>Will any Minis be available for people who fly in and won’t have cars?</p>