Real Mini Racing at The Goodwood Revival
There is nothing like seeing MINIs on the track. Unless of course you can watch Minis. This year the Good Revival featured Mini as its “featured marque” and held a very special race that was televised on itv in the UK. While the overall video (around 5 minutes long) is impressive enough, the in car footage after the jump are even more fascinating.
Courtesy of Andrei
<p>Mini 101:
” . . . you just keep your foot down and you keep steering and you’re back on the tarmac.”</p>
<p>That oozed awesome!!!!</p>
<p>Fantastic – I can’t wait for the drive home! :-)</p>
<p>That’s the way it’s supposed to be! Nice! Thank you!</p>
<p>Outstanding racing among a stellar field of drivers with some exciting overtaking maneuvers and saves! Love the light back ends of those classic Minis skating around the high speed corners of Goodwood.</p>
<p>That made my lunchbreak! That car sounded like a beast.</p>
<p>Ooooh, they look so cute doing 100, <i>and</i> they can pull a full gee in the corners! wow.</p>
<p>THAT was intense. reminds me of a mini bike race.
6 or7 old XR75’s? oh yeah, same kinda racing</p>
<p>Simply awesome!</p>
<p>Absolute brilliant!!! No “drive by wire”; only
“drive by foot”!!!</p>
<p>Bugs on the windscreen…just like my MINI!</p>
<p>An exhilarating ride. Easy to see how one can get addicted to it. Thanks much!</p>
<p>I’ve never seen Mini racing like that, and I was truly impressed. I noticed friend of MotoringFile Rauno Aaltonen finished in a respectable 4th place. Surprised the commentators never once mentioned the famous rally driver’s name…</p>
<p>Loved the part where they were running 3 Minis wide, flat-out!</p>
<p>Brilliant!</p>
<p>Any details on how the cars were prepared?
Did they use a batch of repro Mk1 shells?
What a sweet sounding motor – must be pulling close to 7500 revs. Ahhhh Longmans song!</p>
<p>What kind of tires did those Mini have? Regular street tires or slicks?</p>
<p>What a hoot… I don’t need no stinkin video game… I own a Mini Cooper S :-)</p>