They lowered the record to a 2.09.5 and 5 cars were running under the old record and 2 of them had A series and Charlie Borg in his Honda powered car finally broke his times set in his old A series car

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Roundies and Clubbies(except vans) are both ugly that is why I have Midas and a van
1293 Mini Midas Bronze,1275 Clubman van

here is a brief report for those interested

MRA Opener at Wakefield Park.


The Mini Racing Association?s 2006 season started with lap records broken in qualifying & the first two races. Even the third race had four cars under the existing lap record set by Warwick Agustin last year. The final fun race also had three cars under the existing lap record even though it was a fun event.



We had nineteen Mini?s on the grid which totalled more that the other two categories combined so fellows well done once again.



Race one was a hard charge by Charlie & Tim until Charlie ran into a suspension problem which caused him to slow up. Chris Adlam was second outright and 1st in Class C & boy has that car got some get up & go for a ten inch wheeled iron head. Greg Hewson was third outright & as a new comer to the series but an old hand at Mini racing, Greg did very well for someone still learning the track. John Walker was fourth & Allan Ross ran fifth.



Race two was a Charlie affair but Tim kept him honest for the five laps with Greg coming third & getting faster as he was coming to grips with the track. Chris wasn?t going to let Greg get it all his own way and kept the pressure on to claim 4th. John Walker was fifth (2nd in Class), Robert Bell sixth & Warwick seventh after starting last on the grid due to head gasket blowing in Qualifying.



Race three saw Charlie get a comfortable lead till the last two laps before his brakes went off & on the last corner of the last lap Greg had a lunge under brakes but Charlie wasn?t going to give in easily & out braked himself. Greg went through but was too busy watching Charlie go off & went of as well before following Chris Adlam to the line who won the trophy race outright in his Class C mini. Third went to Warwick & Charlie regathered to finish Fourth. John Walker was again 2nd in class but fifth outright, with Allan Ross sixth followed by Dennis Walker after finally overcoming brake problems that kept him out of the first two races.



Race four was the reverse grid handicap race (yes I know racing a Mini is a handicap but this was a timed handicap). Charlie & Warwick charged from the rear of the grid with Greg hounding them all the way for third & Allan Ross fourth & his best result with Wade Thomas finishing fifth. Wade was by far the most consistent competitor all weekend & a well done effort on his part. The hard luck story of the weekend goes to John Mallam & Sir Peter Wilson. John developed a severe oil leak in qualifying to sideline him all weekend & Sir Peter had a fuel starvation problem that developed also in qualifying & even though he started the three point score races he never finished them. The biggest smile award for the weekend must once again go to Rocky Canto, even though he had clutch problems he still managed to finish every race for maximum points in his class.



Winton Raceway approached me on Friday to resurrect the Doug Byrne Memorial. The meeting will be on the 2nd & 3rd of December and is now a definite on our calendar. It will not be a MRA pointscore round. I have thirteen confirmed starters from NSW & I expect around ten from VIC & two more from QLD. We are looking for more so anyone that wasn?t at the race meeting that wants to go please contact me & I?ll put you on the list. For any of you who doesn?t know who Doug Byrne was, well he was a Mini hard charger from Victoria who loved racing at Winton & died at the track from a heart attack in 1984. Winton started the perpetual race that year, won by Steve Evans, and it was run every year up till around 1994.



Our next round is at Wakefield Park on the 25th of June so see you all there.







Regards,
Brian Walden.

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Roundies and Clubbies(except vans) are both ugly that is why I have Midas and a van
1293 Mini Midas Bronze,1275 Clubman van

Saw an interesting article in this week's Auto Action titled Tactors Pull A Crowd, on the minis at Wakefield Park on 4 Feb 06, along with a pic of the cars on the grid, lovely, no chance of some more vision is there, especially the little red and white clubby on the second row - please.

Regards
Seahag

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On a mission for Mister Bridger

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Following email sent to Brian Waldrens mailing list:

Hi all just a bit of important news. The MRA now has its own web page www.miniracingaustralia.com so have a look & see what you think. I will be looking forward to your thoughts on the site wether it's suggestions praise or criticism (especially the praise). We will be constantly changing the web site over the next couple of months so please keep checking in to see the changes. We will be seeking driver profiles from all of you to add to the site shortly.



Regards
Brian Walden


Mini Racing Australia
8-10 Warren Place Silverdale,
New South Wales 2752

Mobile: (02) 400 157 650
Ph: (02) 4774 2633
Fax: (02) 4774 2688
Email: [email protected]

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"Show me the Mini!"

Seahag the Mini you are talking about is owned by Greg Hewson from Victoeia & has a 1293 Arden crossflow engine. Greg has owned the car for over fifteen years.

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Peter & Shannon
Jennings for "there foresight" and commitment to our Mini series.

As of the next round in June all competitors will have to run a windscreen
bands with our new sponsor's name JENNINGS Machinery Glass. For all of you
competitors that have your windscreen numbers up the top of the left hand
side of the windscreen could you pleas move them down 110 mil from the top
of the screen to allow for the sponsors band

Regards
Brian Walden

Mini Racing Australia
8-10 Warren Place Silverdale,
New South Wales 2752

Mobile: (02) 400 157 650
Ph: (02) 4774 2633
Fax: (02) 4774 2688
Email: [email protected]

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Brian and Mike...Great to see we have a Mini NSW racing comp. I would love to see this comp grow stronger and stronger and can only hope we culd get some ne up here t have a run as I'd love t be a pit crew

I do have two comments about the site..
Gallery would be better it it could be full screen and
details about up and comming races, Its great t know the next race will be n the 25th June but where.
Must say you will get a good turn out if we could get some races at Eastern creek or Oran park..but I'm thinking it will always be down at Wakefield
..bugger

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gafmo thanks for your imput & I will add more info about our next races. The web site has a restriction on how much space we can use so that is the reason why the gallery is smaller & to answer your last question we do not race under CAMS so hence we can only race at Wakefield & Winton.

Brian....add the website to your profile and maybe copy it to your signature at the same time.....it pays to advertise

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WINTON that's just up the road from me, will there be minis racing there?

Wakfield it is then...hmm I wonder if I can get some shop-a-dockets for accom


I don't like you Tim

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What did I do!

You live near Winton..thats all

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OH.

Does this mean there's lots of mini races at Winton?

The Mini's will be at Winton on the 2nd of December for the Doug Byrne Memorial.
We are expecting in excess of twenty five cars.