Well, the results for the Mini1000 race series are in for round 1, and surprise surprise, I came in first with a lap time 1 minute and 55 seconds faster than anyone else out there!

Results
1st. Richard Appleby - 1:55.06

I did 1:55's and 1:56's all day. Just couldn't seem to put everything together on the same lap.

I installed a bike speedo into the car the day before and the fastest I went down the straight was 113 kmh. Incidently, on the way there, I thought I'd figure out exactly how fast the absolute top speed of my car was, seeing as there was no wind around... wait for it... it's really worth waiting for... one hundred and fifteen point one kilometres an hour. That's flat stick.

Where was everyone else?

I took some photos, none of me obviously, but a bunch of other minis.

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hmm interesting, how many minis were there

Well its good to see all that mini 1000 hype added up to nothing...

Good to see someone got their arse into gear. Some more top photos, i see. Nice work.

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Cheap, Fast, Reliable. Choose two.

well noone was organising it, there wasnt enough time to prepare cars, and noone knows the rules to build the cars to,
it should be called the run what you brung series,
anyway i plan to get out there this year

There were 6 minis out in all, 2 were Binis.

Incidently, Neil Turner pulled a 1:24 to start from 10th after practise. Not sure what he did in the end, but minis were representing.

Maxiumum Attack took some shots of me.





Look at that beast.

SOme good shot's ,is your's black or green , bit hard to tell in the shot's ? Also , what's the motor in the blue/white mini where the drivers sitting in the middle ?

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So how many people that said they where going to race actually got out there by the way was it just an open day at mallala or an actuall sactioned day.

Of the 10 people who said they would enter, exactly one was at the supersprint.

Everyone else was all talk, yet seem to have gone a bit quiet.

Not that I really care. I had a blast and I'll be back out again on the 9th of April to see if I can get under 1:55.

I was, by the end of the day, the slowest car out there, but also the only car with an engine under 1L.

my 998 could only reach 130km an hour..cracked piston i think might have been the cause.

new engine going in sooon

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1978 Leyland clubman S.
998cc

Still just an 'A' series. Supercharged, mind you. Full spaceframe, with the body channeled down over the subframe. AWESOME piece of kit, that one

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Cheap, Fast, Reliable. Choose two.

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bugger , drooled on the keyboard again ..... There are some seriously nice race mini's still getting around here , considering the age of them .

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Well firstly, I was under the impression that the first event was on March 18...... *edit - just did a search.... damn, first race March 5..... April it IS then *

Secondly..... still waiting for some engine parts to arrive and other parts to get machined..... AND until my engine is in the car, I cant fabricate the seat mounts/dash/switch panel.

But those are not the main reasons......

Work is closing for 4 weeks and I wont be getting paid. That means I need to save an extra 2500 bucks to pay for the bills in that month. No racing for me. Maybe next year.

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[NATHAN] -- Sold everything mini related and am back in big beautiful BMWs

Oh well.

And my car is green, not black. Its not British Racing Green and its not Lake Green, its somewhere in the middle.

Ok , it looked great on the track and a nice deep colour .

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