Come On 1000!!
Just coming up for Saturday and part of Sunday- will that be fun enough?
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But this is the time of year when folks go "Oh crap! I can't make it!" and cancel registration, and all the Procrastinators (you know who you are, but aren't willing to admit it until tomorrow) say "Oh Crap, have to register!"
Let's do some math, shall we?
Mini sales are about 59% hatchback + convertible (~146" long), about 12% Clubman @ ~155", and about 28% Countryman @ ~162". Yeah, proportionally there will be fewer Countryman at MOTD than 28%, but many of the others have driving lamps and trailer hitches, and we won't get that close to each other, so let's agree on an average length of about 12.5 feet (150").
If EVERY MINI participated in Midnight On The Dragon, leaving an average 2 second gap between cars and all traveling at exactly 35MPH, the first car will reach the Overlook - ON THEIR WAY BACK - before the last car leaves Deals Gap.
The line will be over 14 MILES long.
Another way, if we parked 'em nose-to-tail, it would require a parking space 1.6 miles long. If we parked 'em as densely as we could, we'd cover every square foot of the playing area of a football field, with the running track packed with Minis parked nose-to-tail around the outer perimeter, with a few MORE in the end-zones full of cheerleaders!
Atsa lotta Minis.
(and if my math's wrong, I apologize... Minis are 12.5' long on average, 35MPH is about 51 feet/second so a 2 second gap is 102', the Dragon is just over 11 miles, and you know the conversion from feet to miles...)
Mini sales are about 59% hatchback + convertible (~146" long), about 12% Clubman @ ~155", and about 28% Countryman @ ~162". Yeah, proportionally there will be fewer Countryman at MOTD than 28%, but many of the others have driving lamps and trailer hitches, and we won't get that close to each other, so let's agree on an average length of about 12.5 feet (150").
If EVERY MINI participated in Midnight On The Dragon, leaving an average 2 second gap between cars and all traveling at exactly 35MPH, the first car will reach the Overlook - ON THEIR WAY BACK - before the last car leaves Deals Gap.
The line will be over 14 MILES long.
Another way, if we parked 'em nose-to-tail, it would require a parking space 1.6 miles long. If we parked 'em as densely as we could, we'd cover every square foot of the playing area of a football field, with the running track packed with Minis parked nose-to-tail around the outer perimeter, with a few MORE in the end-zones full of cheerleaders!
Atsa lotta Minis.
(and if my math's wrong, I apologize... Minis are 12.5' long on average, 35MPH is about 51 feet/second so a 2 second gap is 102', the Dragon is just over 11 miles, and you know the conversion from feet to miles...)
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Let's do some math, shall we?
Mini sales are about 59% hatchback + convertible (~146" long), about 12% Clubman @ ~155", and about 28% Countryman @ ~162". Yeah, proportionally there will be fewer Countryman at MOTD than 28%, but many of the others have driving lamps and trailer hitches, and we won't get that close to each other, so let's agree on an average length of about 12.5 feet (150").
If EVERY MINI participated in Midnight On The Dragon, leaving an average 2 second gap between cars and all traveling at exactly 35MPH, the first car will reach the Overlook - ON THEIR WAY BACK - before the last car leaves Deals Gap.
The line will be over 14 MILES long.
Another way, if we parked 'em nose-to-tail, it would require a parking space 1.6 miles long. If we parked 'em as densely as we could, we'd cover every square foot of the playing area of a football field, with the running track packed with Minis parked nose-to-tail around the outer perimeter, with a few MORE in the end-zones full of cheerleaders!
Atsa lotta Minis.
(and if my math's wrong, I apologize... Minis are 12.5' long on average, 35MPH is about 51 feet/second so a 2 second gap is 102', the Dragon is just over 11 miles, and you know the conversion from feet to miles...)
Mini sales are about 59% hatchback + convertible (~146" long), about 12% Clubman @ ~155", and about 28% Countryman @ ~162". Yeah, proportionally there will be fewer Countryman at MOTD than 28%, but many of the others have driving lamps and trailer hitches, and we won't get that close to each other, so let's agree on an average length of about 12.5 feet (150").
If EVERY MINI participated in Midnight On The Dragon, leaving an average 2 second gap between cars and all traveling at exactly 35MPH, the first car will reach the Overlook - ON THEIR WAY BACK - before the last car leaves Deals Gap.
The line will be over 14 MILES long.
Another way, if we parked 'em nose-to-tail, it would require a parking space 1.6 miles long. If we parked 'em as densely as we could, we'd cover every square foot of the playing area of a football field, with the running track packed with Minis parked nose-to-tail around the outer perimeter, with a few MORE in the end-zones full of cheerleaders!
Atsa lotta Minis.
(and if my math's wrong, I apologize... Minis are 12.5' long on average, 35MPH is about 51 feet/second so a 2 second gap is 102', the Dragon is just over 11 miles, and you know the conversion from feet to miles...)
