Of the tracks I've been too, this is my favorite.

 

My home track!

I've done many many events there and I agree it is a terrific track to drive, especially in a MINI!

For an Audi weekend, what were all those Porsches doing there?

I missed it this year as I was on the Black Hills run.......

Oh, try a couple layers of duct tape over the mic next time, it will blunt the wind noise considerably.

You had a pretty good line thru the corners, but I usually start the uphill left onto the back straight in second, and shift to third before the turn - but you have to have a good, stiff rear swaybar to keep from having wheel spin coming out of the turns at low speed
in second. I'm also in second coming onto the main straight...........

Did you lift off the gas going over the hump on the front straight? Most people do.......

 

There were actually quite a few Audis and everyone who was there are Audi Club members (including me).

Regarding the sound, I bought a new camera from Gopro.com so hopefully I'll have better sound next time.

I tried going into 2nd where you do and it wasn't getting me much more speed.

I do lift... Right at the last second before I get to the top of Alpha 0. I also found that not braking so much into turn 1 I could get some good speed through 2 and 3.

 

Turn 6: Scrub more speed in the brake zone, downshift to 2nd, turn in earlier and dive down into it, get on throttle about 8 feet before the apex (yes, really), and power up the hill shifting to 3rd right before turn-in to 7. You will carry significantly more speed out of that complex.

 

I've ridden with MiniJayhawk in his MINI at HPT and he's right, that's the way to do that turn. It takes a bit of practice, but shifting right before you bend left at the top is the right way to do it. Of course, it's all different now in my auto trans Clubby, all the shiftpoints are different due to the gearing ......

The other thing I always have to remember and work on is to get your eyes up! Imagine a line about halfway up your windshield and always try to be looking above that line.

It takes a bit of practice to hold your foot down over the crest of the hill on the main straight, but the brakes on the MINI are so good that you can go clear down to about the 100 marker and still get whoa'd up in plenty of time. I've seen 115 in my '03 JCW doing it that way..........

I forgot the newer cars are geared differently than my '03, third might be the better way for you coming onto the main straight. The '03 is geared so tall it's off the power band in 3rd there.....

 

Always looking ahead . . .
Always looking ahead . . .
Always looking ahead . . .
Always looking ahead . . .
Always looking ahead . . .
Always looking ahead . . .
Always looking ahead . . .

You can't doi anything about where you are, but you can do something about where you are going. That, and the fact your hands will naturally do what it takes to go where you are looking. That is why most people say they were looking right at the thing they struck when they got in a one-car accident.

And regarding the last turn before the straight -- it is like turn 6. Give it up a little to ensure turn in, downshift to 2nd, and get on the throttle earlier for good exit speed. If you "momentum" through that last left-hander, you will be fighting it going onto the main straight rather than being on the throttle. By the end of the straight at the top of Alpha Zero, you will notice the difference.