Stef Schrader

Luis Perocarpi’s lifelong dream was to own a racing team. He likes making cars get faster. Fortunately for Mini owners everywhere, what he does makes street cars faster too, because his team isn’t just a racing team. All the performance-enhancing parts they use on the race cars have to be publicly available for owners to buy.

[Full disclosure: We hung out with the LAP Motorsports team when they raced at Circuit of the Americas, and the team picked up the tab at dinner.]

“When I was a kid, I wanted to work for a car manufacturer and I wanted to make cars go faster,” Perocarpi, the founder of LAP Motorsports, told Jalopnik. He considers this dream fulfilled at this point, especially considering that he raced classic Minis when he was younger.

Unlike the more purpose-built cars in other series, Perocarpi’s team focuses on using items available to the general public—and developing parts for Mini-driving track rats everywhere to buy.

More to read and tasty photos can be found at Jalopnik...

 

Great guy and nice article.

 

and they do that on stock brakes, I wonder how much has to be turned off in ncsexpert on these newer cars, it took years before they figured out what all to turn off on my 135i ecu does crazy things limiting torque

 

This is a great article. Running stock class will certainly build confidence in the general public.

 

NAM should put this in the News section on the front page of the site as it is a good little article that's MINI related.

 

Here is an awesome shot.