OK we had a good Mini turn out today at the Miata AutoX. The last one is a few weeks off and I wanted to remind everybody about it. Cooper is going to get his car alligned so that his times get better than this week

If we could get a couple 07 Mini's and some old farts there that would be perfect.

 

Once you learned the course you had some smooth quick runs today Sean. I pulled off a mid 46, but most of my runs were in the 48's today. Your 48.80 in a MC with 17" S Lites with runflats makes me think to myself, "Was it worth putting all that junk on my car?" But I don't want to put all the blame on the car, I know its mostly the driver. Anyway I definitley like the new sporty look of your MC with the 17" S lites.

I also wish that some of the old farts, especially Chick Mini, would show up and have some fun with all of us for the last autocross of the season. I believe the other Sean in the 2003 IB/W MCS was also a little disappointed in his MCS today; I believe his times were almost identical to mine, but we were expecting to be in the low to mid 45 second range...

I am uploading some of the photos from today's autox so expect a link later.

Finally, for the next autox I will have fresh ATE Superblue brake fluid, my car lowered 2.5 inches in front, .75" in the rear, new allignment, and corner balanced with me in it. After all that, I will really have no excuses left for not being the fastest Mini out there, except driver error.

 

Cooper, I'll mark that down on my calendar.

 

Ohh Cooper it is Allen not Sean. Normally I would not be picky, but that 48.8 was insanly fast and I very much want the credit for that

 

Allen, has cooper driven your car yet? It's peerage of the PepperWhite for him

 

I'd like to get in an ATX this year if I can...

 

OMG Allen IDK why I called you Sean! I'm really sorry.

 

No worries. If you call me Sean next time and I get good times then you can just call me Sean on AutoX days

And Cooper has not driven my car, he is more of an S kinda guy. I did ride around the track with him once and his car has some mad mid-high end pull.

 

Bumpity bump. Just a reminder that the last Miata AutoX of the year is next Sunday Sunday Sunday at the Historical Society. Be there or be square!

 

Those who did not come missed out!!!! 12 runs and David in his red S had FTD by half a second on his last run!!!!

But the BIGGEST news, Cooper let someone drive HIS car and he didn't even drive anybody else's

 

The biggest news is that a fellow Mini had the FTD...

My car is about to get a little overhaul before next season...

Also, it was really fun driving fast in the rain today. I really enjoyed hitting the 2 inch deep puddles in 1st gear WOT and making a cloud of water shoot up around the car.

 

I didn't think that driving in the rain would be as much fun as it was, but with the stiffer swaybar it made it pretty entertaining when I chopped the throttle and kicked the back end out! It was also kinda nice leveling the playing field a little with the Miatas

David