Who will be entering ?? What Class? and where are you from ?

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2006 Race Schedule

The following events are scheduled. More to come!

March 25 Las Vegas Superspeedway (“A Mini Vacation in Vegas” event)
April 2 Sebring (full track)
June 10-11 Gateway International Raceway – St. Louis (double-header)
June 29 Summit Point Shenandoah Track (MINI Meet East 2006 event)
TBA Laguna Seca
TBA Carolina Motorsports Park
TBA Another California event

Race Series Tire Sponsor: TBA

Race Series Points System: TBA

Championship Winner: JCW UK and Phil Wicks Racing have an agreement the winner of the North American Mini Cooper Championship Race Series will be invited to race in an official JCW race in the UK – all expenses paid with racecar provided. The winner of the UK championship will come to the US and participate in a Phil Wicks Racing event.
(NOTE: Classic Minis not eligible for UK sponsored race.)

 

The rules have been updated, Roll Bar/cage with bar higher than driver's head, 5 point race restraints. external shut off switch, 2.5 lb fire extinguisher

 

I am putting together a car. It will be a WAY MOTOR WORKS special. I'll be cutting it close to make it to Vegas.

I also am looking for Sponsers, or if anyone would just like to buy a place on the side of my car we can talk.

 

I do believe we'll be there in Las Vegas, running in unlimited. The following weekend we have a USTCC race so I have to plan accordingly. Can't say where its at yet, but will post when offical.

Who else is planning to go to Las Vegas?

 

Seems like new rules and requirements are coming in ....Still no info on tires

www.minidriving.com Race Series

Driver Safety Requirements:
1. Automobile racing helmet with a Snell Foundation 1996 SA or later approval. Full-face helmets are strongly recommended.

2. Driving suit and underwear of fire-retardant material, double-layer Nomex or equivalent.

3. Nomex gloves and Nomex or leather shoes.

4. Head and neck restraints system for a nationally recognized supplier is highly recommended

Race Car Safety Requirement:

1. Roll Bar -- The main roll bar hoop must be higher than the driver's head. The roll bar/roll cage is the entrant and driver's responsibility; but it is recommended to follow SCCA or FIA specifications.

2. Seat Belts -- Minimum of a 5-point racing type seat belt, shoulder harness, and submarine strap is required. The date of manufacture should not exceed 5 years.

3. External Cut-Off Switch -- This switch must cut off electrical power to the engine's ignition system and all fuel pumps

4. Fire Extinguisher -- A minimum of a 2.5 pound BC approved fire extinghisher is required. An on-board fire suppression system is strongly recommended. All extinguishers must be securely mounted within reach of the driver

5. Cars should be presented in a proper finished condition to a high standard, both cosmetically and mechanically. Cars presented at mandatory technical inspection with any damage or primered areas may not participate

6. Driver and front compartment passenger windows must always be completely down.

7. Engine -- The engine must be of the same type and material as originally provided in the year of manufacture. For every car entered, the specific engine displacement must be disclosed in a certified engine builder's or owner's form

Driver Eligibility:

All drivers must have a Competition License issued by Phil Wicks Racing or other recognized licensing body

 

I will know for cetain next week if we can make Las Vegas or not.

I've just returned my 03 MCS to stock so I could sell it, but I may now convert it to run in Class 3.

Please keep posting if more rules appear.

Some ?'s
- seats, can we replace the drivers seat? Wouldn't that fall under safety, although it is a performance advantage.
- tires, tires, tires. are they going to be a spec size as well as a spec tire? I need to know tire sizes to make a decision on brakes. Some suspensions work better with 15's or 16's rather than 17's.
-motor must be stock, no problem. What about transmissions, can you add a Quaife to a pre-05? performance advantage on the tight and twisties.

I just don't want to bring a knife to gun fight.

Bones

 

LSD is OK, Classes are by HP, not points or added goodies
Randy Webb is running Toyo RA1 tires (at least he did at Laguna)
Tranny- Any
Seats-as long as they pass tech, fine

Q: Who the hell knows how much HP there car has anyway? On who's Dyno?

 

I will be running in the JCW/210hp class. I will also be in vegas along with Randy, and maybe a third or even 4th car in the series. I am looking forword to putting NAM names to faces. And just to let you guys know, we are offering class specific packages upton request. We can also maybe work out a discount if you run our graphic.

Counting the days,

-Brian

 

The dyno question is a good one. I'm not sure how they are figuring that, but I know we are safe with Brian's car in 210 - we have done a 15% pulley, a CAI, a GRS top mount intercooler, plugs/wires/coilpack, and a cat-back. We could probably get away with a bit more in fact.

The tires are still up for discussion - I know that Phil was working on a sponsor for the series.

I will definitely be there with the car for unlimited. We are prepping two other cars as well for different classes, in addition to Brian's. Built-by-Bones will be supplying our package cages (he's a Colorado local and a damn good guy).

I'd be interested to hear who plans on running unlimited and what mods are done to tha cars. We are currently planning on running the stock supercharger at the first event. Our car has a WMS CAI, WMS throttle body, WMS 15% pulley, prototype water-air intercooler, Alta 2% crank pulley, WMS cylinder head, plugs/wires/coilpack, WMS header, WMS race exhaust, custom WMS ECU for power upgrades. It runs 225+ at the wheels on a Dynojet, and I really don't think you can get much more than that on a car at operating temp with the stock supercharger.

What are allowed for mods in USTCC?

See you all soon!
Randy

 

I will run 210/JCW ...

I just need a cage or bar that I can still use for everyday driving as well

5 point harness- Lots of those to pick from

Check this out, 2 USA entrants last year ... http://www.miniunited.com/MINIUnited...ry/content.jsp

 

Randy,

I'm the series director for USTCC. Call me - I can answer all your questions about USTCC. I'm wanting to spec one of your intercoolers for USTCC. I also need to talk to you about running at NASA events here in CO.

720 810-4850

Dave Balingit
Regional Director
NASA Rocky Mountain
www.nasarockymountain.com

 

You like this one ?:

 

That's a great shot RED FURY!

Are you gonna hit any of the events this year?

Dave,

It was good talking with you - I got the email and am working up some things. I am definitely interested in running at least one of the USTCC events, and I may still make the March 11 Pueblo event. Thanks for the info!

Randy

 

[quote=RED FURY]Who will be entering ?? What Class? and where are you from ?
I'm also curious as who will signing up and in what clases.
my Car is set up for D-Modified class in the BMWCCA club race series.
I'm in Louisiana and might consider entering in the unlimited class provided there will be enough competition.
Regards,
Paulo, aka Steve Diniz...#53 DM

 

Steve,

What's D-Mod allow? I'm going to be there at every race as long as things go to plan - anyone else???

Randy

 

Randy, here are the BMWCCA rules. D-Mod is on page 35. It's almost unlimited in mods.
I know Steve has done some races in this class, but I'm unsure of his confidence that the Mini is as competative as he says it is. There are some real fast M3s out there that can mod as much as we can in the Mini. Unfortunatly the Mini S gets put in with cars with 2200 to 2980 cc motors because it's supercharged.
Anyway, I hope to find out first hand shortly. Unfortunatly being as far east as can be, it will be unlikely to get out to CA this year.

 

Prepping a car seems to be a PIA, WOW !!!!

 

Randy,
D-Modified class in the BMWCCA rules is foe cars ranging from 2200cc to 2980cc. Just about any degree of modification is allowed, the Mini being supercharged gets a 1.5 multiplyer making it a 2400 cc equivalent. The the key to being competitive requires getting the car as light as possible, good set-up (car has to rotate) and of course as much power as you can get.
My car was very competitive in the J-Prepared class until I qualified on pole in class last year at TWS (9th on grid out of 28 cars). At that point tech decided pulleys were illegal in JP even though Ada Cheung, Per Schroeder (Grass Roots Motorsports) all had raced in JP the previous year with pulleys but were not a threat, so no one noticed.
Up till then, my car was still street legal (not gutted) therfore, I made the decision to go to DM="doesn't matter" what I do. Losing all the extra weight and tuning suspension has made a huge difference....just look at the results from Roebling Road last December, 3rd on grid out of 29 cars behind two CM highly modified cars with high-dollar Euro-spec engines.
Trust me, ther is more potential to be extracted out of this little car.
Regards,
Steve
call me if you would like to discuss details @ 225-953-2742

 

Paulo / Steve

What are you down to, weight-wise. You can PM if you don't want to post here.

 

Post it here. It would nice to here what can be done.

 

Pics and descriptions of the weight saving items would be great too !!!!

Side note: "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges !!" ....LOL

 

Stumbled onto this from the uk site: http://www.minichallenge.co.uk/index...id=37&catid=37

Need new tires? Comon Phil ... Get us a truck of those !!!!!

 

I spoke with Phil Wicks ...

Next year or possibly later this Year:

16" wheels only !!!! - There goes my Big Brake Kit !!!!

Dunlop tires will be a sponsor -which could be purchased at a discount

 

Hmmmmmm

Several things confuse me about this series. There are many run groups within the series, all but vintage Mini's eligable to earn points toward the championship (this is my understanding of the rules). It is too bad a formula for car preperation, simular to what is done in the UK and here with Spec MINI's was not established prior to the launch of the series. I suspect timing was a factor in this. I beleive if this can be done, the series would/will be more of an 'apple to apple" situation. As of now I don't believe the series provides this important aspect.

If there are to be 3 events east and 3 events west with Laguna scheduled for late September, there is limited time to host 2 additional events in the west prior to a champion racing in an October race abroad. There may be an updated schedule I am not aware of which would negate the above.

Also, the cost of transporting a car and travel for crew/driver back and forth across the country is very expensive. If regionally drivers could team up to split some of the cost's that would help a great deal. Regardless to run the full season would be very expensive.

Don't get me wrong. I am deep into racing my MINI and would like this series to become a big success. I hope the grids are full for every event and the races are close. I also hope some firm guidelines are fomulated that are close to existing MINI racing series which would allow for the growth of all MINI racing in the U.S.

Best of luck to all those driving this weekend and to Phil for taking on the challenge of a national race series. I know I will support the series when possible. Laguna last December was great and hopefully an indicator of things to come.